Dick Rutan, along with copilot Jeana Yeager, completed one of the greatest milestones in aviation history: the first ...
On a frigid morning in December 1986, the aviation world held its breath as a slender aircraft with wings laden with fuel ...
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 co-piloted the Voyager around the world in 1986, taking off from and landing at Edwards Air Force Base without ...
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 radio to warn the ...