A number of people have wept over the impending loss of America's space program. Hey guys, all is not lost. The space program has shifted from the government (NASA) to . . . drum roll here . . . . Scaled Composites Company, Burt and Dick Rutan, and the Mojave CIVILIAN space program. Please take a moment to gaze at the following link.
http://www.mojaveairport.com/photovideo/index.htm
This is the real deal. When I was in sales and working for Riggs/LaMoree Corporation and "Scaled Composites Company" happened to be one of my accounts. We were then distributing DuPont products, particularly Mylar polyester films, Kapton polimide films, and Nomex polyamide products. Scaled Composites used all three in the manufacturing of state of the art aerospace products. Their company was then located in Monrovia, CA and much smaller than it is today. As I recall they were housed in an industrial building of about 5,000 sq. ft. My contact there was neither of the Rutan brothers. It was a fellow named Paul McReady. The time-line was between 1960 & 1975. Riggs/LaMoree was, also a distributor for the Dow Corning Corporation, who was then the leading producer of silicone materials for use in electrical, electronic, aerospace and medical applications. Scaled Composites used Dow Corning silicone materials extensively in their prototype shop as flexible molds for airframe structural parts.
Scaled Composites, way back then, was a pioneer in the design and manufacture of high strength carbon fiber based composite structures. This link above shows just how far they have come since those early days.
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