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 ...EEK ENDING 22 AUGUST 1981
INTERNATIONAL
viation
Oshkosh report
Agricultural Aircraft guide
Dick Rutan, brother of canard designer Burt,
taxies the record-breaking LongEz at Oshkosh
with his partner Jeanna Yeager. They plan a
transglobal flight in a Rutan desig...
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 ...ed problems of
stability and wing design.
Voyager is designed for a still-air
range of 28,000 miles on standard
avgas, cruising at lOOkt or less. The
substantial margin of extra range
will give Dick Rutan and Jeana
Yeager the freedom to detour around
any bad weather rather than abort
ing; the low cruise altitude means
that only 24hr worth of oxygen need
be carried (so that the aircraft ...
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 ...ings
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Burt Rutan's round-the-world
Voyager aircraft is in the
second phase of its flight-test
programme. While many tech
nical problems have been over
come, brother Dick Rutan and
copilot Jeana Yeager now face
a daunting human endurance
test. Robin Blech takes a look
at the aircraft and talks to the
crew in Mojave, California.
Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager ho...
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 ... of the VariEze,
came in for a lot of attention at Osh-
kosh 80. His brother Dick aerobatted
it daily and stretched its low-drag
qualities to the ultimate. But long be
fore this year's convention Dick Rutan
achieved a remarkable and little-
publicised world record in the Long
Ez prototype. He flew solo non-stop
for over 33hr on a closed-circuit flight
of 4,800 miles—a spectacular test of
...
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 ... brothers; Burt Rutan has
designed and is building a global air
craft for brother Dick's Voyager Air
craft Corporation, formed by Dick
Rutan and Jeana Yeager specifically
to attempt the flight. (Dick Rutan
holds class distance records in Burt's
Long-Eze.)
The two teams are taking very dif
ferent approaches to the problem.
Quickie aims to go high and fast, ex
ploiting the jet stream, wit...
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 ...frared system for
night use
9 Salient unusual visual features
of the X-29A, ACT Jaguar,
T-46, AFTI/F-16, Sikorsky
Shadow
10 Saab's new fighter (designa
tion and name)
General Aviation
1 Name Dick Rutan's round-the-
world aircraft
Latest model Gulfstream
Common ground for Beech,
Gates Learjet, Cessna
Name the maker: Merlin
300, CAP 10, Laser 300, Astra,
T67
World's biggest air show ...
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 ...RIVATE FLIGHT
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Voyager
prepares
to fly
MOJAVE
The Voyager canard aircraft
in which Dick Rutan and
Jeanna Yeager will attempt
the first non-stop unrefuelled
flight around the world should
be flying with its new engine
combination within the next
six weeks. An attempt on the
t^...
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 ...pose-built
racing aircraft using state-of-the-art manu
facturing and propulsion technology could
be used for air racing in the future.
Pond floated the concept with round-the-
world Voyager pilot Dick Rutan at the
Experimental Aircraft Association's
Oshkosh show, and in 1988 contracted
Rutan's brother Burt's Scaled Composites
company to design and produce a proto
type. Dick Rutan later be...
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 ...lton Brown,
US National Aeronautic
Association record secretary
described last month's
California/Pacific Coast
flight of the Voyager aircraft,
writes Norman Lynn from
Los Angeles.
Piloted by Dick Rutan and
Jeana Yeager, the spindly,
lightweight twin-engined
Voyager flew more than
11,593 miles unrefuelled
(equivalent to almost halfway
around the world) in 20 laps
over a closed circu...
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 ...e crashed
at Tushino, Moscow in mid-
1993, but modifications have
reportedly improved perform
ance. The plant was due to
complete 20 aircraft by the end
of 1993 and another 200 dur
ing 1994. •
Dick Rutan plans American epic
Dick Rutan, who, with Jeana Yeager, made the world's
only non-stop, unrefuelled
round-the-world flight in the
Voyager, plans to fly 13,000km
(7,000nm) across North,...
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 ...e aircraft revealed an
unstable phugoid oscillation
of around one cycle per
second, which the autopilot
could not damp out. The
length of the flight, which will
take 12 days, means that
pilots Dick Rutan and Jeana
Yeager will need an effective
ARV Super2s took three of the top 12 places in the DEC Schneider Trophy race, held at Bembridge, Isle
of Wight
Disabled win
flying prizes
FAIRF...
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 ...mory is available to indi
cate why BAe didn't help
Westland when asked by the
British Government to do so a
year ago (correction: not quite
very nearly asked).
• From Mail on Sunday
Magazine: "Dick Rutan,
tall, wiry with an easy
smile, flew more than three
hundred combat missions in
Vietnam—he was a 'wild
weasel' flyer going in to take
the flak for the bombers. At
46, the retired Air...
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 ...
many felt that the issue
should not be addressed solely
by spending . Government
funds, especially trust fund
money needed for numerous
other aviation projects.
Turbulence tests Voyager team
Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager are still waiting for high winds to moderate before the next test
flight leading to their globe-circling attempt. Voyager's handling, and air sickness suffered by
the pro...
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 ...FLIGHT International, 13 August (980
Yamaha two-stroke, and the whole
aircraft can be folded up into a 16ft-
long pack for transport on a car roof.
There were several versions of the
Easy Riser bi...
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 ...
round-the-world flight is now
planned for September-
December this year, writes
Norman Lynn. "The
weather window opens here in
September and closes in
December, so that's when we
must do it," Dick Rutan tells
Flight.
The temporary engines
which have powered Voyager
since its rollout have been
replaced by new Teledyne
Continental supercharged
reciprocating piston engines
of a new de...
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 ...22-36 passengers, and says that
for future commuter designs the en
gines must not be wing-mounted. He
will also be working on the Voyager
round-the-world record-breaking pro
ject for his brother Dick Rutan. This
aims to have a 28,000-mile range for
a non-stop flight by two people taking
perhaps ten days, and for the last
part of the flight one engine will be
shut down.
Rutan is working ...
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 ...RIVATE FLIGHT
Voyager
breaks
record
MOJAVE ~ ~
Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager
have made the longest flight
yet in the Voyager aircraft,
exceeding the world closed-
course distance record of
11,336-9 miles. Voyager com
pleted 20 laps, of a circui...
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 ...Voyager
to fly
Navstar
OLATHE
If it succeeds, Voyager's non
stop round-the-world flight
will establish another first—
the first round-the-world
flight using satellite-based
global positioning...
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 ...r.
"We are not letting Reno drive
the programme," says a Scaled
Composites official. The aircraft
was expected to fly last month.
Scaled Composites, which also
built the Voyager aircraft which
Dick Rutan and Jeanna Yeager
flew around the world un-
refuelled, has made several
design changes to the Pond Racer
since plans for the aircraft were
announced earlier this year.
The use of metha...
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 ...comparison, doesn't it.
•Thatabsolute endurance
record set by die Breitling
Olympic Orbiter balloon, of
9 days 17h 51min, was al
most 18h longer than the
previous record unrefu-
elled aloft, by Dick Rutan
and Jeana Yeager in the
round-the-World Voyager.
It's also 15 times the dura
tion of die longest non-stop
scheduled flight your
Uncle can find in the Big
Book of Boring Journeys (15 ...
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