While Rutan was readying Voyager for its first flight ... Raptor D-2 The second Raptor was large enough for its test pilot to fit inside. Beginning in 1995, it was one of several aircraft to ...

Long before inventing SpaceShipOne and Voyager—the first aircraft to circle the world nonstop and unrefueled—Burt Rutan revolutionized ... It had more room inside. It had a different kind ...

said his brother Burt Rutan, an aerospace engineer who designed the spindly Voyager and was at his bedside. Rutan was 85. After 20 years in the Air Force, Dick Rutan joined his younger brother's ...

Their aircraft was the Rutan Model 76 Voyager, a lightweight craft that could carry more than four times its weight in fuel. Rutan’s brother, Burt, designed and built the craft over a six-year span.