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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 Quickie Q2 or Q2 is a two-seat version of the unique Rutan Quickie, produced in kit form by the Quickie Aircraft Corporation founded by Tom Jewett...
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    Hall of Fame. Rutan has five aircraft on display in the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum: the VariEze, Quickie, Voyager, SpaceShipOne...
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    (models Quickie, Quickie Q2, and Quickie Q200 aircraft). The original single-seater Quickie was designed by Burt Rutan and company founders Gene Sheehan...
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  • Stores, an Ottawa-based grocery chain Quickie Aircraft, an aircraft manufacturer of the United States Rutan Quickie, a light single seat homebuilt aircraft...
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    techniques pioneered by Burt Rutan at Rutan Aircraft Factory (RAF). The airframe design is visually similar to the RAF's Quickie 2, which was developed independently...
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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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    once again in the homebuilt market. Up-and-coming maverick designer Burt Rutan was working on a low-powered but highly efficient plane for home construction...
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  • Quick Special (Quickie Aircraft Corp (founders: Tom Jewett & Gene Sheehan), Mojave, CA) Rutan Quickie Quickie Q2 Quickie Q200 Quickie Free Enterprise...
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    Brothers' early aircraft were of the canard type; Mignet Pou-du-Ciel and Rutan Quickie are of tandem type. Some early three surface aircraft had front elevators...
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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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    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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  • 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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    The Rutan VariEze is a composite, canard aircraft designed by Burt Rutan. It is a high-performance homebuilt aircraft, hundreds of which have been constructed...
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  • called simply Scaled) is an American aerospace company founded by Burt Rutan and currently owned by Northrop Grumman. It is located at the Mojave Air...
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    small landing gear in the wingtips. Some uncommon designs, like the Rutan Quickie, and Convair XFY placed the main landing gear in the wingtips. Some...
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  • 'Vulcoon' Rearwin 8135 'Cloudster Republic F-105B 'Thunderchief' Rutan Quickie Rutan VariEze Sikorsky S-16 Replica Sikorsky R-4B 'Hoverfly' Sikorsky LH-34D...
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  • Holcomb Perigee Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era Rutan Quickie "Micro IMP". www.mini-imp.com. Retrieved 2024-08-13. Taylor 1982, pp...
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    Noralpha PZL-Mielec Lim-6bis PT-17 Stearman Rans S-4 Coyote Rutan Model 61 Long-EZ Rutan Quickie Ryan PT-22 ST-3KR WindRyder The museum also features an exhibit...
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    AMSOIL Racer (redirect from Rutan Model 86)
    research and calculations, Rutan produced three preliminary designs, and the least radical of these was chosen. Like the Model 54 Quickie tandem wing that he...
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  • Thunderbolt Robinson R22 Robinson R44 Astro Rotorway Scorpion Too Rutan Quickie Rutan VariEze Ryan PT-22A Recruit SPAD XVI Schweizer SGU 2-22EK Sharp DR...
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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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    behind the other. Both provide significant lift. An example is the Rutan Quickie. To provide longitudinal stability, the wings must differ in aerodynamic...
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  • of 3rd course at Kuybyshev Aviation Institute, started research on Rutan Quickie using as initial data a single publication in Finnish aviation magazine...
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    Scaled Composites Proteus (category Rutan aircraft)
    is a tandem-wing high-altitude long-endurance aircraft designed by Burt Rutan to investigate the use of aircraft as high-altitude telecommunications relays...
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    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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    Corporation. Archived from the original on 3 July 2016. Retrieved 24 May 2017. "QUICKIE". Canada Aviation and Space Museum. Canada Science and Technology Museums...
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    Oregon's aerospace history. Displays include Globe Swift Nieuport 17 Rutan Quickie Grumman A-6E Intruder McDonnell Douglas A-4 Skyhawk Mitchell Wing B-10...
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  • Seabee C-FLJC Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5 (7/8-scale replica) F1910 Rutan Quickie C-GTDV Schreder Airmate HP-11 CF-QIR Stinson Reliant CF-OAZ Supermarine...
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