Photos: Aerospace legend Burt Rutan retires
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Burt Rutan retires
With little fanfare, the maverick engineer, 67, plans to step out of the spotlight for good as he retires from the Mojave design firm he founded in 1982, Scaled Composites.
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Another irreplaceable aviator must be replaced. Only a very few can match his genuis and now we must find a young man with a vision.
Thank you, Mr. Rutan, for all the good you have done in my lifetime.---j