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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Burt 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.
		The Rutan Defiant is a four-seat, twin-engine aircraft with one propeller in front and one in the rear.
		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.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Burt-Rutan (2517 words)

	Skymaster Owners And Pilots Site (SOAP) C336, C337, O-2
		Burt Rutan applied himself to the problems of building a canard-controlled, centerline thrust twin, and the result was a Star Wars design know as the Defiant.
		Rutan pulled out all the stops when he built the Defiant, designing an airplane that would effectively avoid all the traps of twin-engine airplanes flown on one mill.
		The Defiant’s reaction was a 400-foot balloon in altitude, along with a bleed-off of airspeed to around 55 knots.
	www.337skymaster.com /defiant.htm (1745 words)

	Scaled Composites
		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.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)

	Berthold Rutan - IBWiki
		From 1965 to 1972 Rutan worked for the NAL Air Force at Langley Air Force Base in Virginia as a flight test project engineer, working on nine separate projects including fighter spin tests and the XC-142 VSTOL transport.
		Rutan struck out on his own in June of 1975 with the creation of the Rutan Aircraft Factory in the Mojave Desert of Alta California, where he designed and developed prototypes for a number of aircraft, mostly home-built.
		Over the years Burt Rutan has designed hundreds of aircraft, including the now-famous Putnik, which was piloted by his brother Dick in 1986 on a recordbreaking nine-day non-stop flight around the world.
	ib.frath.net /w/Berthold_Rutan (434 words)

	Back to the Future Rutan to Return to Space - Space - RedOrbit
		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/space/89686/back_to_the_future_rutan_to_return_to_space/index.html (1151 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)

	Elbert L. "Burt" Rutan 2
		Um, there were about 100 sets of plans on the Defiant sold, maybe 20 airplanes out of those.
		Well, 10 percent's a good finish rate on any homebuilt that's built from plans, and Defiant probably is around 20 percent, so it's twice the normal.
		I was up in a cabin on a cold winter night and I had my feet up by the stove and the manufacturer was Defiant,' so Defiant was named after a wood stove and I never knew it.
	www.allstar.fiu.edu /aero/rutan2.htm (5237 words)

	defiant - Information from Reference.com
		Defiant was established in 1993 by the former Editor-in-Chief of Marvel Comics and Valiant Comics, Jim Shooter.
		Defiant was founded in the wake of Jim Shooter's departure from Valiant.
		The sum would never be recouped and eventually would lead Defiant to close its doors before it would become bankrupt.
	www.reference.com /browse/defiant (687 words)

	Inventor of the Week: Archive
		Rutan's groundbreaking ideas lead him to develop craft unlike any others that previously existed; with RAF, he produced such planes as the VariEze (a do-it-yourself kit plane for hobbyists), the NASA AD-1, Defiant, Long-EZ, Grizzly, Solitaire, Catbird and Boomerang.
		Rutan, with backing from former Microsoft executive and millionaire investor Paul Allen, developed SS1 to work with an airborne launch system, which allowed it to launch from the "White Knight" gull-wing turbojet launcher at up to 48,000 feet.
		In 2005, Rutan made headlines again for a round-the-world flight when the first such solo voyage was achieved by his GlobalFlyer craft, which made the trip by traveling for just three consecutive days at 400 mph.
	web.mit.edu /invent/iow/rutan.html (760 words)

	About Facts Net
		Of all the aircraft builders today Rutan is the most innovative and his planes are among the most unusual in the air.
		Previously a Rutan prop plane had circled the world in eight days without refueling, the plane was the Voyager.
		The Rutan planes are the most interesting planes aloft and Dick Rutan is an aeronautical genius.
	aboutfacts.net /People30.htm (711 words)

	Aerospace pioneer Rutan does what few dare to imagine
		Rutan is the kind of straight-talking, let's-just-do-it kind of guy who doesn't dwell on obstacles.
		Rutan likes to bash NASA and the tendency for governments to be overly cautious and incredibly cost-inefficient when it comes to space exploration today.
		Rutan said he met yesterday with one of the first group of spectators to drive into town to watch Space- ShipOne.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /national/178808_rutan21.asp (839 words)

	Boomerang!: Rutan's Asymmetrical Twin - Popular Mechanics
		Rutan thinks it is fair to compare his Boomerang with a pressurized 6-seat Baron.
		And, says Rutan, the Boomerang's range at economy cruise is more than 2300 miles, 60% farther than the Baron, even though the Baron carries more fuel.
		Running software written by Rutan's son Jeff, an engineer, the laptop provides GPS navigation plots and monitors engine and airframe performance from the first turn of the prop until the plane rolls to a stop after a flight.
	www.popularmechanics.com /technology/transportation/1289166.html?page=3 (725 words)

	Rutan, Elbert L."Burt"(1943-)
		Rutan was born in Portland, Oregon, raised in Dinuba, California, and received his B.S. in aeronautical engineering at California Polytechnic University in 1965.
		Through this company, the VariViggen, VariEze, NASA AD-1, Quickie, Defiant, Long-EZ, Grizzly, scaled NGT trainer, Solitaire, Catbird, and the world-flight Voyager aircraft (which his brother Dick and Jeana Yeager flew in 1986 in the first nonstop unrefueled flight around the world) were developed.
		In April 1982, Rutan founded Scaled Composites (Scaled) to develop research aircraft.
	www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/R/Rutan.html (372 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 (3341 words)

	Defiant Experimental Aircraft For Sale at For sale (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Rutan was already well known among experimental aircraft enthusiasts for his...
		Some aircraft Solitaire the AD the Amsoil Racer the Defiant The Rutan Aircraft Factory discontinued the sale of plans for home built airplanes professional organizations such as the Experimental Aircraft us to the set of plans that are for sale Saturday morning Experimental Aircraft Association EZ of the month is Harry Manvel's Defiant.
		Glasair Defiant Rutan was already well known among experimental aircraft enthusiasts for his Rutan Defiant North American XB Valkyrie Cozy MK IV larger more powerful version and offered plans for sale.
	www.placeing.info /for-sale/defiant-experimental-aircraft-for-sale.php (1200 words)

	Cozy MK IV - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The builder technically does not need pre-fabricated parts (except for the landing gear bow and nose gear strut which require forms and an oven for post curing, which is above the skill level of home builders) to finish the airplane, but several suppliers exist.
		The Cozy is similar to the Rutan Long-EZ.
		Like the EZ, it is usually built with a retractable nose gear and fixed main gear.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cozy_MK_IV (415 words)

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	Royce Carlton, Inc.
		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.
		Rutan worked for the U.S. Air Force from 1965 until 1972 as Flight Test Project Engineer at Edwards Air Force Base, California.
		Rutan became director of the Bede Test Center for Bede Aircraft in Newton, Kansas.
	www.roycecarlton.com /speakers/pf_rutan_bio.html (578 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal
		The Rutan Model 40 Defiant is a four-seat, twin-engine aircraft with the engines in a push-pull configuration.
		It was designed by well-known aerospace engineer Burt Rutan for the Rutan Aircraft Factory.
		Adequate financing was not secured for this project, and the design was modified for homebuilt construction as the Model 74, with the second aircraft (built by Fred Keller) appearing at Oshkosh 1983.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Rutan_Defiant (196 words)

	Rutan Defiant canard question. - HomeBuiltAirplanes.com
		And despite all of the knowledge gained in Vari-Viggen, Vari-Eze, Long Eze, and Cozy, the Velocity series ended up having to reduce the canard span to allow full range of CG to be used.
		Rutan Aircraft Factory also ended up reducing the spans of their canards...
		I think that it is important to note that even Burt Rutan has abandoned canards.
	www.homebuiltairplanes.com /forums/showthread.php?p=17724 (1058 words)

	Horror of Fang Rock
		The Rutan replies that it is sending a signal to its fleet and the Doctor tosses the defunct transmitter at it.
		He realizes that the Rutan ship is crystalline and a simple carbon laser could destroy it if its shields are off - which they would be when landing on a primitive planet.
		The Doctor briefly dealt with Rutan equipment in Evolution, and Rutans appear again in The Infinity Doctors, Lords of the Storm and Shakedown.
	www.drwhoguide.com /who_4v.htm (4160 words)

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	Flight pioneer still aiming for stars Oakland Tribune - Find Articles
		Burt Rutan is perhaps best-known for the launch of SpaceShipOne, the private-manned spacecraft that exceeded an altitude of 328,000 feet twice in a two-week period last October and garnered the $10 million Ansari X-Prize.
		Virgin Galactic, as Rutan said it will be called, will run the commercial aspects of the effort, and Rutan's role will include flight tests and research and development.
		Based in Mojave, Rutan, who was once a test pilot for the Air Force, developed 39 different airplane types through two companies he founded, Rutan Aircraft Factory and Scaled Composites.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4176/is_20051010/ai_n15804893 (440 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.
		Through this company, the VariViggen, VariEze, NASA AD-1, Quickie, Defiant, Long-EZ, Grizzly, scaled NGT trainer, Solitaire, Catbird, the Boomerang and the world-flight Voyager aircraft were developed.
		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)

	TERF Inc. - Rutan Aircraft Factory CDROM
		Because of this the assembly instructions are annotated in the margines of the template sheets (not included).
		Therefore the "Plans" section of the Defiant is much smaller than the other aircraft.
		All information found herein is copyright 1991-2005 of TERF Inc. No part of this web page or its intellectual property is to be used without expressed written permission from TERF Inc. Michigan and only to be presented for the use intended.
	www.dragonaero.com /RAFCDROM.htm (335 words)

	Rutan Defiant at AllExperts
		The Rutan Model 40 Defiant is a four-seat, twin-engine aircraft with the engines in a push-pull configuration.
		It was intended as a proof-of-concept of a very safe light twin design, requiring little trim change and no pilot action in case of engine failure and with good single engine performance.
		A comparison of the Defiant single engine climb rate with a Grumman Cougar showed about 390 vs 280 ft/min at low altitude with both aircraft cleaned up.
	en.allexperts.com /e/r/ru/rutan_defiant.htm (290 words)

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	Dick Rutan - Products to Order
		Loaded with all of the exact facts, official data and even the final performance curves and accurate log.
		This poster sized print of a painting by artist Rainer Hanxleden depicts the fuel laden Voyager as she leaves the runway at Edwards Air Force Base on her world flight odyssey.
		Up to the minute reports as Mike Melvill and Dick Rutan circled the globe in the Long-EZ aircraft they built side by side nearly 20 years ago.
	www.dickrutan.com /page11.html (923 words)

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