Dick Rutan, along with copilot Jeana Yeager, completed one of the greatest milestones in aviation history: the first ...
Dick Rutan co-piloted the Voyager around the world in 1986, taking off from and landing at Edwards Air Force Base without ...
Famed pilot Richard “Dick” Rutan has died. Rutan earned distinction during a 19-year military career involving Vietnam War ...
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 ...
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 ...
Dick Rutan, who with copilot Jeana Yeager completed the first round-the-world flight without stops or refueling, died Friday.
Close friends of the late Dick Rutan are planning a memorial event on June 15 at the Mojave Air and Space Port. The famous pilot from Mojave died on Friday.
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 December ...
Dick Rutan, an aviation pioneer with deep roots in Kern County, died Friday at the age of 85. Rutan was a decorated Vietnam ...
Famed aviator Dick Rutan, perhaps best known for his history-making nonstop, non-refueled around-the-world flight of the Voyager, died Friday in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. He was 85.