WASHINGTON — Northrop Grumman subsidiary Scaled Composites debuted a new experimental aircraft, Model 401, in an Oct. 11 announcement of the prototype’s recent first flight. The company has built two ...

Scaled Composites' Model 401, a unique experimental aircraft, completed its first flight. Designed for a confidential customer, the aircraft features unconventional wing and tail designs aimed at ...

Scaled Composites, LLC made aviation history today with the flight of the largest wingspan aircraft. During this initial flight, the team tested out specific handling qualities to validate the design.

Scaled Composites Model 401 experimental plane has completed its maiden flight. The aircraft, which was developed in secret by the wholly owned Northrop Grumman subsidiary for an unnamed client, took ...

Gyronautics company Skyworks is teaming up with Northrop Grumman subsidiary Scaled Composites to build a prototype of its VertiJet vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft, the companies announced Monday ...

Scaled Composites has flown a new experimental aircraft called the Model 401. It has new features, including signature reduction design features. It is similar to the General Atomics Predator C ...

To All NSS Members and Friends: As many of you have heard, there was a serious accident last week at Scaled Composites, Burt Rutan’s pioneering company. Three lives were lost, including Charles ‘Glen’ ...

Mojave, California-based Scaled Composites has taken a major leap in the development of the massive Stratolaunch program. The world’s largest aircraft (by wingspan) took to the tarmac this weekend, ...

Ben Diachun, 42, is president of Scaled Composites, the Burt Rutan-founded aerospace design and manufacturing firm based in Mojave, Calif. The company is known for creating unconventional aircraft ...

Northrop Grumman Corp.'s Scaled Composites subsidiary has unveiled and flown its latest experimental aircraft with more test flights to come, the company announced this week. The Mojave, ...

Scaled Composites could still face a criminal or civil prosecution over the explosion that occurred on 26 July 2007 killing three of its employees. The California Occupational Safety and Health ...

When Paul Allen founded Stratolaunch in 2011, the hope was to make access to space cheaper and faster. The company’s massive carrier aircraft, the largest plane by wingspan ever to be built, would be ...