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    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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  • 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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    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 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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    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 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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  • (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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • Mojave Aerospace Ventures (MAV) is a company founded by Paul Allen and Burt Rutan to handle the commercial spinoffs from the Tier One project. It owns the...
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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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    SpaceShipOne and its launcher White Knight. The craft was designed by Burt Rutan, and the project was funded 20 million US Dollars by Paul Allen. In 2004...
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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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    at very low altitudes and resistance to stall would be necessary. Burt Rutan joined their study to design an aircraft to meet the requirements with a...
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