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 ...
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 ...
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.
At the age of 85, Dick Rutan, an icon of aeronautical achievement and a decorated Vietnam War veteran, bid the world farewell on May 3, 2024. His final moments, spent in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, were ...
An "experienced pilot" has died after two gliders crashed while coming into land at an airfield. Emergency services were scrambled after the two aircraft collided at the private airfield in Hinton ...
A PILOT has died after two gliders crashed into each other while coming in to land at an airfield in today. Cops, fire engines and ambulances rushed to the airfield in Hinton-in-the-Hedges ...
An "experienced pilot" has died after two gliders crashed while coming into land at an airfield. Emergency services were scrambled after the two aircrafts collided at the private airfield in Hinton-in ...
William Anders captured the iconic Earthrise showing the planet as a shadowed blue marble from space in 1968 when he and ...
A Royal Air Force pilot has died after a Spitfire crashed into a field near RAF Coningsby, in Lincolnshire. Police and emergency services rushed to the scene on Langrick Road at just before 1.20pm on ...
A 62-year-old kindergarten teacher in Japan adopted the dog from an animal shelter in 2008, according to The Wall Street ...