Long-EZ Rutan’s best-selling homebuilt ... the Boomerang is an approach to the problem of making a twin-engine airplane safe in the event of an engine failure. In this case, one engine is ...

For those out of the loop, the Rutan Long-EZ was a homebuilt swept-wing aircraft with a canard layout and wingtip rudders. It featured a pusher engine and propeller and a tricycle landing gear.

On April 3 there was a short e-mail from Dick Rutan to ... and the canard; the Long-EZ, a completely redesigned, larger variation upon the VariEze; and the twin-engine Defiant.

Chad Slattery When I first saw the Boomerang, Burt Rutan’s twin-engine, asymmetric, five-place, long-range oddity, my reaction, like that of a number of Rutan fans who witnessed the airplane’s ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Microsoft Flight Simulator X: Steam Edition - Rutan 61 Long EZ The Microsoft Flight ... of flight dynamics for both engine types (AvCo Lycoming O ...

And behind the controls of his highly modified Rutan Long-EZ, Yates has claimed five records ... Minor electrical problems during a test flight led to an engine with no power, curtailing his ...

After this he would fly as a test pilot for a range of aircraft, including a modified Rutan Long-EZ: the XCOR EZ-Rocket in 2001. Yet no flight would be as memorable as the record-breaking flight ...

XCOR Aerospace demonstrated two key aspects of its reusable rocket engine technology in two flight tests of its modified Rutan Long-EZ kitplane testbed - one deliberately and one inadvertently.

The gasoline-electric twin ... engines drive generators that keep the juice flowing. Design No. 367 -- the craft is named in accordance with the simple numbering system long used by Rutan ...

a modified Rutan Long-EZ kitplane, flew on 24 July during a runway test at Mojave, California. The EZ-Rocket is powered by two 400lb-thrust (1.8kN) regeneratively cooled rocket engines designed by ...

After this he would fly as a test pilot for a range of aircraft, including a modified Rutan Long-EZ: the XCOR EZ-Rocket in 2001. Yet no flight would be as memorable as the record-breaking flight ...