The Rutan VariViggen is a homebuilt aircraft designed by Burt Rutan. The aircraft is a tandem two-seater of primarily wooden construction with a delta...
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Work on the VariEze design, which grew out of Rutan's experience designing and building the VariViggen, began in 1974. The first prototype, designated...
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SP, Rutan model 32. The VariViggen was named in honor of the Saab 37 Viggen, a canard-configured fighter jet developed in Sweden. One VariViggen, built...
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The Rutan Model 76 Voyager was the first aircraft to fly around the world without stopping or refueling. It was piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager...
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The Rutan Model 61 Long-EZ is a tandem 2-seater homebuilt aircraft designed by Burt Rutan's Rutan Aircraft Factory. The Long-EZ has a canard layout, a...
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The Rutan Model 202 Boomerang is an aircraft designed and built by Burt Rutan, with the first prototype taking flight in 1996. The design was intended...
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The Rutan Model 40 Defiant is a four-seat, twin-engine homebuilt aircraft with the engines in a push-pull configuration. It was designed by aerospace...
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Scaled Composites (redirect from Rutan Aircraft Factory)
of runway to lift-off. Burt Rutan created Rutan Aircraft Factory to market a commercial variation of his Model "VariViggen" prototype" he began building...
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(Englins-language page).[] (retrieved 15 May 2014) "A unique database on Burt Rutan and his projects!". Stargazer. Online. 2006. Archived from the original...
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The Rutan Model 54 Quickie is a lightweight single-seat taildragger aircraft of composite construction, configured with tandem wings. The Quickie was...
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The Mojave Air and Space Port at Rutan Field (IATA: MHV, ICAO: KMHV) is in Mojave, California, United States, at an elevation of 2,801 feet (854 m). It...
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Scaled Composites founder Burt Rutan when he flew to California to show Rutan the VariViggen he had built at his home. Rutan then hired him on the spot....
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aircraft. The Viggen also inspired the American Burt Rutan to create a two-seater homebuilt canard delta design, accordingly named VariViggen and flown in...
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Manned Bede BD-5J Caproni Vizzola A-21SJ Chagnes Microstar (version of Rutan VariViggen) EFF Prometheus 19 EFF Prometheus 12 Microjet 200 NASA AD-1 slew wing...
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The Rutan Model 72 Grizzly is a tandem-wing STOL research aircraft designed by Burt Rutan, now preserved at the EAA AirVenture Museum, Oshkosh. The aircraft...
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Piper PA-28-140 Cherokee Cruiser Republic RC-3 Seabee Rotec Rally Rutan VariViggen Sport Fury Stoddard-Hamilton Glasair II FT Stinson 10A Stinson SR-5...
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AMSOIL Racer (redirect from Rutan Model 86)
also known as the Rutan Biplane Racer and the Rutan Model 68 Racer, was a race tandem wing plane which was designed by Burt Rutan's Rutan Aircraft Factory...
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anniversary of the Sputnik 1 launch, by the Tier One project designed by Burt Rutan and financed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, using the experimental...
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List of civil aircraft (section Rutan)
Composites) Rutan VariViggen two-seat canard pusher Rutan VariEze two-seat canard pusher Rutan Defiant four-seat twin-engine cabin pusher Rutan Quickie single-seat...
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List of aircraft (R) (section Rutan)
Monoplane (Burt Rutan) Rutan Boomerang Rutan Grizzly Rutan SkiGull Rutan Solitaire Rutan Long-EZ Rutan Quickie Rutan VariEze Rutan VariViggen Rutan Model 27...
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development aircraft, 1 built Rutan VariViggen 1972 homebuilt, about 20 built Rutan VariEze 1975 2 seat homebuilt, about 400 built Rutan Long-EZ 1979 2 seat homebuilt...
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158) was a twin-engine twin-boom aircraft developed for Bob Pond by Burt Rutan and his company Scaled Composites. Bob Pond commissioned the design with...
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was in the process of designing the Model IV Autoplane, based on a Rutan VariViggen. Bryan Special Alternative name for the Bryan Model I Bryan Model I...
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Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer (category Rutan aircraft)
Atlantic GlobalFlyer (registered N277SF) is an aircraft designed by Burt Rutan in which Steve Fossett first flew a solo nonstop airplane flight around...
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homebuilt, ca.800 built Rutan VariEze 1975 2 seat homebuilt, ca.400 built Rutan VariViggen 1972 homebuilt, ca.20 built Santos-Dumont 14-bis 1906 first public...
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Scaled Composites Catbird (redirect from Rutan catbird)
single-engine all-composite general aviation aircraft designed by Burt Rutan. It is unusual in that it incorporates both a small forward wing and a small...
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British/American spacecraft manufacturing company that was founded by Burt Rutan and Richard Branson in mid-2005 and was jointly owned by Virgin Group (70%)...
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propeller. This follows the configuration established by the Rutan VariViggen and VariEze. The single engine is a Rotron Wankel engine based on Rotron's...
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Scaled Composites Model 367 BiPod (category Rutan aircraft)
developed by Scaled Composites. It was the final aircraft designed by Burt Rutan prior to his retirement. The Bipod was originally designed to be an electric...
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SpaceShipOne were designed by Burt Rutan and manufactured by Scaled Composites, a private company founded by Rutan in 1982. On three separate flights...
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