MEREDITH, N.H. (AP) — 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.
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 ...
MEREDITH, N.H. (AP) — 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 ...
Pilots Dick Rutan, right, and Jeana Yeager, after a test flight in 1985. They became the first aviators to fly around the world without stopping or refueling. (Doug Pizac/AP) For nine days in ...
A pilot has died after a Spitfire crashed in a field near an RAF base in Lincolnshire. Emergency crews were called to the scene on Langrick Road in Coningsby following reports the plane went down ...
The Royal Air Force has confirmed that a Spitfire pilot has died in a crash during a Battle of Britain event near RAF Coningsby, Lincolnshire. 'It is with great sadness that we must confirm the ...
At the age of 85, Dick Rutan, an icon of aeronautical achievement and a decorated Vietnam War veteran, bid the world farewell on May 3, 2024. His final moments, spent in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, were ...
A PILOT has died after two gliders crashed into each other while coming in to land at an airfield in today. Cops, fire engines and ambulances rushed to the airfield in Hinton-in-the-Hedges ...