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	Dick Rutan - Biography
		Voyager Aircraft's non-stop and unrefueled flight around the world in December of 1986 placed Mojave proudly on the map and placed Dick Rutan in the history books.
		In May of 2000, Dick Rutan was a last minute addition to a sightseeing airplane trek to the North Pole.
		The wings of the AN-2 suspended the aircraft so the crew could retrieve their survival equipment that was packed in the rear of the sinking plane.
	www.dickrutan.com /page3.html (780 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Burt Rutan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		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.
		The Rutan Defiant is a four-seat, twin-engine aircraft with one propeller in front and one in the rear.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Burt-Rutan (2499 words)

	Burt Rutan Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Burt Rutan (born 1943) has been described as a visionary and as the single most influential designer of aircraft and airframes in the last half of the twentieth century.
		Rutan was the primary force behind the conceptualization, design, and development of the world-flight Voyager airplane, the only airplane to fly a non-stop, non-refueled flight around the world.
		Rutan holds three U.S. patents, and has given numerous presentation and papers on aviation topics ranging from highly technical discussions on the flight characteristics of certain airplane wings to talks on how aviation research and development should be conducted.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/burt-rutan (1738 words)

	Rutan VariEze Kit
		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/rutaneze.htm (1480 words)

	Scaled Composites
		It was a bold innovation in aviation design, merging a state-of-the-art lightweight composite airframe with twin rear pusher-propellers, a swept-forward wing, and an innovative variable-sweep forward horizontal stabilizer (called a foreplane or canard) that changed configuration to compensate for the aerodynamic changes during flight.
		In 1972, he joined Bede Aircraft as its director of development at the Bede Test Centre in Newton, Kansas, noted for fibreglass V-tail kit airplanes, such as the BD-5, and the BD-5J “pocket rocket” mini-jet aircraft, made famous in a 1983 James Bond movie.
		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.pilotfriend.com /acft_manu/rutan.htm (1085 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)

	About Rutan Aircraft Factory, Inc.
		Then, in June 1974 Burt Rutan left his job at Bede Test Center, moved his family to Mojave, California and started Rutan Aircraft Factory (RAF) in order to develop a non-conventional research aircraft he had designed while still in college-the VariViggen.
		Today, 17 years after RAF stopped selling plans for its homebuilt aircraft, the company is staffed by volunteers and is housed in a small office facing the runway on Mojave Airport.
		While aircraft plans are no longer available to the public, RAF will continue to support, for some limited time, the individuals who have already purchased plans and are in the building process.
	www.rutanaircraft.com /htmlpages/rutancompany.html (253 words)

	Burt Rutan - Encyclopedia.com
		He founded (1974) his own company, the Rutan Aircraft Factory, to develop light aircraft and become known for his distinctive designs for the homebuilt aircraft market.
		Burt Rutan takes us to the stars: driven by the recent success of SpaceShipOne, Burt Rutan seeks to show the world his dream of a space tourism industry--and make it come true.(2004 Innovator Of The Year)(Cover Story)(Biography)
		Rocket Man; Aviation legend and convention-buster Burt Rutan leads the charge among civilians out to claim the point position on manned spaceflight.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-RutanBurt.html (947 words)

	TED \| Speakers \| Burt Rutan
		Burt Rutan is widely regarded as one of the world's most important industrial designers, and his prolific contributions to air- and spacecraft design have driven the industry forward for decades.
		His two companies, Rutan Aircraft Factory and Scaled Composites, have developed and flight-tested more new types of aircraft than the rest of the US industry combined.
		Rutan might also be the person to make low-cost space tourism a reality: He's one of the major players promoting entrepreneurial approaches to space exploration, and his collaboration with Virgin Galactic is the most promising of these efforts.
	www.ted.com /index.php/speakers/view/id/5 (581 words)

	NAHF
		RAF developed and marketed innovative "canard" airplane designs for aviators interested in building their own light craft at home.
		Beech Aircraft Corporation bought SCI in 1985, and eventually became a subsidiary of the Wyman-Gordon Corporation in 1987, retaining Rutan as President and CEO.
		Rutan participates in many aviation professional organizations, such as the Experimental Aircraft Association, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, the Society of Flight Test Engineers, the Society of Experimental Test Pilots, and the National Academy of Engineering.
	nationalaviation.blade6.donet.com /components/content_manager_v02/view_nahf/htdocs/menu_ps.asp?NodeID=1875918753&group_ID=1134656385&Parent_ID=-1 (1027 words)

	Burt Rutan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		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.
		Steve Fossett is hoping to use the GlobalFlyer, an aircraft similar to the Voyager design but with stiffer materials and a jet engine, to do the first solo non-stop flight around the world.
	www.centipedia.com /articles/Burt_Rutan (527 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The AMSOIL Racer, also known as the AMSOIL/Rutan Racer and the Rutan Model 68 Racer, was a race bi-plane that was designed by Burt Rutan's Rutan Aircraft Factory, and built and flown by Dan Mortensen.
		Like the Model 54 Quickie sport biplane that previously designed, the Model 68 (as Rutan designated it) was configured with a canard wing, a main wing and, unlike the Quickie, had additional horizontal flight surface in the form of a T-tail.
		The aircraft was rebuilt for static display, and currently hangs in a bar at the Grand Sierra Resort in Reno, Nevada.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=AMSOIL_Racer (534 words)

	Elbert L. "Burt" Rutan Receives 2004 SAE Clarence L. "Kelly" Johnson Aerospace Vehicle Design and Development Award
		Rutan will be recognized during the SAE 2005 AeroTech Congress and Exhibition banquet on Wednesday, October 5 at the Gaylord Texan Resort and Convention Center, Dallas/Fort Worth Airport Area, Texas, USA.
		Rutan formed the Rutan Aircraft Factory (RAF) in June 1974 to develop light homebuilt aircraft.
		Rutan is a member of the Experimental Aircraft Association, the Academy of Model Aeronautics, the Society of Experimental Test Pilots, the International Order of Characters, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, the Society of Flight Test Engineers, and the National Academy of Engineering.
	www.sae.org /news/releases/05johnson.htm (634 words)

	Background: Burt Rutan - The World Technology Network (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		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)

	Hallmarks of Homebuilding - Lou Stolp's Idea: The One-Stop Shop
		Rutan’s prototype VariEze also demonstrated tremendous efficiency, achieving 70 miles per gallon with two people aboard at a cruising speed of 135 mph.
		Burt Rutan pushed the imagination of what was possible in aircraft design and performance and brought it to the homebuilder.
		Rutan’s new design was one of the first aircraft to fly with the Whitcomb Winglets.
	www.airventure.org /2006/events/hallmarks_rutan6.html (297 words)

	Burt Rutan
		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.
		RAF turned out such craft as the Long-EZ, the Grizzly, the Defiant, VariViggen, VariEze, NASA AD-1, Quickie, the scaled NGT trainer, as well as Solitaire, Catbird, and the Voyager aircraft that was piloted around the world by his brother Dick.
		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)

	SPACE.com -- Burt Rutan on Civilian Spaceflight, Breakthroughs, and Inside SpaceShipTwo
		At Scaled Composites--home of the privately financed and built SpaceShipOne that made a trio of piloted suborbital flights in 2004 under the rubric of Tier 1--the fabrication of a fleet of passenger-carrying space planes and huge carrier launch planes is underway.
		While he's not about to roll out blueprints or show you factory floor hardware, he gave this reporter a squat down, legs folded, but relaxing beanbag chair interview in his office to discuss the business of public space travel.
		The mothership will be an aerobatic airplane, Rutan said, able to provide rehearsal runs that produce seconds of weightlessness for future suborbital space travelers, as well as offer a view of the dark blue sky at 50,000 feet (15 kilometers).
	www.space.com /news/060811_rutan_interview.html (1230 words)

	Rocket Man \| csmonitor.com
		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?s=r101a (3258 words)

	Aviation Videos Burt Rutan and John Ronzc aviation forums on video tape
		Rutan Aircraft Factory showing dozens of pictures, (many never publicly shown before), from the very earliest days of the business.
		Burt Rutan takes the stage solo this year to host his own personal "phone-in radio talk show." With half his brain tied behind his back just to make it fair, Burt accepts questions form the Oshkosh crowd who "call in" at this popular forum with every question imaginable.
		Dick Rutan presents three mini-forums in one: The round the world flight of the Voyager with video of the nearly disastrous take-off run, The AN-2 landing at the north pole and crashing through the ice, and The first public showing of the July 21, 2001 flight of a rocket powered Long Ez.
	members.aol.com /aviationvideos (2080 words)

	Definition of Rutan Long-EZ
		The Rutan Model 61 Long-EZ is a homebuilt aircraft with a canard layout designed by Burt Rutan's Rutan Aircraft Factory.
		The aircraft is designed for fuel-efficient long-range flight and can fly for over ten hours and up to 2,500 kilometers (1,600 miles) on 200 liters (52 gallons) of fuel.
		The aircraft will not stall in the manner of a conventional aircraft since, if the Long-EZ reaches too low a speed, the front (canard) wing will stall and lower the aircraft nose until speed is regained.
	www.wordiq.com /definition/Rutan_Long-EZ (284 words)

	Scaled Composites
		The company was founded to develop experimental aircraft, but now focuses on designing and developing concept craft and prototype fabrication processes for aircraft and other vehicles.
		The craft was brought aloft by the White Knight carrier aircraft.
		Before SpaceShipOne, Rutan was best known for his Voyager aircraft, which his brother, Dick Rutan, and Jeana Yeager flew around the world without refueling, in 1986.
	www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/s/sc/scaled_composites.html (566 words)

	AD-1 index: AD-1 Oblique Wing Photo Gallery Contact Sheet
		The aircraft was delivered to the Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA, in March 1979 and its first flight was on December 21, 1979.
		Piloting the aircraft on that flight, as well as on its last flight on August 7, 1982, was NASA Research Pilot Thomas C. McMurtry.
		The aircraft was 38.8 feet long and 6.75 feet high with a wing span of 32.3 feet, unswept.
	www.dfrc.nasa.gov /Gallery/Photo/AD-1/HTML/index.html (515 words)

	SpaceShipOne Makes History
		Rutan's Awards include the Chrysler Award for Innovation in Design, "Engineer of the Year" by Design News, the British Gold Medal for Aeronautics, the Collier Trophy and the Presidential Citizen's Medal.
		The aircraft were distinguished by their wing-forward canard designs build with composite materials, concepts that flew in the face of traditional aviation paradigms of the time.
		In 1982, Rutan founded Scaled Composites, Inc. and developed prototypes of seven aircraft including the Beech Starship, which due to shortsighted management and development errors on the part of Beechcraft, failed to achieve commercial success.
	www.smartalix.com /spaceshipone.html (706 words)

	Arizona Aerospace Foundation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Designer Burt Rutan has become world famous for his unique advanced aircraft designs.
		In the late 1970s his company, Rutan Aircraft Factory, produced plans for several different types of homebuilt aircraft.
		The aircraft’s fiberglass construction allows good performance and speed while using a small, economical engine.
	www.pimaair.org /Acftdatapics/Rutan%20Long-EZ.htm (121 words)

	Burt Rutan Summary
		Rutan had to design an airplane that could fly 28,000 statute miles without refueling.
		He is most famous for his design of the record breaking Voyager - which was the first plane to fly around the world without stopping or refueling - and the suborbital rocket plane SpaceShipOne.
		Rutan is married to his fourth wife, Tonya Rutan.
	www.bookrags.com /Burt_Rutan (2392 words)

	Commercial space venture unites mogul, aeronautics rebel - USATODAY.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Rutan heads the obliquely named Scaled Composites LLC, the kind of techie operation where a new milling machine is announced on its website with an exclamation point.
		Rutan's latest effort is based on his SpaceShipOne prototype, a shuttlecock-shaped, hybrid rocket motor-powered craft that became the first private, piloted vehicle to reach space.
		Rutan and Branson have repeatedly said safety is their main focus.
	www.usatoday.com /tech/science/space/2007-04-15-spaceduo_N.htm (1520 words)

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