Scaled Composites Modifies SpaceShipOne for Improved Stability
Scaled Composites has added a large strake and a tail fence in the first steps to fix a pitch hangup on its SpaceShipOne rocket plane, and will fly further changes in upcoming flight tests. The gliding spacecraft was designed primarily with computational fluid dynamics (CFD), but following the...
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