Mr. Reagan will greet the Voyager crew and Burt Rutan, Dick Rutan’s brother and ... battering Yeager inside the phone booth-size cabin. And on takeoff, its wings dragged along the runway and ...

Piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, the Rutan Model 76 Voyager had just completed its non-stop flight around the world after taking off from that very same runway just over nine days prior.

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 ...

Piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, the Rutan Model 76 Voyager had just completed its non-stop flight around the world after taking off from that very same runway just over nine days prior.

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 ...

He was 85. Credit: AP/Jake Schoellkopf Voyager left from Edwards Air Force Base in California just after 8 a.m. on Dec. 14, 1986. Rutan said with all that fuel, the wings had only inches of clearance.

On April 3 there was a short e-mail from Dick Rutan to “All.” It said: Just a note … had a going away lunch at the Voyager Cafe Mojave with Burt and Tonya; after lunch they got in the car ...

If Burt Rutan stopped innovating right now ... He created the first plane to circle the globe nonstop (Voyager, in 1986) and the first private craft to take a pilot to space, twice within two ...

“Dick never doubted whether my design would actually make it around, with still some gas in the tank,” Burt Rutan said. Voyager left from Edwards Air Force Base in California just after 8 a.m ...