Burt Rutan

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aerospace engineer aircraft designer entrepreneur human inventor

Burt Rutan is an innovative American aerospace engineer and aircraft designer renowned for pioneering unconventional composite aircraft and private spaceflight vehicles such as SpaceShipOne.

Aliases (1)

Dick Rutan ×1

Statements (54)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	aerospace engineer → aircraft designer → entrepreneur → human → inventor →
academicDegree	Bachelor of Science in Aeronautical Engineering →
awardReceived	Charles A. Lindbergh Award → Collier Trophy → National Medal of Technology and Innovation → Wright Brothers Memorial Trophy →
birthDate	1943-06-17 →
birthPlace	Estacada, Oregon, United States →
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America →
designed	Model 76 Voyager → Rutan Boomerang → Rutan Catbird → Rutan Defiant → Rutan Long-EZ → Rutan Quickie → Rutan VariEze → Rutan Voyager → SpaceShipOne → Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer → White Knight carrier aircraft →
educatedAt	California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo →
employer	Rutan Aircraft Factory → Scaled Composites →
familyName	Rutan →
fieldOfWork	aerospace engineering → aircraft design → spaceflight →
founded	Rutan Aircraft Factory → Scaled Composites →
givenName	Elbert →
influenced	homebuilt aircraft movement → private spaceflight industry →
knownFor	GlobalFlyer aircraft → Long-EZ aircraft → SpaceShipOne → VariEze aircraft → Voyager aircraft → design of unconventional aircraft → private spaceflight vehicles → use of composite materials in aircraft →
name	Burt Rutan →
notableAchievement	led design team that won the Ansari X Prize with SpaceShipOne → pioneered extensive use of composite materials in light aircraft →
notableWork	SpaceShipOne suborbital spaceplane → Voyager non-stop around-the-world flight aircraft →
positionHeld	chief designer at Scaled Composites → founder of Scaled Composites →
residence	Mojave, California, United States →
sibling	Dick Rutan →
spouse	Tonya Rutan →

Referenced by (16)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
GlobalFlyer → Model 281 Proteus → Model 318 White Knight → Proteus → Rutan Voyager → Rutan Voyager ("Dick Rutan") → SpaceShipOne → Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer → White Knight →	designer
Proteus → White Knight →	designedByCompanyFoundedBy
WhiteKnightTwo →	designedBy
Scaled Composites →	foundedBy
Scaled Composites →	founder
Scaled Composites →	keyPerson
Burt Rutan →	name