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    The XCOR EZ-Rocket was a test platform for the XCOR XR-4A3 rocket propulsion system. The airplane was a modified Rutan Long-EZ, with the propeller replaced...
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    XCOR Aerospace modified a Long-EZ and replaced the engine with twin liquid-fueled rocket engines to form a flight test vehicle called the EZ-rocket,...
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    On December 3, 2005, in the XCOR EZ-Rocket, Rutan set the point-to-point distance record for a ground-launched, rocket-powered aircraft, flying 16 km...
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    8, 2000 — First firing of an XCOR Aerospace LOX-powered rocket engine. July 21, 2001 — First flight of the XCOR EZ-Rocket, flown by Dick Rutan (single-engine...
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  • the Rotary Rocket company. In 2001, XCOR designed and built EZ-Rocket, the first privately built and flown rocket-powered airplane. EZ-Rocket made its maiden...
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    the rocket propulsion technology. A fifth model was proposed, but not built, in 2011: the Mark-V X-Racer. XCOR Aerospace developed the XCOR EZ-Rocket, later...
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    companies using pressure-fed engine: OTRAG (rocket) Quad (rocket) of Armadillo Aerospace XCOR EZ-Rocket of XCOR Aerospace Masten Space Systems Aquarius Launch...
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    SpaceShipTwo XCOR Lynx Zero Emission Hyper Sonic Transport Aviation portal Rocketry portal List of rocket aircraft List of vehicle speed records Rocket Racing...
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    Recent examples of rocket glider include the privately funded SpaceShipOne which is intended for sub-orbital flight and the XCOR EZ-Rocket which is being...
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    December 2005, XCOR Aerospace flew its EZ-Rocket (a rocket-powered Long-EZ aircraft the company built as a demonstrator for its reusable rocket engines) from...
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    The XCOR Lynx was a proposed suborbital horizontal-takeoff, horizontal-landing (HTHL), rocket-powered spaceplane that was under development by the California-based...
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  • development for more than a decade, and its predecessor, the XCOR EZ-Rocket experimental rocket powered airplane did actually take flight, but the company...
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  • Institute) Small Eagle 100 (Reanato Xausa) Xausa X-001 (XCOR Aerospace, Mojave, California) XCOR EZ-Rocket XCOR Mark-I X-Racer (Xi'an Aircraft Industrial Corporation)...
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  • Popular Science (feature cover story), 2006-02-15, accessed 2010-09-02. XCOR X-Racer, by Nancy Atkinson, Universe Today, 2009-08-06, accessed 2010-12-11...
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    Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet (category Rocket-powered aircraft)
    a rocket-powered airworthy replica, the Komet II, was proposed by XCOR Aerospace, a former aerospace company that had previously built the XCOR EZ-Rocket...
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    XR-4A3 engines aboard the EZ-Rocket". XCOR Aerospace. Archived from the original on 2010-11-25. Retrieved 2010-12-27. XCOR X-Racer, by Nancy Atkinson...
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    expansion of the EZ-Rocket. He also served as XCOR's only test pilot for a rocket-powered prototype racing aircraft. He made a total of 52 rocket-powered flights...
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  • Atomics RQ-1 Predator B, later redesignated MQ-9 Reaper. July 21 – XCOR EZ-Rocket, flown by Dick Rutan. July 27 – Sukhoi Su-38 May 18 - Dassault Rafale...
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    Jeff Greason (category XCOR Aerospace)
    named Greason an Inventor of the Year in 2002 for his team's work on the EZ-Rocket rocketplane. Greason holds 28 U.S. patents. "NASA - Jeff Greason". "Electric...
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    Deregnaucour 2007 not awarded 2006 not awarded 2005 Dick Rutan, distance, XCOR EZ-Rocket 2004 Robert L. Gibson, speed over a closed course in a Cassutt IIM 2003...
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    SpaceShipTwo (category Rocket-powered aircraft)
    before being released to fly on into the upper atmosphere powered by its rocket engine. It then glided back to Earth and performed a conventional runway...
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    aboard a privately operated commercial spacecraft. In 2014 Binnie joined XCOR Aerospace as senior engineer and test pilot, after working as a test pilot...
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  • SpaceShip III (category Rocket-powered aircraft)
    HL-20 HL-42 Rocketplane XP VentureStar Black Horse NASA X-38 (Spacewedge) XCOR Lynx Xerus Prometheus DARPA XS-1 SpaceShipThree In development Dream Chaser...
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