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The Rutan Model 202 Boomerang is an aircraft designed and built by Burt Rutan, with the first prototype taking flight in 1996. [1] The design was intended to be a multi-engine aircraft that in the event of failure of a single engine would not become dangerously difficult to control due to asymmetric thrust .
Boomerang. A departure from the canard design was the 1996 Boomerang, perhaps one of the unconventional designer's most unconventional aircraft. The aircraft, the Rutan model 202 Boomerang, is an asymmetric twin-engine tractor configuration aircraft with one engine on the fuselage and another mounted on a pod.
Aircraft designed by Burt Rutan and/or built by Scaled Composites fall under this category. ... Pages in category "Rutan aircraft" ... Rutan Boomerang; D. Rutan ...
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. Nine days and three minutes later ...
Rutan achieved the milestone with Jeana Yeager when they departed Edwards Air Force Base flying for 9 days in a specially constructed aircraft designed by his brother Burt Rutan.
Both companies said Northrop Grumman's acquisition would not affect Scaled Composites' strategy or involve replacing Burt Rutan as senior manager. [2] The acquisition by Northrop Grumman was completed on August 24, 2007. [3] Rutan retired in April 2011. [4] Ben Diachun, a long time employee, was president of Scaled from Oct 31, 2015, [5] until ...
Rutan Model 33 VariEze; Rutan Model 35 AD-1; Rutan Model 40 Defiant; Rutan Model 49; Rutan Model 54 Quickie; Rutan Model 61 Long-EZ; Rutan Model 68 AMSOIL Racer; Rutan Model 72 Grizzly; Rutan Model 73 NGT: Three-fifths scale model of Fairchild T-46 trainer; Rutan Model 74 Defiant; Rutan Model 76 Voyager: First aircraft to circumnavigate the ...
The Scaled Composites Pond Racer (Company designation Model 158) was a twin-engine twin-boom aircraft developed for Bob Pond by Burt Rutan and his company Scaled Composites. Reason for creation [ edit ]