Dick Rutan, along with copilot Jeana Yeager, completed one of the greatest milestones in aviation history: the first ...
His nine-day voyage, in a plane designed by his brother that resembled a child’s glider but had wings longer than a Boeing ...
Dick Rutan, right, and Jeana Yeager pose for a photo Dec. 19, 1985. Rutan, who along with co-pilot Yeager completed one of the greatest milestones in aviation history: the first round-the-world ...
Even as a young child growing up in the small Central Valley town of Dinuba, Dick Rutan knew that he wanted to be a pilot.
MEREDITH, N.H. — Burt Rutan was alarmed to see the plane he had designed was so loaded with fuel that the wing tips started dragging along the ground as it taxied down the runway. He grabbed the ...