Business
Aerospace legend Burt Rutan ready for a landing
April 1, 2011
Travel & Experiences
They flew around the world in a plane originally sketched on the back of a napkin.
Dec. 24, 1986
Dick Rutan co-piloted the Voyager around the world in 1986, taking off from and landing at Edwards Air Force Base without stopping in one of aviation’s greatest feats.
May 8, 2024
World & Nation
Jeana Yeager and Dick and Burt Rutan certainly deserve their Presidential Citizens Medals and applause for their considerable accomplishment with the Voyager flight.
Jan. 8, 1987
Richard Branson’s and Burt Rutan’s firms will start a company to design suborbital craft.
July 29, 2005
California
Dick Rutan, co-pilot of the Voyager, is at home in the air.
March 14, 2014
Voyager, the first aircraft to fly nonstop around the world without refueling, could have gone on as far as Seattle instead of landing at Edwards Air Force Base, the plane’s designer, Burt Rutan, told the Legislature.
Jan. 9, 1987
Archives
After years of hard work with nothing but the internal rewards of a dream coming to realization, Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager flew around the world and fulfilled Burt Rutan’s dream design.
The state says Burt Rutan’s Scaled Composites must pay $25,870 for deaths at its Mojave facility.
Jan. 19, 2008