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Elbert Leander "Burt" Rutan (/ ˈ r uː t ən /; born June 17, 1943) is a retired American aerospace engineer and entrepreneur noted for his originality in designing light, strong, unusual-looking, and energy-efficient air and space craft.
Winner of the Presidential Citizen’s Medal, the Charles A. Lindbergh Award, two Collier Trophies and included on Time Magazine’s “100 most influential people in the world,” Rutan is the founder of SCALED Composites, the most aggressive aerospace research company in the world.
May 4, 2024 · Burt Rutan (born June 17, 1943, Portland, Oregon, U.S.) is an American aircraft and spacecraft designer who was perhaps best known for SpaceShipOne, which in 2004 became the first private crewed spacecraft.
Thousands of BRAB Photos! Right now (as of Mar 30, 2024), we have a massive collection of photos (nearing 5 thousand) for you to view in One Gallery per Chapter for most of the 90 BRAB Chapters. In recent months, Burt carefully curated all these BRAB photos – organizing them into Chapters & logically ordering them within each Chapter.
Rutan’s 31st airplane, the mantis-like Proteus is multi-mission but one of a kind. Invented as a broadband tower in the sky, it has flown instead as a high-altitude (above 60,000 feet) research...
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 700-pound,...
Mar 9, 2024 · BRAB (Burt Rutan AutoBio) will be so full of content (including many charts, photos & videos) that it can’t be contained in a printed book (see Table of Contents). This web-based app will deliver all of Burt’s autobiography content to your computer or mobile device.
Oct 11, 2023 · Nearly 50 years ago, Burt Rutan turned the experimental aircraft community on its head with the VariViggen, a two-seat pusher aircraft with a canard hanging out in front. In 2004, he broke the...
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.
Dec 23, 2011 · Voyager, the ultimate homebuilt, was the brainchild of unconventional designer Burt Rutan and two record-setting pilots, his brother Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager. Six years from initial conception on a napkin, as the story goes, to completion of the flight two days before Christmas in 1986, this trio successfully proved that lots of hard work ...
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