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Elbert L. "Burt "Rutan (* 17. June 1943 in country, Oregon) grow up in Dinuba, California be a American air and engineer.

In the year 1965 it graduated to the Californa Polytechnic University. From 1965 to 1972 it was active for US air Force as a flight test engineer on the Edwards' air Force cousin in California. In March 1972 it accepted the post of the director of the Bede test center for Bede aircraft in Newton, Kansas. it pulled and created 1974 with its family after Mojave, California the Rutan aircraft Factory.

1982 created Burt Rutan the company Scaled Composites, which develops airplane prototypes, on the average one per year unorthodox with 130 coworkers. The Design works thereby partially very daringly, then are asymmetrically designed some the models.

One of the last constructions is first privately financed spaceship SpaceShipOne.Am 3. March 2005 succeeded for the first time to fill up the GlobalFlyer designed by Burt Rutan a world orbiting with only one pilot without.

At the end of July 2005 based it together with the British billionaire Richard Branson the private space undertaking Virgin Galactic. The company is to operate fleet with altogether five aerospace planes of the type SpaceShipTwo.

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Burt Rutan got, among other things many prices and honors:

  • Chrysler Award for innovation in the Design
  • "Engineer OF the Year "of Design news
  • British gold Medal for Aeronautics
  • Collier Trophy
  • Presidential Citizen's Medal
  • Ansari X-Prize

Constructions

For a list of the developed types of aircraft of Burt Rutan see Scaled Composites.

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