5-6, 2025. In addition to the flight exhibitions, a host of aircraft were on static display. Among these were two unconventional aircraft, the Model 281 Proteus and a Model 401 Sierra of Scaled ...

Among these were two unconventional aircraft, the Model 281 Proteus and a Model 401 Sierra of Scaled Composites. “Proteus and the 401s have been doing incredibly important work for many years ...

Last October, Scaled Composites pilots Mike Melville and Bob Waldmiller took off from the civilian flight test center at California’s Mojave airport in the twin-jet Proteus and set three ...

IN THE PRE-DAWN DARKNESS of California’s Mojave Spaceport, a group of employees from Burt Rutan’s Scaled Composites assembles in a hangar around the twin-engine Proteus aircraft, a Rutan design.