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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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    in 1986 piloted the Voyager aircraft on the first non-stop, non-refueled around-the-world flight with co-pilot Jeana Yeager. Rutan was born and raised...
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    development of the Voyager 15. In 2007, Northrop Grumman became the sole owner of Rutan's Scaled Composites. In a 2010 Big Think interview, Rutan articulated...
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    She co-piloted, along with Dick Rutan, the first non-stop, non-refueled flight around the world in the Rutan Voyager aircraft from December 14 to 23,...
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  • Hamsa Voyager, an Indian ultralight trike design Rutan Voyager, the first airplane to fly around the world nonstop without refuelling Bombardier Voyager, a...
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    global circumnavigation flight of the Rutan Voyager. The 110-horsepower (82 kW) IOL-200, also referred to as the Voyager 200, was the rear engine and—unlike...
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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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    landings of the Space Shuttle, and the 1986 around-the-world flight of the Rutan Voyager. A water stop on the Santa Fe Railroad since 1882, the site was largely...
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    (190 km/h) 4.5:1 Cessna 172 gliding 10.9:1 Cruising Lockheed U-2 25.6:1 Rutan Voyager 27:1 Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer 37:1 Gravity drag—rockets can have...
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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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    overall structure. Capable of flying non-stop round the world, the Rutan Voyager was a canard design with tractor propeller, in which the twin booms...
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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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  • from The Planets; Hans Mark of NASA; David Urie and Paul Landry; the Rutan Voyager, which flew around the world without refuelling; the aerospike engine;...
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  • world from Treasure Island, San Francisco to LaGuardia Field. Rutan Voyager, Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager 9 days, 3 minutes and 44 seconds 14 December...
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    from the original on March 24, 2018. Retrieved December 25, 2018. "Rutan Voyager". Smithsonian: National Air and Space Museum. Archived from the original...
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    Yeager is not related to Jeana Yeager, one of the two pilots of the Rutan Voyager aircraft, which circled the world without landing or refueling. In some...
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    The current record for the longest non-stop, non-refueled airplane flight in history (9 days and 3 minutes) was achieved in the Rutan Voyager...
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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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    and the civilian National Test Pilot School. The town was home to the Rutan Voyager, the first aircraft to fly around the world nonstop and unrefueled....
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    being refueled. This record stood for 55 years until broken by the Rutan Voyager. Bristol The experimental Bristol Phoenix of 1928–1932 was successfully...
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    to retrofit the Citation X. Conventional winglets were fitted to Rutan's Rutan Voyager, the first aircraft to circumnavigate the world without refueling...
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    Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer (category Rutan aircraft)
    non-refueled circumnavigation, beating the mark set by the previous Rutan-designed Voyager aircraft at 9 days 3 minutes with an average speed of 116 miles...
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  • the nine days (216 hours) of the 1986 round-the-world flight of the Rutan Voyager. In March 2013, the project was sold to EADS Astrium (now Airbus Defence...
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    takeoff weight, between 26% for medium-haul to 45% for long-haul. The Rutan Voyager took off on its 1986 around-the-world flight at 72 percent, the highest...
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  • in pilots during the first non-stop around-the-world flight in the Rutan Voyager . The company was the first to release active noise cancelling headphones...
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  • piston engines. Powered by a liquid-cooled version of the IO-240, the Rutan Voyager was the first piston-powered aircraft to circumnavigate the world without...
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    killing 2 people. December 14 – Rutan Voyager, an experimental aircraft designed by Burt Rutan and piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, begins its flight...
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  • Program Dick Rutan, Voyager Aircraft, Inc. Successful around-the-world non-stop, non-refueled flight of the Voyager aircraft Jeana Yeager, Voyager Aircraft...
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    combustion engine-powered UAV record ratified by the FAI. Only the Rutan Voyager has flown longer unrefueled (aircraft endurance records). In November...
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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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