MEREDITH, N.H. - 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 ...

For those of you who were enthralled with the X-Prize for personal space travel (I honestly feel that Burt Rutan's victory in that contest was one of the biggest engineering accomplishments that ...

Designed by perhaps the most creative aircraft designer now living, Burt Rutan, this spacecraft won the $10 million Ansari X Prize. The prize, set up to encourage the development of space tourism ...

After Burt Rutan won that first X-Prize with his SpaceShip 1, the foundation decided to get its head out of the clouds, so to speak. As a follow-up to the space program, you can probably guess ...

The second man behind the Stratolaunch is Burt Rutan, a giant in the aviation world, who wrote several books on composite construction. There are more Rutan designs on display at the National Air ...

In April 2005 Reverand was awarded a George Foster Peabody Award for his editorial oversight of “Black Sky: The Race for Space,” which chronicled aerospace pioneer Burt Rutan’s three-year ...