Composites

Now, Branson's partner, Bert Rutan of California-based Scaled Composites, is in the latter phases of developing the two-stage Virgin Galactic craft that will take off from a Spaceport America runway.

Reader's Consensus: Develop a new launch vehicle - NASA Watch 2009

By the spring of 1997 Rutan's company, Scaled Composites, which is in the Mojave Desert, had created a flying model, called the V-Jet II.

Freedom of the Skies 2001

By the spring of 1997 Rutan's company, Scaled Composites, which is in the Mojave Desert, had created a flying model, called the V-Jet II.

Freedom of the Skies 2001

Mr. Rutan said that Scaled Composites, which is tiny compared with companies like Boeing and Airbus, will able to build such a huge airplane because it is only designing and building the airframe.

NYT > Global Home By KENNETH CHANG 2011

Mr. Rutan said that Scaled Composites, which is tiny compared with companies like Boeing and Airbus, will able to build such a huge airplane because it is only designing and building the airframe.

NYT > Home Page By KENNETH CHANG 2011

Mr. Rutan said that Scaled Composites, which is tiny compared with companies like Boeing and Airbus, will able to build such a huge airplane because it is only designing and building the airframe.

NYT > Home Page By KENNETH CHANG 2011

In February 2010, Romney spoke in Las Vegas at a convention called Composites for a manufacturing association.

TIME.com: Top Stories Erin McPike 2010

Associates, which produces an advanced membrane for high efficiency fuel cells, and TPI Composites, which is investing in a new facility to manufacture wind turbine blades.

Purchasing - Top Stories 2010

"Ray K. Metzker: Light Lines" by William Ewing (Steidl and Musée d'Elysée, 286 pages, $65) is the largest survey yet of pictures that, at their finest, as in his extraordinary "Composites" series, are as intricate and well-built as a Swiss watch.

Windows on a Wide World 2008

The glide flight is a critical first step for the team at Scaled Composites which is building the space ship for Virgin Galactic.

Wired Top Stories Jason Paur 2010