I discovered several videos that make me believe the next person to shake the aerospace world the way Burt Rutan, now retired, did is not at the MITs or Stanfords of the world, but at your local model airplane field.
Two videos below from the 2010 Academy of Model Aeronautics (AME) annual EXPO the wonderful things that can happen when a young mind (above is Scaled Composites creator Burt Rutan at age 5) is allowed to tinker, experiment and push the bounds of what is considered proper as only a young mind can do.
In this case, the two newsmakers are Rutan, and his senior structural engineer, Dan Kreigh, both of whom gave fantastic talks, complete with video, at the AMA Expo last year.
P.S. You'll find out more about the freaky twin-engine design above in Kreigh's talk (bottom).
My life flying models Burt Rutan from Academy of Model Aeronautics on Vimeo.
Dan Kreigh at AMA Expo 2010 from Academy of Model Aeronautics on Vimeo.
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