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BRAB (Burt Rutan AutoBio) Burt is working on an autobiography featuring hundreds of fun-to-read stories – all free to download. This has been Burt’s #1 major project since 2019. BRAB will become an online adventure – unlike the usual autobiography. Tap HERE to preview & contribute to The BRAB Experience. Thousands of BRAB Photos!
1. VariViggen. During Rutan’s first job, as a U.S. Air Force flight test engineer, he designed an airplane for himself inspired by his favorite fighter at the time, the Swedish Saab Viggen, a...
Mar 29, 2017 · 3 minutes. 0. Burt Rutan is one of the most prolific aerospace engineers in all of human history. He is most famous for his design of the Voyager aircraft, the first plane to fly around the...
Sep 20, 2009 · The Unconventional Burt Rutan. In a career that has flouted convention, Burt Rutan made advances to the stall-resistant canard wing and designed SpaceShipOne, the first privately funded aircraft to achieve suborbital flight. by Peter Garrison 9/20/2009.
Long before inventing SpaceShipOne and Voyager— the first aircraft to circle the world nonstop and unrefueled—Burt Rutan revolutionized the practice of homebuilding airplanes with a...
Jun 11, 2018 · June 17, 1943 • Portland, Oregon. Aerospace engineer. Burt Rutan designed the first privately financed spacecraft to carry an ordinary citizen into space. On a June morning in 2004, Rutan's innovative SpaceShipOne rose from the Mojave Desert in California, flown by test pilot Mike Melvill (c. 1942 – ), climbed through the clouds, and entered space.
TED Speaker. In 2004, legendary spacecraft designer Burt Rutan won the $10M Ansari X-Prize for SpaceShipOne, the first privately funded craft to enter space twice in a two-week period. He's now collaborating with Virgin Galactic to build the first rocketship for space tourism.
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