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Description: Scaled Composites, LLC is an aerospace and specialty composites development company located in Mojave, California (about 80 miles north of Los Angeles). Founded in 1982 by Burt Rutan, Scaled has broad experience in air vehicle design, tooling, manufacturing, specialty composite structure design, analysis, fabrication and developmental flight test. Scaled Composites designed SpaceShipOne, the first private manned mission to space, and the GlobalFlyer, a single-pilot airplane designed to make the first solo, nonstop, unrefueled flight around the world.

Posted: 11/30/04

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