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Dick Rutan and test pilot Mike Melvill flew two around the world in 1997 (the year that John Denver crashed his and died). In 2001, XCOR Aerospace replaced the pusher engine with a rocket ...
Head on, the Boomerang may be hard to fathom, but it’s easy to control — even if one engine quits. Chad Slattery When I first saw the Boomerang, Burt Rutan’s twin-engine, asymmetric ...
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The Last Beechcraft Starships
Although it is not a typical warbird or vintage aircraft, its mystique, rarity, and the involvement of legendary designer ...
The second man behind the Stratolaunch is Burt Rutan ... engine, and blast off into space. Instead, SpaceShipOne would be carried to altitude by WhiteKnightOne, a twin-fuselage carrier aircraft.