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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Burt Rutan canonical 35
Dick Rutan 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf aerospace engineer
aircraft designer
entrepreneur
human
inventor
academicDegree Bachelor of Science in Aeronautical Engineering
awardReceived Lindbergh Award
surface form: Charles A. Lindbergh Award

Collier Trophy
National Medal of Technology and Innovation
Wright Brothers Memorial Trophy
birthDate 1943-06-17
birthPlace Estacada, Oregon
surface form: Estacada, Oregon, United States
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
designed Rutan Voyager
surface form: Model 76 Voyager

Rutan Boomerang
Rutan Catbird
Rutan Defiant
Long-EZ aircraft
surface form: 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 Charles Hercules Rutan
surface form: Rutan
fieldOfWork aerospace engineering
aircraft design
spaceflight
founded Rutan Aircraft Factory
Scaled Composites
givenName Elbert
influenced homebuilt aircraft movement
private spaceflight industry
knownFor GlobalFlyer
surface form: GlobalFlyer aircraft

Long-EZ aircraft
SpaceShipOne
VariEze aircraft
Rutan Voyager
surface form: Voyager aircraft

design of unconventional aircraft
private spaceflight vehicles
use of composite materials in aircraft
name Burt Rutan self-link
notableAchievement led design team that won the Ansari X Prize with SpaceShipOne
pioneered extensive use of composite materials in light aircraft
notableWork SpaceShipOne
surface form: SpaceShipOne suborbital spaceplane

Voyager non-stop around-the-world flight aircraft
positionHeld chief designer at Scaled Composites
founder of Scaled Composites
residence Mojave, California
surface form: Mojave, California, United States
sibling Dick Rutan
spouse Tonya Rutan

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Scaled Composites foundedBy Burt Rutan
Scaled Composites founder Burt Rutan
Scaled Composites keyPerson Burt Rutan
Rutan Voyager designer Burt Rutan
Rutan Voyager designer Burt Rutan
this entity surface form: Dick Rutan
Burt Rutan name Burt Rutan self-link
SpaceShipOne designer Burt Rutan
White Knight designer Burt Rutan
WhiteKnightTwo designedBy Burt Rutan
Model 318 White Knight designer Burt Rutan
GlobalFlyer designer Burt Rutan
Proteus designer Burt Rutan
Model 281 Proteus designer Burt Rutan
VMS Eve designedBy Burt Rutan
RAeS Gold Medal notableRecipient Burt Rutan
VSS Enterprise designer Burt Rutan
Rutan Aircraft Factory founder Burt Rutan
Jeana Yeager associatedWith Burt Rutan
N269VA designer Burt Rutan
subject surface form: Rutan Voyager
Dick Rutan sibling Burt Rutan
Dick Rutan hasRelative Burt Rutan
Rutan Catbird designer Burt Rutan
VariEze aircraft designer Burt Rutan
subject surface form: VariEze
Long-EZ aircraft designer Burt Rutan
subject surface form: Long-EZ
Rutan VariEze designer Burt Rutan
White Knight carrier aircraft designedBy Burt Rutan
subject surface form: White Knight
Tonya Rutan spouse Burt Rutan
Tier One program associatedWith Burt Rutan
N328KF associatedWithDesigner Burt Rutan
RocketMotorOne associatedWith Burt Rutan