As lead for the Firebird program, Northrop Grumman developed the unmanned systems architecture, control and mission systems. The company chose Scaled Composites to design, build and test the ...

COLORADO SPRINGS—California-based Scaled Composites has reactivated its ... Scaled Revives Old School ‘Firebird’ Development Testbed is published in Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, an ...

Northrop Grumman has entered a new vehicle in the red-hot field of military reconnaissance with its Firebird UAV, built by Scaled Composites. And this one can fly with or without a pilot.

Meanwhile, Scaled Composites' SpaceShipTwo is in the middle of glide tests. If all goes well, it'll take its first gaggle of gawkers into orbit some time in 2012. Firebird isn't Scaled's first ...

In the last decade, Scaled Composites has unveiled several new research aircraft, including the BiPod and Firebird aircraft. But the company is also known for designing ground-breaking designs ...

Scaled Composites is a Mojave, Calif.-based subsidiary of Northrop Grumman. The company developed the initial SpaceShipTwo for Virgin Galactic, VSS Enterprise, a spaceship design for taking ...

Meanwhile, Scaled Composites’ SpaceShipTwo is in the middle of glide tests. If all goes well, it’ll take its first gaggle of gawkers into orbit some time in 2012. Update 1:27 p.m.: Firebird ...

Northrop Grumman leads the Firebird program with teammate Scaled Composites – the aircraft innovation firm founded by famed engineer Burt Rutan who designed SpaceShipOne, the first privately ...

Scaled Composites is best known for creating commercial ... The company has joined forces with Northrop Grumman to build the Firebird, a flexible new plane that's a veritable surveillance Swiss ...

the optionally piloted Scaled Composites Firebird; a manned Model 401 with a radome over the canopy to represent the UAS version; a scaled-model of the Model 437 concept; and an MQ-4C Triton.