Going Public

In a rare public statement on flight tests, Scaled Composites says a thrust asymmetry caused a tail scrape on the fourth test flight of its WhiteKnightTwo (WK2) mothership for Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo space tourism venture at Mojave, Calif., on Apr. 20. The twin-boom WK2 was performing a touch...

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