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Burt Rutan and his Scaled Composites workshop
in California have turned out a prodigious number
of unconventional aircraft designs. Now owned by
Wyman Gordon, the company is venturing into
new ter...
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 ...putting up weight and size by a half and adding another engine or two?
Answer: add elegant supercritical technology as developed
by Dr Richard Whitcomb of iNasa and demonstrated so
convincingly by Burt Rutan with his ingenious VariEze
light aeroplane.
Several years ago Grumman American canvassed its
Gulfstream II customers to find out what they would like
to see in a follow-on. High on the ...
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Prop-swinger Burt Rutan is watched by Gene Sheehan (far left), who
did most of the prototype construction work
looked at closely came from a Honda
CB175 motorcycle, producing 18 h.p.,
but it proved almost impo...
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 ...he V-Jet II, created by Sam Williams and
Burt Rutan to boost interest in small
turbofans, points to a new way forward
GRAHAM WARWICK/WASHINGTON DC
SMALL-TURBOFAN CREATOR Dr Sam Williams and light-aircraft guru Burt Rutan have teamed up to...
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 ...stant lubrication during start-up, has a — 60°F pour point to
ease cold-weather starting, to reduce rust and corrosion, to resist oil
thickening, to protect seals and to reduce spark-plug fouling.
Burt Rutan's new Laser biplane racer will be flown by Dan Mortensen and is sponsored by AMS Oil
winglet effect giving inward lift on
the lower wing. Three different bene
fits are said to accrue fro...
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 ...BUSINESS AVIATION
Starship 1 and GP-1S0 push to the future
WICHITA
While both Beech's Starship 1
and the Learjet-Piaggio GP-
180 have pusher PT6 installa
tions and canards, they have
very differ...
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 ...LIGHT International, IS August 1979 501
I Climbing low-level snap roll for a Pitts of the EAA's aerobatic division. 2 Oshkosh on the second
day, with about 7,000 aircraft on the airfield. 3 Burt Rutan, renowned canard designer, sits under
the spinner of his Defiant twin while he expounds the canard gospel. 4 The Easy Riser was one of
II types in the new ultralight class. 5 Marian Cole'...
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 ...LIGHT International, IS August 1979
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Burt Rutan's display trio: The Defiant twin leads his first canard design, LongEze in close-up. The nose-mounted "rhino" rudder has replaced
the Vanviggen (below) and the new LongEze the VariEze's wi...
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legs retracted. Some bad solar panels
to charge the electrical system, and
one had a nose^mounted rudder which
is being tried as a possible replace
ment for the little rudder on either
winglet. Burt Rutan was there at
lunchtime every day, holding court on
the grass before a mass of VariEze
owners and constructors.
At the end of the line was his new
single^seat taildragger canard, the
Q...
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 ...BUSINESS AVIATION
TwinStar
has mast
problem
WASHINGTON
An airworthiness directive
(AD) requiring the replace
ment of Aerospatiale Twin-
Star main rotor masts has
been issued by the FAA. The
r...
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 ...ces, the leasing arm of
Australian-based Ansett, has
exercised six options it held
on tl :
options were taken last October
when it-• ordered six foils-''
Royce RB.211-powered 75^s.
Designed by Burt Rutan, the Beech
cabin-class twin is designed to take a
variety of powerplants, ranging from
liquid-cooled piston engines (left)
through turboprops to turbofans—in
which form the aircraft fi...
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 ...ew venture
for Rutan
CALIFORNIA
Homebuilt canard specialist
Burt Rutan has opened a new
factory, known as Scaled
Composites, at Mojave. The
new organisation has a
30,000ft2 area and is an
offshoot of the Rutan Aircraft
Factory, formed to carry out
resea...
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 ...tan Aircraft
Factory will not actually build it. The
aircraft will be of carbonfibre com
posite construction and use the Vari-
Eze/LongEz proven concepts of a
canard configuration with winglets.
Burt Rutan is also working on other
projects, including a homebuilt sail
plane kit design for the Soaring
Society of America's design competi
tion, due to be judged later this year.
It is a singl...
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 ...0001b, he says. One
suggested use for a VLEA is
the transport of oil from
Alaska's North Slope, a task
which Iverson says is "pos
sible".
The company employs 23
people and is owned jointly by
Burt Rutan, Iverson, and Pat
Storch. Scaled Composites
has developed the Predator
480 agricultural aircraft for
Advanced Technology Air
craft. Previously, Rutan and
Iverson collaborated on the
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 ...LIGHT International, 25 November 1978 1945
Burt Rutan preaching the canard gospel at the EM convention, Oshkosh
stream will keep the rear propeller
windmilling and make it virtually im
possible to stop the engine if there
has not been a me...
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 ...er the single-engine design, mainly
because of the relative inefficiency of a
pusher propeller for racing needs. The Twin
Mustang-type arrangement was dropped
chiefly because of safety concerns.
Burt Rutan decided that a principal objec
tive was to keep the pilot away from the
dangers of hot coolant, oil, fuel and en
gines. The glazed canopy would also be
fitted with an emergency miniatur...
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 ... Publishing Group
Rutan 202
Secret Rutan 202 aimed for Oshkosh
Scaled Composites is build ing a highly unconventional
new cabin-class light twin,
which could have its maiden
Right shortly.
The Burt Rutan-designed air
craft could make its debut at
the Experimental Aircraft Asso
ciation's August air show at
Oshkosh, Wisconsin.
The previously secret asym
metrical twin-pod shape ap
pears...
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 ...hard to
build a small cabin-class busi
ness twin and a new pressur
ised single, Jim Walsh, presi
dent of the normally reticent
Wichita company tells Flight.
Beech director and pioneer
designer Burt Rutan confirms
the basic outline and per
formance specification for the
new twin, which has pusher
engines mounted on overwing
pods, a canard-type fixed
forward wing, and a conven
tional T...
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 ...ters
must be no longer
than 250 words.
SPACE INNOVATION
Poor Shuttle return
Peter Johnson takes me to task (Flight International, 19-25 October) for comparing
apples with oranges when I compare Burt Rutan with NASA. It is true that Rutan is fol
lowing in the footsteps of earlier NASA operations such as Project Mercury and that the
information gained has enabled him to design with a lot a f...
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 ...1.9 million
Raytheon Beech Baron. We expect
itwill sell well." The manufacturer
has yet to determine the price of
the aircraft after number 20.
Denver, Colorado-based Adam
Aircraft launched die Burt Rutan-
designed M-309 last April. The
aircraft's design was refined in
September, with changes including
a fuselage stretch to accommodate
an airstair door forward of the wing
and replacemen...
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