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Rutan Variviggen Rutan Variviggen

1972

Two-seat delta wing canard with a pusher propeller. The first prototype flew in June 1972. Further development of these ideas ...

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Burt Rutan set up the Rutan Aircraft Factory in 1974 and set about radically altering the format of home-build light ...

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Rutan VariEze

1975

Rutan VariEze

Rutan Model 40/74 Defiant Rutan Model 40/74 Defiant

1978

The first prototype flew on June 30, 1978. A total of 200 aircraft sets were sold.

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The Quickie Aircraft Corporation was founded in Mojave, California in 1978 to market the Quickie homebuilt aircraft (models Quickie, Quickie ...

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Rutan Quickie

1978

Rutan Quickie

Rutan Model 61 LongEZ Rutan Model 61 LongEZ

1979

The Rutan Model 61 Long-EZ is a homebuilt aircraft with a canard layout designed by Burt Rutan's Rutan Aircraft Factory. ...

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Rutan Model 72 Grizzly

1982

Rutan Model 72 Grizzly

Scaled Composites "Voyager" Scaled Composites "Voyager"

1986

By the early 1980s there were few aviation records that had not been already set or achieved. The Rutan Voyager ...

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The Model 133-4.62 Advanced Technology Tactical Transport (ATTT) proof-of-concept demonstrator is a 62% scaled version of an airplane designed to ...

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Scaled Composites ATTT

1987

Scaled Composites ATTT

Scaled Composites Model 143 "Triumph" Scaled Composites Model 143 "Triumph"

1988

The all-composite Triumph, pressurized 8-seat corporate aircraft, performed its first flight on July 12, 1988 .

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The Model 81 was a project of an all-composite five-seat piston-engined lightplane designed for Beechcraft's research and development department , ...

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Rutan Model 81 Catbird

1988

Rutan Model 81 Catbird

Scaled Composites Model 151 ARES Scaled Composites Model 151 ARES

1990

The ARES first flew on February 19, 1990. Only one prototype built.

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The first prototype flew in 1997.

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Scaled Composites "V-Jet II"

1997

Scaled Composites "V-Jet II"

Scaled Composites "Proteus" Scaled Composites "Proteus"

1998

Twin turbofan high altitude multi mission high altitude aircraft capable of autonomous flight or flying with two pilots and one ...

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The A500 was developed from the M-309 CarbonAero technology demonstrator designed by Burt Rutan and built by Scaled Composites ...

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Scaled Composites M-309 CarbonAero

2000

Scaled Composites M-309 CarbonAero

Scaled Composites Model 318 White Knight Scaled Composites Model 318 White Knight

2002

The Scaled Composites Model 318 White Knight is a jet-powered carrier aircraft used to launch the SpaceShipOne experimental spacecraft. ...

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Scaled Composites Model 316 SpaceShipOne completed the first privately funded human spaceflight on June 21, 2004. ### SpaceShipOne was an experimental air-launched ...

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Scaled Composites Model 316 SpaceShipOne

2004

Scaled Composites Model 316 SpaceShipOne

Scaled Composites Model 348 White Knight Two Scaled Composites Model 348 White Knight Two

2008

The Model 348 White Knight Two (WK2) is a quadjet cargo aircraft that is used to lift the SpaceShipTwo spacecraft ...

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The Model 339 SpaceShipTwo is an air-launched suborbital spaceplane designed for space tourism. It is carried to its launch altitude ...

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Scaled Composites Model 339 SpaceShipTwo

2013

Scaled Composites Model 339 SpaceShipTwo

Scaled Composites Model 351 Stratolaunch Scaled Composites Model 351 Stratolaunch

2019

The Model 351 Stratolaunch is an aircraft built for Stratolaunch Systems by Scaled Composites to carry air-launch-to-orbit rockets. The twin-fuselage ...

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