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Burt Rutan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Burt Rutan is a gifted engineer, adventurer and entrepreneur. Designer of the record-breaking Voyager - the first airplane to circle the world non-stop and without refueling - Rutan’s story is the stuff of American folklore.
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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH FOR BURT RUTAN; ... Burt Rutan was raised in Dinuba, California. Mr. Rutan holds, in addition, the honorary degree of Doctor of Science from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, dated 13 June 1987; Doctoral of Science, honoris causa, from Daniel Webster College, 17 May 1987;
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Burt Rutan remembers the birth of the VariEze and names his favorite aircraft. ... Long before inventing SpaceShipOne and Voyager—the first aircraft to circle the world nonstop and unrefueled—Burt Rutan revolutionized the practice of homebuilding airplanes with a 700-pound, composite oddity built with a set of step-by...
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Rutan Voyager - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Model 76 Voyager was the first aircraft to fly around the world without stopping or refueling. It was piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager (no relation to Chuck Yeager). The flight took off fr...
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British entrepreneur, Sir Richard Branson, has teamed up with aerospace designer, Burt Rutan of Scaled Composites to form a new aerospace production company. The new firm will build a fleet of commercial suborbital spaceships and launch aircraft. ... Burt Rutan Chides NASA for Dullness, Says Space Should be Fun;
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