Mike Melvill is Vice President/General Manager, a Test Pilot and one of 10
owners of Scaled Composites LLC in Mojave, California. He has worked for
Burt Rutan for 27 years, and has 23 years of experience as an experimental
test pilot. He holds an FAA Commercial pilot’s certificate, ASEL,
AMEL, instrument airplane, Rotorcraft-helicopter and Glider. He recently
became the Nation’s first Commercial Astronaut, after flying SpaceShipOne
to above 100 km on June 21st 2004.
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He has accumulated 7050 flight hours in 128 fixed-wing
types, and 12 rotary wing types.
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He is a Fellow of the Society of Experimental Test Pilots.
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He was awarded the IVAN C. KINCHELOE trophy in 1999 by the
SETP for high altitude, developmental flight-testing of the model 281
Proteus aircraft. He was awarded his second IVAN C. KINCHELOE trophy in
2004 by the SETP for his work flight-testing SpaceShipOne.
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He holds NINE World and National speed and altitude
records in Rutan’s Catbird, Proteus and SpaceShipOne aircraft.
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He has flown 10 FIRST flights of Burt Rutan’s aircraft
designs, including Burt’s latest, the SpaceShipOne.
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He built his own Variviggen and Long-EZ homebuilt
aircraft.
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He and Dick Rutan flew their Long-EZ’s around the world in
1997!
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He has been a member of AOPA for 36 years.
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He has been a member of the Experimental Aircraft
Association for 32 years.
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