Photographer and filmmaker Jim Sugar has been photographing Burt Rutan and his flying machines since the earliest days of the Rutan Aircraft Factory and Scaled Composites. Further reading ...

Test flight crews for Stratolaunch’s Roc shortened their mission Thursday after a malfunctioning sensor near the airplane’s left elevator on the left fuselage. Stratolaunch, operator of the ...

Long before inventing SpaceShipOne and Voyager—the first aircraft to circle the world nonstop and unrefueled—Burt Rutan revolutionized ... business, Scaled Composites. Rutan’s proof-of ...

Now, two decades later, Burt Rutan, chief designer of the craft at the company Scaled Composites, reflects on that epic day in an exclusive interview with Space.com. Following the flight ...

Greg Morris, president of Scaled Composites, a Mojave aerospace company founded by Burt Rutan, said when he was about 7 he met the aviation pioneer and over the years always found him generous and ...

The six were employed by Scaled Composites, an aerospace development company founded 25 years ago by Burt Rutan, the aerospace engineer who designed the first plane to fly nonstop around the world ...

The honorary prom king of the nerd high school that is Seattle, Paul Allen is quite the overachieve THE NERD KING Most Likely to Space Out: Paul Allen and aerospace engineer Burt Rutan of Scaled ...

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 ...