Spaceship firm to expand

L.A. Daily News ^ | 03/14/05 | Jim Skeen

[KevinDavis]

MOJAVE -- SpaceShipOne-builder Scaled Composites expects to expand this year, adding a new hangar and, if all goes well, about 70 new employees.

Famed aircraft designer Burt Rutan's company is expanding in part because of its spacecraft work for billionaire airline owner Sir Richard Branson, but Scaled Composites also has other projects.

[KevinDavis]

Cool.....

[KevinDavis]

[Tench_Coxe]

Definitely has my imagination going.

[Boundless]

In other Scaled news ...

Unmanned jet used in mock bomb drop
http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200%257E20943%257E2762404,00.html

"Northrop Grumman used Scaled Composite's Proteus
jet to drop a 500-pound dummy bomb in a test for a
medium-altitude, long-endurance unmanned aircraft."

[Brett66]

Best news I've heard in a while.

[KevinDavis]

Burt has the smarts..

[HardStarboard]

Put me on the list!

Burt Rutan has combined tremendous technical and engineering talent with entrepreneurship and a healthy dose of boyish enthusiasm that has put his accomplishments among to most fun things to watch on, and off, this earth.

[Captain Beyond]

This is great. Hopefully others will follow his lead and start to follow their dreams.

[JasonC]

I know bright kids at MIT dropping everything to intern with this crowd. They can pick whatever talent they want.

[af_vet_rr]

I know bright kids at MIT dropping everything to intern with this crowd

I'm not a kid anymore, but if they need somebody to sweep the hangars or help prevent FOD, I would gladly go :-)

Working for Burt Rutan would be the only reason I could think of, for moving out to California.