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	Burt Rutan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rutan is married to his fourth wife, Tonya Rutan.
		Rutan struck out on his own in June of 1974 with the creation of the Rutan Aircraft Factory in the Mojave Desert, where he designed and developed prototypes for a number of aircraft, mostly homebuilt.
		Over the years Burt Rutan has designed hundreds of aircraft, including the now-famous Voyager, which was piloted by Dick, his brother, and Jeana Yeager in 1986 on a recordbreaking nine-day non-stop flight around the world.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Burt_Rutan (678 words)

	Entrepreneur of the Year
		Rutan managed to send human beings out of the atmosphere without the benefit of an army of engineers and hundreds of millions of dollars in government funds.
		Rutan showed Gionta several sketches, and one in particular caught Gionta's eye: It showed the large aircraft with a smaller, rocket-powered craft latched to its belly.
		Rutan thought up a simplified design for a rocket motor and contracted its manufacturing out to SpaceDev, a company in Poway, Calif., that had developed rocket motors that burn a relatively easy-to-control mixture of liquid laughing gas and rubber, producing a full ton of thrust.
	www.inc.com /magazine/20050101/eoty-rutan.html (4349 words)

	Rutan Aircraft Designs
		Rutan's most expensive project, the Beech Starship was just one in a series of experimental and unique aircraft designs that are his trademark.
		Rutan's creative vision led to the formation of his own Rutan Aircraft Factory in 1974 to design and market innovative canard designs for home-built light aircraft such as the VariEze and the Long-EZ.
		Burt Rutan expanded his successful experiments with composite materials to larger-scale projects with the formation of Scaled Composites, Inc., in 1982, for the design, fabrication, and flight testing of prototype aircraft projects for both the government and private industry.
	www.centennialofflight.gov /essay/GENERAL_AVIATION/rutan/GA15.htm (1156 words)

	Spaceflight Now \| Breaking News \| Rutan unveils manned suborbital spacecraft
		Rutan would not disclose when he would select a winning design, but a source with one of the competing companies said that a decision would likely come late this year.
		Rutan, fighting laryngitis during his speech, said he is developing this private spacecraft now in the hopes of igniting a "renaissance" in spacecraft development similar to the one seen in aviation between 1909-1912.
		Rutan hinted that the first phase of the flight test program, captive carry test flights where SpaceShipOne is carried aloft under White Knight but not released, would begin in the very near future, with glide tests taking place afterwards in the next few months.
	www.spaceflightnow.com /news/n0304/22rutan (1391 words)

	Rutan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dick Rutan, test pilot, and brother of Burt Rutan
		The Rutan Aircraft Factory, a defunct company founded by Burt Rutan, whose expertise was folded into his second company, Scaled Composites
		This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rutan (119 words)

	Rutan VariEze
		Rutan's VariViggen bears more than an accidental resemblance to a Swedish military jet fighter, the SAAB J-37 Viggen, which first appeared during a press preview in 1965 and helped to inspire Rutan to create a canard airplane of his own design.
		Rutan was eager to use N7EZ to explore further the performance of the canard layout.
		Rutan surveyed the builders in April 1978 and discovered that the average, finished airplane was 14-23 kg (30-50 lb) heavier than specified in the plans.
	www.nasm.si.edu /research/aero/aircraft/rutan_eze.htm (1643 words)

	USATODAY.com - Rutan: Regulations hinder progress of space tourism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Rutan was one of a group experts in the emerging commercial space market to testify before lawmakers.
		Rutan said that the FAA is already in short supply of people to maintain its regulatory vigil over the airline industry.
		There will be large cabins and big windows, Rutan explained, all for the benefit of the free-floating passenger so he or she can fully experience four-to-five minutes of weightless time.
	www.usatoday.com /tech/science/space/2005-04-21-rutan-on-space-tourism_x.htm?csp=34 (965 words)

	Richard G. “Dick” Rutan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Rutan was born in 1938 in Loma Linda, California, and has loved aviation since he was a child.
		Rutan was the top graduate of his class at Laughlin AFB, Texas, and in 1967 fulfilled his dream to fly the F-100.
		Rutan was awarded a Presidential Citizens Medal, the Collier Trophy, the Order of Daedalians Distinguished Achievement Award, and was inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame in July 2002.
	www.au.af.mil /au/goe/eaglebios/03bios/rutan03.htm (541 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Science -- Sky-high ambition
		Rutan has received dozens of awards for designs that bear his characteristic styling, which is to say a Rutan aircraft looks like it flew in from another planet.
		Rutan was among the first to popularize the use of short forewings, or canards, near the nose that help prevent a plane from stalling and "winglets" that bend up at the tips of wings to improve lift and reduce drag.
		Rutan often points out that there were fewer than a dozen pilots in the five years after Wilbur and Orville Wright made their historic flight at Kitty Hawk.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/science/20040614-9999-1n14rutan.html (1559 words)

	A vision in flight
		Burt Rutan may have secured his place in space flight history last Oct. 4, when SpaceShipOne captured the Ansari X-Prize of $10 million by flying with a pilot and enough ballast for a passenger beyond the atmosphere, within two weeks of having done it before.
		Rutan's people also developed their own rocket technology, where "the fuel is rubberand laughing gas - nothing dangerous." The cabin is also not pressurized.
		Rutan believes if space flight is safe, the money will be there; his own situation tends to bear him out.
	www.lewrockwell.com /ocregister/vision-in-flight.html (1238 words)

	…My heart’s in Accra » Burt Rutan’s new “Space Race”
		Rutan was asked to make a list of the pioneers of aviation - every one was a child during the “renaissance” of flight from 1908 - 1912.
		Rutan was born during a jump in aircraft performace, a moment when it looked like airplanes might be able to go orders of magnitude faster than they go today.
		Rutan’s goal with Spaceship One is to make sub-orbital space travel as safe as “the early airlines”.
	www.ethanzuckerman.com /blog?p=402 (578 words)

	Burt Rutan Chides NASA for Dullness, Says Space should be Fun
		In accepting the award, Rutan launched into a criticism of the nation's current state of spaceflight, apologizing to the audience beforehand lest he insult employees of NASA or prime aerospace industry employees.
		Rutan voiced the frustration that the big aerospace companies are wasting taxpayers time and money repeatedly testing spaceflight technologies that have changed relatively little over the last 40 years.
		Rutan's overarching message was that since the end of the Apollo era, progress in human spaceflight technologies have become stagnant, with an over-reliance on technologies that are not too different today than they were from their predecessors in the 1960s.
	www.space.com /news/050519_nss_rutan.html (639 words)

	CNN - Weather delays launch of Rutan's balloon - January 2, 1998
		Rutan is best known as one of the pilots of the Voyager, a plane that he and Jeana Yeager flew around the world without landing or refueling.
		Rutan says he is not worried that Chicago balloonist Steve Fossett has a head start in a competition sponsored by the Anheuser-Busch Co. The St. Louis brewery is offering $500,000 to the first team to fly a balloon around the world without landing.
		Rutan's 8-foot-diameter capsule, a carbon fiber sphere with five inches of foam insulation, is pressurized.
	www.cnn.com /US/9801/02/rutan.balloon (389 words)

	Burt Rutan
		Burt Rutan is a test pilot and aircraft designer whose designs have caught attention for their exceptional performance and novel construction.
		Rutan's knowledge of high performance planes was garnered first hand in the Air Force where, from 1965 to 1972, he was Flight Test Pilot Engineer at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
		Rutan has received a number of awards for his work including the Chrysler Award for Innovation in Design, "Engineer of the Year" by Design News, the British Gold Medal for Aeronautics, the Collier Trophy, the Presidential Citizen's Medal (presented by Ronald Reagan in 1986), and the 2000 Lindbergh Award by the Lindbergh Foundation.
	www.nndb.com /people/234/000030144 (446 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Science/Nature \| Rutan ready to realise vision
		As a child, Rutan was also surrounded by a furious debate about possible man-made canals and intelligent life on Mars.
		But Rutan believes the space agency should have worked the capability harder into a programme in the early 70s, instead of concentrating on beating the Russians to the Moon.
		Rutan hopes there is local life on other planets, because it would be fun to do what holidaymakers do: "interface them".
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/science/nature/3676312.stm (1050 words)

	RedOrbit - Space - Back to the Future Rutan to Return to Space (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Rutan is mostly disinterested in talking to the news media, unlike older brother, Dick, who after piloting Voyager around the world ran for Congress and Kern County supervisor.
		Rutan sold Scaled to Beech Aircraft Corp. in 1985, then bought it back again with investors in 2001 after it was put up for sale by a Portland corporation that had acquired Beech in a merger.
		At the spacecraft's unveiling, Rutan said he hoped his success would spur the same sort of innovation and experimentation that occurred after the Wright brothers flew their airplane in Paris in 1909.
	www.redorbit.com /news/display?id=89686 (1130 words)

	Dick Rutan, Jeana Yeager, and the Flight of the Voyager
		Rutan and his teammate David Melton began preparing for the journey when they learned that the Anheuser-Busch Company was offering $1 million to the first team of balloonists who could successfully circumnavigated the world, nonstop.
		In 1998, Rutan and Melton set out on what they believed would be a record-setting journey, but only three hours into their flight, a helium cell ruptured in their balloon and they had to abandon their trip.
		Rutan and Yeager not only established a couple of world records with the Voyager but also tested the psychological and physiological capabilities of humans under extreme pressure.
	www.centennialofflight.gov /essay/Explorers_Record_Setters_and_Daredevils/rutan/EX32.htm (1480 words)

	Wired News: SpaceShipOne Countdown Starts
		Rutan said his team, officially dubbed American Mojave Aerospace Ventures, is planning three flights in the two-week prize window ending Oct. 13.
		Rutan said the second flight -- which if successful could win the $10 million jackpot -- could take place as early as Oct. 4, the date the Soviet Union launched Sputnik in 1957.
		Rutan said the first flight, considered an "envelope-expansion" flight that will be carrying a heavier payload and more fuel than the June flight, will carry only a pilot and weight equivalent to two passengers.
	www.wired.com /news/space/0,2697,64361,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_2 (881 words)

	Money - A Rutan & Tucker century
		Now, Rutan and Tucker is a regional, full-service law firm with 145 lawyers and satellite offices in Palo Alto.
		Rutan and Tucker was honored Friday for its heritage and achievements at the annual South Coast Metro Alliance luncheon.
		In 2004, the Public Law Center recognized Rutan and Tucker as "Law Firm of the Year." Several of the firm's lawyers have served on the center's board of directors, and many have taken pro bono cases, said Bruce Allen, Rutan's chief marketing officer.
	www.ocregister.com /ocregister/money/homepage/article_958763.php (718 words)

	Private manned space plane unveiled - The New Space Race - MSNBC.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		However, one key element of Rutan’s plan was to build a launch plane that had the same aerodynamics and electronics as the spacecraft.
		Rutan said his interest was in pushing forward the largely stagnant effort to build new manned platforms, and to give a kick in the pants to the space industry.
		Rutan also designed the Beech Model 2000 Starship, a futuristic-looking eight-passenger business turboprop, that utilized rear propellers and a constantly shifting forward stabilizer.
	msnbc.msn.com /id/3077811 (1436 words)

	Rocket Man \| csmonitor.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		To the public at large, Rutan is best known as the creator of Voyager, the willowy plane that hangs in the lobby at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington.
		Elbert L. "Burt" Rutan was born June 17, 1943, and raised in Dinuba, in California's Central Valley.
		In 1986, after Rutan's Voyager was two or three days into its around-the-world flight, people "started to catch onto the idea that this thing was real," says Norris, "and maybe it's going to happen." It was just before Christmas, the same year in which the shuttle Challenger was lost.
	www.csmonitor.com /2004/0211/p15s01-stss.html (3285 words)

	Space Future Journal - Rutan's SpaceShipOne
		Rutan's answer to the stalled state of US spaceship development is SpaceShipOne.
		What It Is According to Scaled's website, Spaceflight Now, and Aviation Week, Rutan calls SpaceShipOne an "experimental research and development glider," built to test the ability of a private firm to develop and economically fly a reusable passenger-carrying spacecraft.
		Rutan wants to reach space by December 17, 2003, the centennial of the Wright Brothers' historic flight.
	www.spacefuture.com /journal/journal.cgi?art=2003.04.23.what_it_is (337 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Science/Nature \| Rutan aims to be on X-Prize flight
		Mr Rutan added a decision had not been made on who the pilot would be for the flights, or whether it would actually carry passengers on the second flight.
		Mr Rutan, talking in Europe for the first time as part of the Manx Aviation Festival, said that the only change that had been made to the record-breaking SpaceShipOne was a reinforcing of its nozzle.
		Mr Rutan said there were three pilots who had been trained for the flights, but a decision on who would take the main seat would be made in two to three weeks.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/science/nature/3538346.stm (571 words)

	Wired 11.07: The Right Stuff
		Rutan's smiling face is turned skyward, his bodacious Elvis-like white sideburns whipping in the desert wind.
		But Burt Rutan is known as a fast-moving aeronautical genius, and White Knight isn't just an airplane, it's a mother ship, stage one of the first new manned space program to be unveiled since the space shuttle in 1981.
		He knows Rutan is no bar-stool dreamer; since 1974, Rutan has designed from scratch, built, and flown 38 different aircraft, all without a single fatality or injury.
	www.wired.com /wired/archive/11.07/space.html?pg=1&topic=&topic_set= (1195 words)

	Dick Rutan - Biography
		In May of 2000, Dick Rutan was a last minute addition to a sightseeing airplane trek to the North Pole.
		Rutan had been awarded the Silver Star, five Distinguished Flying Crosses, 16 Air Medals and the Purple Heart.
		Dick Rutan flew the test flight development program of many military and civilian experimental aircraft and set numerous world speed and distance records in his Long-EZ, a popular Rutan designed home-built airplane.
	www.dickrutan.com /page3.html (780 words)

	Rutan Space Program
		Aeronautical design genius Burt Rutan is at it again and his company, Scaled Composites of Mojave, California announced on April 18, 2003 a new venture with a goal of private sub-orbital space travel.
		For over two decades, Rutan has been a designer of aircraft that push the envelope both in aerodynamic design and in the composite materials that he uses to build the wild, but incredibly efficient and safe airplanes and spacecraft.
		Rutan had designed and built the blades on the wind-powered electrical generator that we were installing at the art project in the Arizona Painted Desert.
	www.lasersol.com /air_water/rutan/rutan_space.html (393 words)

	Background: Burt Rutan - The World Technology Network
		Rutan said the flight, which went from a concept in 1995 to reality less than a decade later, was the realization of a long dream.
		Rutan said he would not speculate about the problems until technical data had been reviewed, something he expected in the next few days.
		Rutan holds, in addition, the honorary degree of Doctor of Science from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, June 1987; Doctoral of Science, honoris causa, from Daniel Webster College, May 1987; Doctoral of Humanities, honoris causa, from Lewis University, May 1988 and Doctorate of Technology, honoris causa, from Delft University of Technology, January 1990.
	www.wtn.net /2004/bio56.html (1543 words)

	EAA FAMILY FLIGHT AND BALLOON FEST WELCOMES RENOWNED PILOT DICK RUTAN AS
		Rutan is best known for his around-the-world, nonstop, non-refueled flight in the Voyager in 1986.
		At the age of 19, Rutan joined the Air Force Aviation Cadet Program, was commissioned as a Lieutenant and later received a Bachelor of Science Degree at the American Technological University.
		Rutan evaded enemy capture and was later rescued.
	www.eaa.org /communications/eaanews/pr/020416_ffrutan.html (1030 words)

	Discover the Wisdom of Mankind on Burt Rutan
		Burt Rutan recently criticized NASAâs plans to return to a capsule design for their return to the moon trips saying it was outdated technology.
		Elbert L. "Burt" Rutan (born June 17, 1943) is an aircraft designer known for designing light, strong, unusual-looking, energy-efficient aircraft.
		Over the years Burt Rutan has designed hundreds of aircraft, including the now-famous Voyager, which was piloted by his brother Dick in 1986 on a recordbreaking nine-day non-stop flight around the world.
	www.blinkbits.com /blinks/burt_rutan (1047 words)

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