Dick Rutan, along with copilot Jeana Yeager, completed one of the greatest milestones in aviation history: the first ...
On a frigid morning in December 1986, the aviation world held its breath as a slender aircraft with wings laden with fuel ...
He and co-pilot Jeana Yeager flew around the globe without stopping or refueling, spending nine days inside a cramped, noisy ...
His nine-day voyage, in a plane designed by his brother that resembled a child’s glider but had wings longer than a Boeing ...
Dick Rutan, who with copilot Jeana Yeager completed the first round-the-world flight without stops or refueling, died Friday.
Dick Rutan, the first co-pilot for the voyager aircraft on the first non-stop, non-refueled around the world flight, died at ...
Dick Rutan co-piloted the Voyager around the world in 1986, taking off from and landing at Edwards Air Force Base without ...
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 ...
Dick Rutan, along with copilot Jeana Yeager, completed one of the greatest milestones in aviation history: the first round-the-world flight with no stops or refueling MEREDITH, N.H. -- Burt Rutan ...
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 ...