Burt Rutan

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

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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


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