1972
Two-seat delta wing canard with a pusher propeller. The first prototype flew in June 1972. ...
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Burt Rutan set up the Rutan Aircraft Factory in 1974 and set about radically altering ...
1975
1978
The Quickie Aircraft Corporation was founded in Mojave, California in 1978 to market the Quickie ...
1979
The Rutan Model 61 Long-EZ is a homebuilt aircraft with a canard layout designed by ...
1982
1986
By the early 1980s there were few aviation records that had not been already set ...
The Model 133-4.62 Advanced Technology Tactical Transport (ATTT) proof-of-concept demonstrator is a 62% scaled version ...
1987
1988
The all-composite Triumph, pressurized 8-seat corporate aircraft, performed its first flight on July 12, 1988 ...
The Model 81 was a project of an all-composite five-seat piston-engined lightplane designed for Beechcraft's ...
1990
The ARES first flew on February 19, 1990. Only one prototype built.
The first prototype flew on November 16, 1996.
1996
The first prototype flew in 1996.
The first prototype flew in 1997.
1997
1998
Twin turbofan high altitude multi mission high altitude aircraft capable of autonomous flight or flying ...
The X-38 is a technology demonstrator for the proposed Crew Return Vehicle, which is designed ...
2000
The A500 was developed from the M-309 CarbonAero technology demonstrator designed by Burt Rutan ...
The Scaled Composites Model 318 White Knight is a jet-powered carrier aircraft used to launch ...
2002
2004
The Scaled Composites Model 311 Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer is an aircraft designed by Burt Rutan ...
Scaled Composites Model 316 SpaceShipOne completed the first privately funded human spaceflight on June 21, ...
