Mojave's thriving aerospace community spawns home-built airplane hobbyists

It took 2 ½ years for Scaled Composites engineer Justin Gillen to build his Tango 2 plane. By day, Justin Gillen works on a satellite-launching aircraft with a wingspan longer than a football field. But in his spare time, the Scaled Composites project engineer tinkered for 2 ½ years with his hobby: a Tango 2 airplane, which isn't much larger than an SUV. Now Gillen flies the plane — which

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