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  1. Rutan Voyager

    The Rutan Model 76 Voyager was the first aircraft to fly around the world without stopping or refueling. It was piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager. The flight took off from Edwards Air Force Base 's 15,000 foot (4,600 m) runway in the Mojave Desert on December 14, 1986, and ended 9 days, 3 minutes and 44 seconds later on December 23 ...

  2. The Rutan Voyager

    Voyager departing the coast of California on Dec. 14, 1986, soon to leave behind Burt Rutan in the Duchess chase plane. As it turned out, you needed 17 tanks of fuel all in one vehicle from start to finish. Voyage r, the ultimate homebuilt, was the brainchild of unconventional designer Burt Rutan and two record-setting pilots, his brother Dick ...

  3. Rutan Voyager

    This object is not on display at the National Air and Space Museum. It is either on loan or in storage. Around the World in Nine Days On December 23, 1986, Voyager completed the first nonstop, non-refueled flight around the world. Pilots Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager completed the flight in nine days. 1984 United States of America CRAFT-Aircraft ...

  4. Rutan Voyager

    On December 23, 1986, nine days, three minutes, and 44 seconds after taking off, Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager touched down at Edwards Air Force Base, CA, in the Rutan Voyager aircraft to finish the first flight around the world made without landing or refueling. Rutan's brother Burt had designed Voyager but it was the availability of carbon-fibers coated with epoxy allowing Burt to design an ...

  5. No Stopping, No Refueling

    The Rutan Model 76 Voyager, the first aircraft to circle around Earth without stopping or refueling, embarked on its historic flight at Edwards Air Force Base in California in the Mojave Desert. This westerly flight of 26,366 statute miles (42,432 kilometers) would end with great success nine days, three minutes, and 44 seconds later. ...

  6. Voyager's Nonstop Around-the-World Adventure

    When Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager landed at California's Edwards Air Force Base in the Rutan Voyager on December 23, 1986, they completed a historic flight that tested the limits of aircraft design and human endurance. The pair had left Edwards on December 14, having spent nine days and three minutes in the air during their nonstop, unrefueled ...

  7. Rutan Voyager: The First Plane To Circumnavigate The World Without

    The Rutan Voygaer holds the record for the longest flight in the world even today. The Rutan Voyager Model 76 was the first plane to successfully circumnavigate the globe without making any stops at all. The thin airframe took five years to develop and set off on its journey on December 14th, 1986, landing a full nine days later on December 23rd.

  8. Around the world, non-stop!

    Around the world, non-stop! 25th Anniversary of the most incredible flight ever. This year marks the 25 th anniversary of the most incredible flight ever by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager. The Rutan Model 76 Voyager was the first aircraft to fly around the world without stopping or refueling. The aircraft was first imagined by Jeana, Dick, and his brother Burt Rutan as they were at lunch in 1981.

  9. Aerospaceweb.org

    DESCRIPTION: The Voyager earned its place in history after becoming the first airplane to make a non-stop flight around the world without refueling. The story of the Voyager began when famed aeronautical engineer Burt Rutan formed Scaled Composites and began constructing revolutionary home-built aircraft. His designs, like the VariEze, used ...

  10. Voyager completes global flight

    Piloted by Americans Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, Voyager was made mostly of plastic and stiffened paper and carried more than three times its weight in fuel when it took off from Edwards Air ...

  11. Dick Rutan

    Dick Rutan. Richard Glenn Rutan (July 1, 1938 - May 3, 2024) was an American military aviator and officer. He was also a record-breaking test pilot who in 1986 piloted the Voyager aircraft on the first non-stop, non-refueled around-the-world flight with co-pilot Jeana Yeager.

  12. Dick Rutan, co-pilot of around-the-world flight, dies at 85

    Rutan died Friday at a hospital in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, after suffering from a lung infection. His brother Burt Rutan, an aerospace engineer who designed the spindly Voyager, was at his bedside ...

  13. Burt Rutan

    Burt Rutan (born June 17, 1943, Portland, Oregon, U.S.) is an American aircraft and spacecraft designer who was perhaps best known for SpaceShipOne, which in 2004 became the first private crewed spacecraft. Rutan was raised in Dinuba, California, where he and his elder brother, Dick, developed a strong interest in flight at an early age.

  14. From Point A to Point A

    The primary material in Voyager is a kind of sandwich: two layers of graphite fiber composite with paper honeycomb in between. Rutan knew that an airplane made of these materials would be light ...

  15. A retrospective of Burt Rutan's high-performance art

    Design by Rutan. The Editors. January 2012. Rutan's 31st airplane, the mantis-like Proteus, is multi-mission but one of a kind. Jim Sugar. You can always tell a Burt Rutan airplane, just as you ...

  16. Aviator Dick Rutan Tells of Record-Breaking Flight Aboard the Voyager

    Rutan made aviation history in 1986 when he flew the first non-stop flight around the world alongside Jeana Yeager aboard the Voyager, an airplane designed by his brother Burt Rutan, and built by Burt, Dick and Jeana. On December 14, 1986, the Voyager took off from Edwards Air Force Base and returned to the same airport nine days, three minutes ...

  17. Dick Rutan, co-pilot of historic round-the-world flight, dies at 85

    Rutan, a decorated Vietnam War pilot, who along with copilot Jeana Yeager completed one of the greatest milestones in aviation history: the first round-the-world flight with no stops or refueling, died late Friday, May 3, 2024. He was 85. (Reneh Agha/Daily Press via AP, File) FILE - Sir Richard Branson, left, shakes hands with record breaking ...

  18. 'Dick Rutan was, and will forever be, Misty Four-Zero'

    A life begun 85 years ago in Loma Linda, California, included setting what his family called "the last great aviation record" with the nonstop flight around the world in the Rutan Model 76 Voyager, designed by younger brother Burt Rutan, in 1986.Dick Rutan's life ended on May 3 in a hospital in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, with his family and longtime friend Bill Whittle present.

  19. Dick Rutan, co-pilot of historic round-the-world flight, dies at 85

    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. Dick couldn't see when they ...

  20. Dick Rutan, Who Flew Around the World Without Refueling, Dies at 85

    Paul Harris/Getty Images. By Trip Gabriel. May 8, 2024. Dick Rutan, who in 1986 commanded the first aircraft to make a nonstop flight around the world without refueling — an aviation milestone ...

  21. Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer

    The Scaled Composites Model 311 Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer (registered N277SF) is an aircraft designed by Burt Rutan in which Steve Fossett first flew a solo nonstop airplane flight around the world in slightly more than 67 hours (2 days 19 hours) in 2005. The flight speed of 342 miles per hour (550 km/h) set the world record for the fastest nonstop non-refueled circumnavigation, beating the ...

  22. Scaled Composites

    Scaled Composites (often called simply Scaled) is an American aerospace company founded by Burt Rutan and currently owned by Northrop Grumman.It is located at the Mojave Air and Space Port in Mojave, California, United States.Founded to develop experimental aircraft, the company now focuses on designing and developing concept craft and prototype fabrication processes for aircraft and other ...