Burt Rutan
Sign in to saveAlso known as Elbert Leander "Burt" Rutan
American aerospace engineer (born 1943)
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Burt Rutan is widely regarded as one of the world's most important industrial designers, and his prolific contributions to air- and spacecraft design have driven the industry forward for decades. His two companies, Rutan Aircraft Factory and Scaled Composites, have developed and flight-tested more new types of aircraft than the rest of the US industry combined. He has himself designed hundreds of aircraft, including the famous Voyager, which his brother piloted on a record-breaking nine-day nons
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Estacada
- Sibling
- Dick Rutan
- Occupation
- engineer
- Educated at
- California Polytechnic State University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Academic degree
- aerospace engineer
- Field of work
- aeronautics
- Official website
- www.burtrutan.com
- Image
- Burt Rutan - Cropped.JPG
- Residence
- Coeur d'Alene
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- Commons category
- Burt Rutan
- date of birth
- 1943-06-17
- birth name
- Elbert Leander Rutan
- time in space
- 0
- start of work period
- 1965-00-00
- name in native language
- Burt Rutan
- has works in the collection
- National Air and Space Museum
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