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    The Scaled Composites Model 348 White Knight Two (WK2) is a quadjet cargo aircraft that was used to lift the SpaceShipTwo (SS2) spacecraft to release...
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    The Scaled Composites Model 318 White Knight (now also called White Knight One) is a jet-powered carrier aircraft that was used to launch its companion...
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    The Scaled Composites Model 351 Stratolaunch or Roc is an aircraft built by Scaled Composites for Stratolaunch Systems to carry air-launch-to-orbit (ALTO)...
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    owned by Virgin Galactic. SpaceShipTwo was carried to its launch altitude by a Scaled Composites White Knight Two, before being released to fly on into...
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  • Scaled Composites (often called simply Scaled) is an American aerospace company founded by Burt Rutan and currently owned by Northrop Grumman. It is located...
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  • launch Scaled Composites SpaceShipOne Scaled Composites White Knight Two, the technological successor of the first Posnansky/Fronius PF-1 White Knight, a...
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    The Scaled Composites Model 281 Proteus is a tandem-wing high-altitude long-endurance aircraft designed by Burt Rutan to investigate the use of aircraft...
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    was a Scaled Composites' 1990s–2004 program of suborbital human spaceflight using the reusable spacecraft SpaceShipOne and its launcher White Knight. The...
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    VMS Eve (category Scaled Composites White Knight Two)
    Galactic and launch platform for SpaceShipTwo-class Virgin SpaceShips. VMS Eve was built by Scaled Composites for Virgin Galactic. The aircraft was named...
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    The Scaled Composites Sierra (Model 401) is an American experimental aircraft, designed and produced by Scaled Composites of Mojave Spaceport, Mojave...
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    has been chosen to power the Scaled Composites White Knight Two, the launch aircraft for Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo. Unscheduled interventions went...
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  • Scaled Composites Model 133-4.62 ATTT, or Advanced Technology Tactical Transport was a technology demonstration project built by Burt Rutan's Scaled Composites...
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    The Scaled Composites ARES is a demonstrator aircraft built by Scaled Composites. ARES is an acronym for Agile Responsive Effective Support. In 1981, U...
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  • The Scaled Composites Model 367 BiPod is an experimental flying car developed by Scaled Composites. It was the final aircraft designed by Burt Rutan prior...
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    The Scaled Composites Triumph is a twin-engine, business jet prototype designed and built by Burt Rutan's Scaled Composites for Beechcraft. It was known...
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    Knight One and Two On July 28, 2008, Richard Branson unveiled Scaled Composites White Knight Two Eve, at the Mojave Spaceport. The jet-powered cargo aircraft...
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    The Scaled Composites Model 81 Catbird is a high-efficiency five-seat single-engine all-composite general aviation aircraft designed by Burt Rutan. It...
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    registration N339SS, was the sole Scaled Composites Model 339 SpaceShipTwo test vehicle. It was the first of the five SpaceShipTwo craft planned by Virgin Galactic...
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    SpaceShipOne flight 17P (category Scaled Composites Tier One program)
    carried as on flight 16P: Scaled Composites "SpaceShipOne: a Paul G. Allen project" on SpaceShipOne "White Knight" on White Knight Virgin Galactic, on the...
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    The Scaled Composites Pond Racer (Company designation Model 158) was a twin-engine twin-boom aircraft developed for Bob Pond by Burt Rutan and his company...
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  • Mojave Aerospace Ventures (category Scaled Composites)
    is in turn owned by Allen (the majority shareholder) and Rutan's Scaled Composites. In 2004, it signed a deal with Virgin Galactic to develop the Virgin...
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    "White Knight". Both craft were developed and flown by Mojave Aerospace Ventures, which was a joint venture between Paul Allen and Scaled Composites,...
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    The Scaled Composites Model 311 Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer (registered N277SF) is an aircraft designed by Burt Rutan in which Steve Fossett first flew...
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  • orbital velocity. The carrier aircraft is projected to be a Scaled Composites White Knight Two. First-stage: 38 feet (12 m) length, 19 feet (5.8 m) wingspan...
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    LauncherOne (redirect from NewtonTwo)
    configuration was proposed to be an expendable, two-stage, liquid-fueled rocket air-launched from a White Knight Two carrier aircraft. This would make it a similar...
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    Richard Branson (category Knights Bachelor)
    with tickets priced at US$200,000 using the Scaled Composites White Knight Two. The spacecraft, SpaceShipTwo, is manufactured by The Spaceship Company,...
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  • File formats .wk2 file extension of Lotus 1-2-3 Products Scaled Composites White Knight Two Fourth Generation Jeep Grand Cherokee (WK2), 2011–present...
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    SpaceShipOne flight 16P (category Scaled Composites Tier One program)
    White Knight bore several logos for the flight. These were: Scaled Composites "SpaceShipOne: a Paul G. Allen project" on SpaceShipOne "White Knight" on...
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    Mike Melvill (category Scaled Composites)
    July 12, 2012. Retrieved July 3, 2012. "Scaled Composites: combined white knight spaceshipone flight tests". Scaled.com. Archived from the original on August...
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  • The Spaceship Company (category Scaled Composites)
    build three WhiteKnightTwo aircraft and five SpaceShipTwo rocket planes. Since the first WK2 and the first SS2 were built by Scaled Composites, TSC had responsibility...
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