Burt Rutan was alarmed to see the plane he had designed was so loaded with fuel that the wing tips started dragging along the ground as it taxied down the runway. He grabbed the radio to warn the ...
Even as a young child growing up in the small Central Valley town of Dinuba, Dick Rutan knew that he wanted to be a pilot. Whenever he heard an airplane, he would gaze up and it seemed the sky was ...
Rutan, known for smooth flying style, survived having to eject twice from planes and being stranded at north pole Burt Rutan was alarmed to see that the plane he had designed was so loaded with ...
Dick Rutan, Co-Pilot of Historic Round-The-World Flight, Dies at 85 MEREDITH, N.H. (AP) — Burt Rutan was alarmed to see the plane he had designed was so loaded with fuel that the wing tips ...