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 ...
After Burt Rutan won that first X-Prize with his SpaceShip 1, the foundation decided to get its head out of the clouds, so to speak. As a follow-up to the space program, you can probably guess ...
For once, Oregon wasn’t behind. The Ducks didn’t trail at the half, nor down the stretch. It was a strange sense of calm for a team that... Twenty-five University students, staff members and ...
The second man behind the Stratolaunch is Burt Rutan, a giant in the aviation world, who wrote several books on composite construction. There are more Rutan designs on display at the National Air ...