Paul Allen's space company nears debut of world's biggest plane

Almost completed: The Vulcan Aerospace's Stratolaunch rockets wing assembly is shown under construction by Northrop Grumann Scaled Composites at the Mojave Air and Space Port .

MOJAVE: A space launch company bankrolled by Microsoft Corp co-founder Paul Allen intends to compete with space entrepreneurs and industry stalwarts by launching satellites into orbit from the world’s biggest airplane.

Stratolaunch Systems, a unit of Allen’s privately owned Vulcan Aerospace, last week gave a small group of reporters a first look at the nearly finished aircraft.