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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 348 White Knight Two (WK2) is a quadjet cargo aircraft that was used to lift the SpaceShipTwo (SS2) spacecraft to release altitude...
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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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    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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    Galactic. SpaceShipTwo was carried to its launch altitude by a Scaled Composites White Knight Two, before being released to fly on into the upper atmosphere...
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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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    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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  • More recently, J85s have powered the Scaled Composites White Knight aircraft, the carrier for the Scaled Composites SpaceShipOne spacecraft, and the Me...
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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 Sierra (Model 401) is an American experimental aircraft, designed and produced by Scaled Composites of Mojave Spaceport, Mojave...
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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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    VMS Eve (category Scaled Composites White Knight Two)
    platform for SpaceShipTwo-class Virgin SpaceShips. VMS Eve was built by Scaled Composites for Virgin Galactic. The aircraft was named after Evette Branson,...
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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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  • 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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    Canada in March 2005. The PW308A has been chosen to power the Scaled Composites White Knight Two, the launch aircraft for Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo...
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    Mojave Air and Space Port (category Scaled Composites)
    dropped from the WhiteKnightTwo VMS Eve carrier aircraft. Scaled Composites co-pilot Michael Alsbury was killed. Scaled Composites pilot Peter Siebold...
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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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  • airship/biplane composites led to the construction of two airborne aircraft carriers, while the British Short Mayo seaplane composite demonstrated successful...
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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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    was a Scaled Composites' 1990sā€“2004 program of suborbital human spaceflight using the reusable spacecraft SpaceShipOne and its launcher White Knight. The...
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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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    (aircraft). Scaled Composites White Knight LauncherOne ā€” Virgin Galactic Rocket Cosmic Girl ā€” LauncherOne Carrier Plane Scaled Composites Stratolaunch...
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  • road in Kentucky, now a freeway; often locally called "the WK" Scaled Composites White Knight, a developmental aircraft WonderKing Online, a popular in-game...
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    with the mother ship once more for the return to Earth. The Scaled Composites White Knight series of aircraft are designed to launch spacecraft which they...
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    aircraft of 1974. Following the success of the Scaled Composites White Knight prototype the White Knight Two is under development, with the first example...
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    Scaled Composites White Knight, a high-altitude research aircraft. On 21 June 2005, the X-37A completed a captive-carry flight underneath the White Knight...
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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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  • 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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    Richard Branson (category Knights Bachelor)
    available to the public with tickets priced at US$200,000 using the Scaled Composites White Knight Two. The spacecraft, SpaceShipTwo, is manufactured by The Spaceship...
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