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	Rutan Voyager
		Voyager was the result of six years of design, construction, and development by a talented team of individuals.
		Dick Rutan is a decorated Air Force fighter pilot and test pilot, and both he and Jeana Yeager set records in Rutan-designed aircraft.
		Voyager was equipped with Hartzell constant-speed, variable-pitch aluminum propellers that proved to be a critical factor in stretching the aircraft's range enough to bring it home.
	www.nasm.si.edu /research/aero/aircraft/rutanvoy.htm (1073 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)

	Rutan Voyager
		Rutan and his team-mate 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, non-stop.
		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.airracinghistory.freeola.com /aircraft/voyager.htm (1349 words)

	Aerospaceweb.org \| Aircraft Museum - Rutan Voyager
		Although the damaged tips resulted in greater drag, Voyager was maneuvered by ground personnel into regions of higher tail winds to compensate for the loss of performance.
		Thanks to the winds of Typhoon Marge, the Voyager reached a top speed of 150 mph (240 km/h) and an average speed of 115 mph (185 km/h) during its journey.
		Nonetheless, the Voyager continued on to Edwards Air Force Base were it made a triumphant return on 23 December 1986 concluding a journey that lasted 9 days, 3 minutes, and 44 seconds.
	www.aerospaceweb.org /aircraft/research/voyager (566 words)

	Airport Journals
		Voyager pilot Dick Rutan “had an abnormal fascination for airplanes from the moment of birth.” That passion led him to the military and to Vietnam, where he flew 325 combat missions.
		Voyager's aim was to break the record of a Boeing B-52, flown by an Air Force crew, which flew without refueling 12,532 miles in 1962.
		Rutan stressed a need for her to train and work on her flying, so she spent several weeks in instrument and multiengine training with Beech in Wichita, Kansas.
	www.airportjournals.com /Display.cfm?varID=0612035 (6894 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)

	Airport Journals
		Dick Rutan took Voyager for her maiden flight on June 22, 1984, and quickly learned that they'd have to pay the price for an aircraft optimized for range, which was virtually a "flying fuel tank" (16 fuel tanks in the wings and fuselage fed into a common fuselage feed tank).
		Rutan answered the first by holding up a fecal containment bags, and the second by saying, "No, Jeana isn't related to Chuck." As 1986 had begun to unfold, in answer to when they would take off, he had responded with a date he'd pulled out of thin air: Sept. 14.
		Rutan was concerned that Voyager wasn't stable enough for Yeager to fly, but she eventually talked him into giving up his seat and lying down to rest.
	www.airportjournals.com /Display.cfm?varID=0701014 (9876 words)

	The Visiting Nurse Association Air Show presents "Legend of Flight" Dick Rutan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Dick Rutan, pilot of the historic Voyager world flight, will take you around the world and beyond as he discusses past, present and future aviation achievements.
		Voyager's flight was the first-ever, non-stop, unrefueled flight around the world.
		The Voyager Aircraft is on permanent display at the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC.
	www.stuartairshow.com /rutan.html (751 words)

	Voyager index: Voyager Photo Gallery Contact Sheet
		Richard Rutan and Jeana Yeager piloted the aircraft from a cramped cockpit.
		Voyager's wintips sustained minor damage during its takeoff roll because of the massive amount of fuel it was carrying.
		Voyager, designed by Burt Rutan, Richard Rutan's brother and president of Scaled Composites, was built almost entirely of graphite composites.
	www.dfrc.nasa.gov /gallery/photo/Voyager/HTML/index.html (240 words)

	Dick Rutan - Voyager Flight Fun Facts
		She was fueled for hours and on December 14, 1986, Voyager took off on what would become The World's Longest Flight.
		Voyager's flight was the first-ever, non-stop, unrefueled flight around the world.
		The Voyager Aircraft is on permanent display at the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC.
	www.dickrutan.com /page2.html (363 words)

	Rutan Voyager walkaround
		On December 23, 1986, "Voyager" completed the first nonstop, non-refueled flight around the world.
		A unique aircraft constructed almost entirely of lightweight graphite-honeycomb composite materials and laden with fuel, "Voyager" lifted off from Edwards Air Force Base, California, at 8:01 a.m.
		For their record-breaking flight, pilots Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, designer Burt Rutan, and crew chief Bruce Evans earned the Collier Trophy, aviation's most prestigious award (Source).
	aircraftwalkaround.hobbyvista.com /voyager/voyager.htm (85 words)

	NAHF
		After the Voyager's return, the flight was recognized by the National Aeronautical Association, which acknowledged the accomplishment as a United States record and the FAI as a world record.
		The Voyager now hangs in the entrance to the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. Burt Rutan is the recipient of numerous other awards, including the FAI Gold Medal, the 1987 Collier Trophy and the Society of Experimental Test Pilots' Doolittle Trophy for his work on the Voyager.
		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)

	Voyager Personal Emergency System - ParachuteHistory.com
		From December 14 to 23, 1986, Burt Rutan's Voyager experimental aircraft flew around the world on a single tank of fuel.
		Rutan was able to wear a conventional pilot emergency rig.
		The raft was attached to the survival compartment with a 20-foot lanyard.
	www.parachutehistory.com /other/butler.html (988 words)

	Dick Rutan, personal appearances, dick rutan
		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.
		Since Voyager's world flight, Dick has been traveling the world on the lecture circuit, telling his tale of the magnificent Voyager project and flight and of the North Pole adventure.
	www.barberusa.com /pathfind/rutan_dick.html (957 words)

	DICK RUTAN TAKES AUDIENCE AROUND THE WORLD AND OUT OF THIS WORLD
		Dick Rutan, pilot of the historic Voyager world flight, thrilled an audience of over 200 at AirVenture Museum on January 16 with discussions of past, present and future aviation achievements.
		Created by his brother, famed designer Burt Rutan, Voyager’s structural weight was only 939 pounds, but after adding fuel, pilots and supplies, the gross take off weight was 9,694.5 pounds.
		The audience was riveted as Rutan described the long, dark nights flying over oceans, avoiding turbulent clouds with the aid of some night-vision goggles given to him at the last last-minute.
	www.eaa.org /communications/eaanews/020117_rutan.html (673 words)

	CNN - Third balloon team to try where others failed - January 5, 1998
		Rutan, a Californian, is best known as one of the pilots of the first nonstop airplane flight around the world -- a record he and Jeana Yeager set in 1986 aboard the aircraft Voyager.
		The Global Hilton, a combination helium and hot air balloon, is designed to allow Rutan and Melton to stay at the right altitude in the heat of day, or cool of night.
		The winner, Rutan said, will be the balloon team that manages to maintain the right altitude throughout the voyage.(119K/10 sec.
	www.cnn.com /US/9801/05/rutan.advancer (601 words)

	Rocket Man \| csmonitor.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		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.
		Rutan not only wants to set records and make history, but also to shatter conventional notions about the near-impossibility of private ventures sending ordinary folks into space.
		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 (3303 words)

	RedOrbit - Space - Poly Alum Riding High (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Rutan's latest project is making space travel more available to the common person.
		Last year, Rutan was the designer on the privately funded SpaceShipOne, winner of the $10 million Ansari X Prize after it returned safely from suborbital space flight for a second time.
		Rutan's latest project is envisioning and designing for a time when "space tourists" routinely take suborbital trips into space.
	www.redorbit.com /news/display?id=241186&source=r_space (685 words)

	VOYAGER FIRST ROUND THE WORLD NON STOP FLIGHT \| DICK RUTAN AND JEANE YEAGER \| SIR FRANCIS CHICHESTER, SIR ROBIN KNOX ...
		Responding to a reporter's question, Rutan said that a Boeing 747 with 82-percent of its weight in fuel "would not get off the ground," and that, lacking an engine that was twice as efficient as current engines, the jumbo jet could not fly around the world without refueling.
		Rutan said the airplane's lift-to-drag ratio, a measure of aerodynamic efficiency, is similar to that of an efficient, competition sailplane rather than that of a conventional airplane.
		Voyager's wingtips sustained minor damage during its takeoff roll because of the massive amount of fuel.
	www.solarnavigator.net /voyager_circumnavigation_non_stop_flight.htm (2704 words)

	Elbert L. "Burt" Rutan
		Elbert L. (Burt) Rutan was born in Portland, Oregon on June 17, 1943 and raised in Dinuba, California.
		Burt Rutan's designs are characterized by the use of light-weight composite materials, innovation which is akin to the transition in aircraft construction from wood and fabric to metal.
		On December 23, 1986, Rutan's Voyager aircraft returned to its starting point at Mojave, California completing a twenty five thousand mile and two hundred sixteen hour non-stop and unrefueled around the world flight, the first in history.
	www.allstar.fiu.edu /aero/rutan.htm (315 words)

	No. 218: The Flight of Voyager
		To begin with, they had to double the previous distance record to get all the way around the world in one bite.
		Dick Rutan's brother Burt, an airplane designer and builder, thought he could beat that equation with modern materials and an outrageous design.
		Rutan, the more experienced of the two, did most of the flying.
	www.uh.edu /engines/epi218.htm (451 words)

	1 Jet Engine & 18,000 Pounds of Fuel - Popular Science
		Fabrication began in September 2002, after a two-year design process during which Rutan and his lead engineers determined the airplane's configuration; this was done in collaboration with Fossett, who commissioned the airplane from Scaled after discussing the flight with both Rutan brothers.
		Rutan took a weekend and figured out that based on experience in the competition to build the Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicle, which had incredibly high fuel- fraction requirements, he might be able to make a jet-engine aircraft work.
		Even with that much fuel, its range would be shorter than that of Voyager, and this forced Rutan to propose that the new aircraft follow the jet stream around the world to take advantage of a 50-to-100-knot boost.
	www.popsci.com /popsci/automotivetech/94a05b4a1db84010vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd/2.html (631 words)

	Scaled Composites: Voyager
		The Voyager aircraft was designed and fabricated for a single mission: Fly around the world non-stop non-refueled.
		Although the Voyager was not a Scaled Composites project, it was designed by our present CEO Burt Rutan.
		This was key to the Voyager's success, because the amount of fuel carried, in relation to the vehicle's takeoff weight, had the strongest influence on range.
	www.scaled.com /projects/voyager.html (322 words)

	The Space Review: A few words with Dick Rutan
		Rutan: After my first ride in an airplane at the age of six (thanks, Mom Rutan!), I had an abnormal fascination for aviation—an abnormal fascination that will follow me the rest of my life.
		Rutan: After we built the Voyager and I could gaze upon her, I had premonitions and reoccurring nightmares that she would result in our demise.
		Rutan: The Friendship Tour began after my good friend, Mike Melvill, mentioned he’d like to fly his EZ back home (South Africa) and asked me to be his wingman.
	www.thespacereview.com /article/513/1 (1441 words)

	Dick Rutan
		It was almost 20 years ago that I climbed into Voyager's cramped cockpit for a flight around the globe, setting many absolute and world records.
		On a cold December morning in 1986, the fuel laden Voyager struggled to become airborne to begin her journey around the world.
		Dick Rutan is very pro-education, and believes, "You are limited only by what you can dream." Years ago, he established The Dick Rutan Scholarship Fund, and has gifted thousands and thousands of dollars to young people to assist in furthering their educations.
	www.dickrutan.com (627 words)

	Exotic around-the-world jet unveiled - Science - MSNBC.com
		The similarities between Voyager and GlobalFlyer end with their common trimaran shape: a long wing with a stubby cockpit fuselage flanked by long booms with twin tails.
		In addition to having a two-person crew, Voyager was piston-powered with propellers mounted in front of and behind the cockpit.
		Voyager was 73 percent fuel by weight when it took off; GlobalFlyer will be 82 percent fuel.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/3908915 (831 words)

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