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  1. Stargazer

    LTV / Scaled Composites SOFTA (Special Ops Forces Transport Aircraft) proposals

    The Vought Archive at the University of Texas in Dallas contains quite a strange series of entries: This clearly indicates that Scaled Composites conducted a study in 1991 for the rapid prototyping of a SOFTA aircraft. Strange is the way the XC-142 seems to be associated to the same report...
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    • cold war early 1990s ling-temco-vought post-cold war scaled composites special operations united states united states special operations command us air force special operations command
    • Replies: 63
    • Forum: Secret Postwar Aircraft Projects
  2. Stargazer

    Scaled Composites 355 & Northrop Grumman R02/H03 "Firebird" series

    Keeping in line with his habit of putting out a new aircraft every year or so, Burt Rutan registered two new types in 2010 and 2011. First one is the Scaled Composites LLC Model 355 (N355SX, c/n 001), a fixed wing twin-boom single pusher type certified on 24 Nov 2009 and manufactured in 2010...
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    • 2010s early 2020s northrop grumman optionally manned scaled composites uav united states
    • Replies: 84
    • Forum: Aviation & Space
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    DARPA's RASCAL (Responsive Access, Small Cargo, Affordable Launch) programme

    Another one for the "project cancelled" bin - the Mach 4 aircraft Burt Rutan's Scaled Composites was designing for Space Launch under DARPA's RASCAL (Responsive Access, Small Cargo, Affordable Launch) programme. The aircraft was called the MIPCC Powered Vehicle (MPV) because the four F100...
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    • 2000s bae systems darpa defense advanced research projects agency post-cold war scaled composites single-stage-to-orbit ssto united states war on terror
    • Replies: 27
    • Forum: Secret Space Projects
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