The Rutan Model 61 Long-EZ is a tandem two-seater home-built aircraft designed by Burt Rutan's Rutan Aircraft Factory. The Long-EZ has a canard layout, with a delta wing and wingtip rudders, and a pusher engine and propeller. The tricycle landing gear has fixed main wheels with streamlin...
The Rutan Voyager, an aircraft designed for a non-stop, around-the-world flight without refueling, had a total fuel capacity of approximately 1,620 gallons (6,130 liters). This fuel was stored in multiple fuel tanks throughout the aircraft's structure. The extensive fuel capacity allowed ...
Rutan not only designs incredibly original and effective aircraft, but he makes them look like they belong in a fantastical dream. This time Rutan is after the X-prize. US$10 million for the first team to build a reusable craft that will take people into true space and back, according to...
Reg: N14LE photos Aircraft: Rutan LongEZ Airline: Private Serial #: 1680 Photo Location Battle Creek W.K. Kellogg Int'l - KBTL USA - Michigan Photographer Moose__ Photos | Profile | Contact Moose__ N660WM 77 1 0 Cirrus SR20 Moose__ N476CB 265 2 0 Gulfstream G600 Luke...
(O-235)" ui_typerole="Home-built Aircraft" ui_createdby="AlphaSim Ltd" description=Rutan 61 Long-EZ The Rutan Long-EZ for Flight Sim is the first in a next-generation line of AlphaSim products. The Long-EZ is an incredibly popular home-built aircraft flown by pilots all over the ...
So, armed with a $15K loan from his father, he moved his family of 4 from Newton, KS to the remote desert airport town of Mojave, CA to set up Rutan Aircraft Factory (RAF). Burt was all of 29 & full of courage, with a grand vision to impact the world of aviation. But at ...
1969: (Elbert L "Burt") Rutan Aircraft Factory (RAF). 1974: Mojave Airport CA. 1981: Voyager Aircraft Co (Dick Rutan, Jeana Yeager), Mojave CA. 1983: Scaled Composites Inc (SCALED = "Scaled Composites, the Advanced Link to Efficient Development") established. 1985: Scaled Composites bought...
Scaled Composites 的原身为 Rutan Aircraft Factory,是知名飞机设计大师 Burt Rutan 在 1974 年成立的公司。多年来 Scaled Composites 数度转手,如今是诺斯拉普格鲁曼公司的一个皆部,但 Burt Rutan 一直都待在公司内,而且几乎参与了 Scaled Composites 所有重要的飞机设计。从 Scaled Composites 的飞机,就可以看出 ...
Rutan Aircraft FactoryandScaled Composites, have developed and flight-tested more new types of aircraft than the rest of the US industry combined. He has himself designed hundreds of aircraft, including the famousVoyager,which his brother piloted on a record-breaking nine-day nonstop flight around...
Two years later, he founded his first company: Rutan Aircraft Factory. Working mainly with two-seat aircraft, Rutan's designs were used by everyone from private hobbyists to NASA. In 1986, Burt's brother Dick and aviator Jeana Yeager piloted one of Rutan's planes all the way around the ...