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Dick Rutan. Awards. See below. Website. burtrutan .com. Elbert Leander " Burt " Rutan ( / ˈruːtən /; 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.
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Learn about Burt Rutan, the visionary leader of SCALED Composites and the designer of SpaceShipOne, the world's first privately-built manned spacecraft to win the Ansari X-Prize. Discover his achievements in aviation, his passion for technology and his vision for the future of space tourism and aviation.
May 4, 2024 · Burt Rutan, American aircraft and spacecraft designer who was perhaps best known for SpaceShipOne, which in 2004 became the first private crewed spacecraft. Learn more about Rutan’s life and career, including his other notable aerospace vehicles, including the Voyager.
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...
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- 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 Mach 2 delta-wing craft that used a canard to increase its lift on takeoff and landing.
- VariEze. Rutan reasoned that an airplane that wouldn’t stall would be far less likely to crash, and the continuing quest for stall resistance led him to the canard design of the VariEze, which was also the first airplane to fly with winglets (to counter drag created by wingtip vortices).
- VariViggen SP. The 1975 VariViggen earned the suffix SP (special performance) because it doubled the range of the original. Rutan did it by increasing the wing area and making it and the rudder of lighter-weight foam and fiberglass instead of aluminum—and by adding fuel tanks in the wing and attached to the belly.
- VariEze Homebuilt. After the VariEze created a sensation at the Experimental Aircraft Association’s Oshkosh, Wisconsin fly-in, Rutan enlarged it (every dimension changed), redesigned it for a 100-horsepower Continental airplane engine, and, doing business as the Rutan Aircraft Factory, started selling plans, based on the step-by-step instructions of Simplicity dress patterns.
Sep 20, 2009 · Learn about Burt Rutan's life and achievements, from his early experiments with homebuilt airplanes to his groundbreaking designs of SpaceShipOne and Voyager. Discover how he challenged the status quo and revolutionized the field of commercial spaceflight.
Jun 11, 2018 · Learn about Burt Rutan, the aerospace engineer who designed the first privately financed spacecraft to carry an ordinary citizen into space. Find out how he started building model airplanes as a child, founded his own company, and created innovative designs for light aircraft and spacecraft.
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