Paul Allen And Burt Rutan Launch Stratolaunch Systems, Plan To Build World?s Largest Aircraft

Having conquered the terrestrial realm, today's big money is looking to the skies for new regions to subjugate. And what was a lark ten years ago now appears to be a common hobby among a certain ambitious type of mogul not given to the habit of collecting megayachts. Their millions have produced results, however, and while the shuttles have been retiring, the private space ships have been making flight after flight. Paul Allen and Burt Rutan worked together on the original SpaceShipOne, part of a challenge to build a reliable extra-atmospheric aircraft. The design has been refined and (to an extent) commercialized by Virgin Galactic, but Allen and Rutan want to make an entirely new aircraft. And they're not modest about their ambition: Stratolaunch Systems, their new venture, aims to create the largest aircraft ever flown. How's that for a mission statement?

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