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  Lords of the Storm
The attack fleet will be destroyed, and the cautious Rutan will mark off this sector of space as too dangerous and avoid it -- thus giving the Sontarans unrestricted access to the deserted worlds of the former Tzun Confederacy, and all of their precious supplies of terullian.
When the suspicious Rutan respond, the Doctor explains the truth and offers to trade the strategic data he downloaded from the Sontarans’ computer net, in exchange for the Rutan’s promise to leave the human colonists alone and to escort the Doctor to Antares so he can recover property which the Sontarans have stolen from him.
The Rutan, realising that the Doctor is referring to a TARDIS, agree to his terms, but the Doctor is well aware that they’ve done so in order to steal the TARDIS themselves.
www.drwhoguide.com /who_ma17.htm   (2491 words)

  
 Discontinuity Guide - Shakedown
The Rutan Host allows the Doctor to leave Ruta III because it decides that his attempt to help them, whatever his motive, cancels out the death of the Rutan at Fang Rock.
Rutans reproduce by binary fission, both new Rutans having the same memories as the original even if, like Karne, the original Rutan is somehow isolated from the Host.
The Rutans' Sentarrii technology is based on solar power, which is captured and converted to electricity by the crystalline walls of their cities, and by solar panels on the wings of their ornithopters.
www.whoniverse.org /discontinuity/NA45.php   (2069 words)

  
 Global Flyer - Global Express
Rutan said the new plane was the result of 14 months' work by a small team at his Scaled Composites company in Mojave.
At a gathering whose host was Barron Hilton, Rutan mentioned to Fossett that his brother had an idea for an aircraft which could make the trip faster and with a single pilot.
Rutan and Yeager's plane, Voyager, was designed by Rutan's brother, Burt, who is also designing the GlobalFlyer at his workshop in California's Mojave Desert.
www.rosamondproperties.com /global_flyer.html   (1714 words)

  
 washingtonpost.com: Civilian Craft Rises Above
Binnie was greeted on the tarmac by Rutan and his financial backer, Paul Allen, the billionaire co-founder of Microsoft, who put $25 million into the project.
Rutan has often disparaged NASA as being what he sees as a bloated and timid bureaucracy.
Rutan and his team say they decided to alter the trajectory for Monday's flight, which seemed to calm SpaceShipOne's tendency to roll.
www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A5119-2004Oct4?language=printer   (992 words)

  
 WLA - Western Libertarian Alliance
Rutan says the team will analyse the flight data in detail and patch up the ship before announcing an attempt on the X-prize, the $10-million jackpot for the first private, piloted aircraft to top 100 kilometres carrying the weight of three people and repeat the feat within two weeks.
Rutan cites the feathered re-entry as a major achievement, because it allows a vehicle to re-enter the atmosphere with a simple control system.
Rutan had hoped that the vehicle's next flight would be its first prize flight, but that decision will wait.
www.westernlibertarian.org /ss1.htm   (3123 words)

  
 CNN.com - Private craft soars into space, history - Jun 23, 2004
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 mingled, talked and directed traffic with those who spent the night on the windy Mojave Desert floor across from the airstrip Sunday night.
www.cnn.com /2004/TECH/space/06/21/suborbital.test/index.html   (1104 words)

  
 NewsWire Complete Issue
Rutan said SpaceShipTwo will have a cabin as big as that on a Gulfstream V and allow room for six or seven passengers to move about freely and enjoy their five minutes of weightlessness.
Rutan also invited anyone in the audience who wants to be part of this effort to send in their resumes...
Rutan and astronauts Mike Melvill and Brian Binnie each took turns thanking EAA for the fundamental role their participation in the event over the years had in setting the stage for their launch of the commercial manned space industry.
www.avweb.com /eletter/archives/avflash/443-full.html   (4524 words)

  
 Online NewsHour: The Rocketeers -- June 30, 2003
Although Rutan's spaceship is months away from a launch, the craft's mothership, called "White Knight," has already taken to the skies in a series of test flights.
JEFFREY KAYE: Rutan's spaceship is only a sub-orbital craft, unable to reach the moon or planets; but before this spaceship takes its maiden flight, a host of technical challenges-- from designing the right kind of engine to figuring out reentry trajectories-- must still be solved.
Rutan, who's being financed by an anonymous backer, says the idea of a privately built spaceship might seem foolhardy now, but he draws inspiration from those brash mavericks of early aviation.
www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/science/jan-june03/space_06-30.html   (1310 words)

  
 Private rocket ship breaks space barrier - The New Space Race - MSNBC.com
Rutan said he had hoped to start a 60-day countdown toward an X Prize attempt within a matter of days, but the investigation into the anomaly may affect that hoped-for timetable.
Rutan said he had a share in the corporation by virtue of his intellectual property, but "the majority value is the funding that Paul brought to it."
Rutan and other experts have suggested that such seats could go for $30,000 to $100,000 initially, and drop to the price of a sports utility vehicle as larger commercial space vehicles are built.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/5261571   (1638 words)

  
 deseretnews.com | Attorney OK'd Rocky's Torino trip
Rutan noted that "Deputy Mayor Rocky Fluhart consulted the city attorney's office on a variety of legal issues related to the delivery of the message to Torino.
Rutan said he was not asked to release the statement but wanted to offer it to help clarify the public dialogue surrounding the Torino trip.
Olympic tradition calls for the previous host city to deliver a message on peace, youth and the environment to the next host of the Winter Games.
deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,635153248,00.html   (662 words)

  
 USA TODAY Education - Careers TODAY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
After Rutan won the X Prize for the first private manned spacecraft to exceed an altitude of 100 km (about 62 miles) twice in two weeks, Virgin Galactic signed a deal to buy his first five commercial space ships.
As Rutan pointed out to Congress, the average number of manned space flights per year since 1961 is four.
Rutan is going more toward a space minivan, designed to take the family on space day trips.
www.usatoday.com /educate/college/careers/Entreps/6-17-05.htm   (1804 words)

  
 Blacktie-Colorado | PREMIERE EVENTS | Burt Rutan Soars with Wings at “Next Giant Leap” Gala
Pat recounted, the efforts made, by mail, to invite Burt Rutan to be the speaker, which received a polite reply saying that after the space launch, hundreds of offers had come in requesting him to speak but he was just to busy to come to Colorado.
Burt Rutan is a flyer and as such a dreamer, but he is also an engineer and understands the practical steps to getting a job done.
Rutan summarized his pessimism about the lack of progress by saying, “I look for innovation cycles on the subject of higher speed travel”.
www.blacktie-colorado.com /premiere_events/details.cfm?id=1323   (1674 words)

  
 InfoWorld Tech Watch | InfoWorld | At IDF, Barrett's keynote imparts a lesson | March 3, 2005 03:40 PM | By Jack ...
Rutan's SpaceShip One was the winner of the $10 million Ansari X prize for first commercial flight into space.
Rutan made his pitch for taking chances to the audience filled with high tech hardware and software engineers and he complained about the lack of innovation in space exploration.
Rutan's host, Intel, was burned when it innovated on the first 64-bit processors and had to back track in the face of the threat from AMD.
weblog.infoworld.com /techwatch/archives/001155.html   (453 words)

  
 Aviation Videos Burt Rutan and John Ronzc aviation forums on video tape   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
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)

  
 The Space Review: Rutan aims for space: A look at SpaceShipOne (page 1)
It was Rutan’s reputation that helped lure several hundred people to Scaled’s hangar at Mojave Airport on the morning of Friday, April 18—Good Friday—for the unveiling of another of Rutan’s designs.
Rutan’s custom-built “B-52”, the White Knight aircraft, is designed to carry SpaceShipOne under its fuselage.
Rutan said that decision was based on his work with Proteus, a high-altitude aircraft for which White Knight is a direct descendent.
www.thespacereview.com /article/17/1   (1137 words)

  
 AIR SPORTS INTERNATIONAL
Burt and Dick Rutan, whose best-known partnership was the "Voyager" aircraft that made a non-stop, non-refueled flight around the world in 1986, have confirmed their participation at EAA AirVenture 2001.
In December 1986, Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager began a nine-day odyssey in that aircraft.
Rutan's use of canards and composite materials began a new age for homebuilt aircraft.
airsports.fai.org /feb2001/feb2001nws.html   (2903 words)

  
 GlobalFlyer revs up for record   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Salina Municipal Airport was selected to host the attempt in large part because of its central location, which means that Fossett will be over land for the risky final leg of the flight, providing emergency landing areas if needed.
Organizers are prepared to host as many as 30,000 to 32,000 visitors for launch and landing, but anticipate the crowds to number a few thousand, Cook said.
Over two days, the airport hosted about 300 students from across the state, giving each an introduction to the record attempt's concept, team and aircraft.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1332078/posts   (1800 words)

  
 Rutan Host - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rutans have also developed advanced shape-shifting technology, allowing them to appear in any form they wish.
These novels were both released in December 1995, and the former novel leads into the latter.
The Rutans also appeared in the BBV audio play In 2 Minds.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rutan_Host   (676 words)

  
 Essex, Connecticut is steeped in racing history, and one Essex native is hoping to put the small town back on the ...
It was not long before Rutan, Hilliar and a few neighbors realized that the unmuffled, alcohol-burning Briggs and Stratton race engines were not the "hot setup." All of the karts were converted to Honda power, based on the reliability and near silent operation that Honda is known for.
When William Rutan, two-time SCCA National Champion (67and69 Formula C), Pike’s Peak class winner and Mt. Washington record holder, wants to compete with his forty-year-old son and seven-year-old grandson, the backyard is the perfect place.
For the past two years, Trevor Hilliar has hosted an event for his friends from Lime Rock that is one of the most anticipated events of the season for everyone involved.
www.grasspass.org /grm1.html   (3206 words)

  
 Aviation pioneer Burt Rutan to speak at Metro State Nov. 12
The legendary Burt Rutan, winner of last year’s Ansari X Prize for the first private manned spacecraft to exceed an altitude of 328,000 feet twice within the span of a 14-day period, comes to Metro State this Saturday, Nov. 12, for the Burt Rutan Design Competition.
The event is being hosted by the College’s Aviation and Aerospace Science Department and cosponsored by the Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum and Space Voyage, a commercial educational program.
Along with Rutan, the final judges are Willy Daniels and Jeff Forrest.
www.mscd.edu /~collcom/artman/publish/printer_rutan_twv3110905.shtml   (611 words)

  
 Rutan talks of future of space   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Rutan discussed his vision of the future of space travel before rapt crowds Tuesday at the Experimental Aircraft Association's AirVenture 2005.
Rutan predicts 100,000 astronauts will be created in the first 12 years of commercial spaceflight overall.
Rutan and Virgin Galactic officials said they do not plan to announce a strict timeline for the project or when passenger flights will begin.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-chat/1451739/posts   (1250 words)

  
 The Infinity Doctors
The Rutans have developed a device which can destroy planets by converting matter to anti-matter, and the Sontarans, in response, are developing a weapon capable of snuffing out a star.
The Doctor confiscates the Rutan device, which the Sontarans have captured and brought as evidence; but it seems apparent that the hatred between the two races is too deeply entrenched to end.
The Doctor finally remembers to release Sontar and the Rutan from the TARDIS, to find that as they were trapped for hours, unable to kill each other or escape, they eventually learned to talk to each other and have forged the beginning of a peace between their two races.
www.drwhoguide.com /whobbk17.htm   (3034 words)

  
 BURT RUTAN, PRIVATE MANNED SPACE PROGRAM PIONEER, TO PARTICIPATE IN EAA AIRVENTURE 2003
Rutan, always a popular speaker at EAA AirVenture, will talk about the project on Saturday, August 2 at 10 a.m.
Rutan, who received EAA’s Freedom of Flight Award in 1996 for contributions to aviation, has not announced whether he will bring the aircraft to EAA AirVenture, as the project is on a demanding flight-test schedule.
Rutan is best known for the creation of the Voyager, which in 1986 became the first and only aircraft to fly around the world non-stop on a single tank of fuel.
www.eaa.org /communications/eaanews/pr/030425_rutan.html   (602 words)

  
 WITI - Orange County - Meeting
Since the opening of A.W. Rutan's law office in Santa Ana in 1906, Rutan & Tucker LLP has grown to become one of the leading law firms in California, with more than 135 attorneys in offices in Orange County and Silicon Valley.
Rutan & Tucker represents a broad spectrum of clients, from major multinational corporations and financial institutions to family-owned businesses and private individuals; from high-technology and industrial enterprises to agricultural firms; from real estate developers to governmental agencies, educational institutions, and charities.
Rutan & Tucker's reputation has been built on hard work, determination and integrity combined with a commitment to providing the best possible service to our clients.
www.witi.com /orangecounty/meeting.php?id=1896   (1310 words)

  
 Welcome to the Chestnut Hill Local
By the end of the third period the host Lions had trimmed their deficit back to single figures at 31-22, and in the fourth frame they overwhelmed the Cougars, 17-5.
Rutan, with 15 points, and Kristen Fuery, with 14, led the way, and Springside received five points apiece from Kira Theuer (six rebounds) and Krystin Walker, with Amanda Walker adding four assists.
The Lions carved a few points out of Baldwin’s lead in the second stanza, as Rutan nailed three shots from the bonus loop to end the half with a total of five treys.
www.chestnuthilllocal.com /issues/2006.12.21/sports1.html   (876 words)

  
 Background: Burt Rutan - The World Technology Network
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.wtn.net /2004/bio56.html   (1543 words)

  
 News archive - t karts, llc
Rutan, driving his new CT River Dock and Dredge T2 by T Karts, started from the second position behind pole-sitter Trevor Hilliar, but took the lead when Hilliar’s Honda engine stalled in the first turn.
Daniel Rutan was crowned 2005 Backyard Karting National Champion at the October 24th event when he beat 26 of the country’s best backyard karters in a 50 lap championship race held at the Lone Wolf circuit in Winthrop, CT.
Defending national champion, Daniel Rutan, will try to keep his title driving his new T2 by T Karts, facing a deep field of challengers including Trevor Hilliar, Lou Delorso, Peter Rice, Kevin Strain and a host of other karters from a variety of backyard tracks.
www.tkartsusa.com /news.php   (2953 words)

  
 Discontinuity Guide - Lords of the Storm
This is humanity's first encounter with the Sontarans and the Rutan - Sontarans haven't been this side of the Coal Sack in 300 years.
Rutan are amphibious amoeboids who reproduce by division - exponential population growth.
The Sontarans and Rutan are well characterised, and the comparisons between Hindu, Sontaran, and Trion cultures add depth to the story.
www.whoniverse.org /discontinuity/MA17.php   (1329 words)

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