Scaled Composites' White Knight Doubles as Testbed
Credit: MICHAEL A. HALL
It's one of the strangest-looking aircraft in recent aeronautical history, but Scaled Composites' "White Knight" was the ideal vehicle for carrying SpaceShipOne (SSO) to high altitude. Dropped there, SSO ignited its rocket and flew into space and the record books in 2004--twice. Now, the one-of-a...
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