MEREDITH, N.H. (AP) — 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.
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. Whenever he heard an airplane, he would gaze up and it seemed the sky was ...
MEREDITH, N.H. (AP) — 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 ...
Pilots Dick Rutan, right, and Jeana Yeager, after a test flight in 1985. They became the first aviators to fly around the world without stopping or refueling. (Doug Pizac/AP) For nine days in ...
Amerikanerna Dick Rutan och copiloten Jeana Yeager skrev historia när de 1986 flög jorden runt på nio dygn utan att tanka eller mellanlanda. Nu har Rutan, 85, gått bort. – Han hanterade ...