History: The Rutan 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. The flight took off from Edwards Air Force Base's 15,000 foot (4,600 m) long runway in the Mojave Desert on December 14, ...
He and his company vaulted into the public attention in the 1980s. His aircraft – the Rutan Voyager – became the first to fly around the world without stopping or refuelling in 1986. Aerospace designer Burt Rutan (left) and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen (right). Rutan's company, Scaled...
Check out Rutan's Voyager in this featured Plane of the Week! Because of these design features, the plane can fly faster than most twin-engine planes of its size, with little use of the rudder pedals-something unusual for twin-engine aircraft. This aircraft has proven to outperform other tw...
Rutan/Scaled Voyager [N269VA] (NASA) Voyager (Model 76) (Scaled) 1984 = 2pCmwM rg; one 110hp Continental Voyager 200 and one 130hp O-240 (the latter used only for take-off and emergency power); span: 110'10" length: (fuselage) 25'4" (booms) 29'3" v: 150/100/74. Twin-boom...
Burt Rutan is perhaps the most famous aerospace engineer in the world known for his many, many innovative designs that have marveled people for decades. He is known for dozens of designs including the Voyager which is an extremely efficient airplane designed to circle the planet without stopping ...
In Mojave, Rutan worked as a test pilot for his brother’s Rutan Aircraft Factory. It was Burt Rutan who came up with the idea of building a plane that could fly around the world without refueling. Burt Rutan also designed it. Dick Rutan founded Voyager Aircraft Inc. in 1981 to pursue ...
(bornJune17,1943inEstacada,Oregon)isanAmericanaerospaceengineernotedforhisoriginalityindesigninglight,strong,unusual-looking,energy-efficientaircraft.Heismostfamousforhisdesignoftherecord-breakingVoyager,whichwasthefirstplanetoflyaroundtheworldwithoutstoppingorrefueling,andthesuborbitalrocketplaneSpaceShipOne,whichwonthe...
"Our own data said that the Voyager flight was probably not going to happen," Rutan told Andy Meisler of the New York Times several years later. "We had seven major failures in the 340 hours the plane had flown, and we were planning a 225-hour single flight, almost all over oceans....
Rutan’s fame spread worldwide in 1986 when his aircraft Voyager, piloted by his brother and American pilot Jeana Yeager, made the first unrefueled flight around the world. In 1982 Rutan launched a second company, Scaled Composites, which created research aircraft. SpaceShipOne was developed at ...