Ben Diachun, 42, is president of Scaled Composites, the Burt Rutan-founded aerospace design and manufacturing firm based in Mojave, Calif. The company is known for creating unconventional aircraft ...

Scaled Composites recently took the wraps off its Model 367 BiPod, a hybrid gasoline-electric roadable aircraft designed by the company’s legendary founder Burt Rutan before he retired in April.

If you’ve always wanted to build a Burt Rutan designed aircraft, it’s about to get a lot easier. From the VariViggen to SpaceShipTwo, most of the most important designs to fly over Mojave ...

Burt Rutan: enjoy your retirement, you've earned it :) thanks for being the most inspirational and innovative aviation engineer in the last 50 years. Patrick McGean August 7, 2011 03:37 PM ...

Burt Rutan flies his radio-controlled, tethered model airplane at his home in Coeur d’Alene on Aug. 15. He now envisions developing a hybrid plane that could also navigate rivers and lakes.

Aerospace legend Burt Rutan ready ... As a child, Rutan was an avid model-plane ... he moved to Mojave “because it was cheap enough” and opened Rutan Aircraft Factory on a $15,000 loan from ...

Burt Rutan has designed a flying car, and it is no surprise that it’s unlike any other flying car that’s come before. It’s a hybrid. The gasoline-electric twin-pod vehicle has a range of 760 ...

Burt Rutan 4 Articles ... Piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, the Rutan Model 76 Voyager had just ... After this he would fly as a test pilot for a range of aircraft, including a modified ...

On April 3 there was a short e-mail from Dick Rutan to “All.” It said: Just a note … had a going away lunch at the Voyager Cafe Mojave with Burt and Tonya; after lunch they got in the car ...

Burt Rutan is best known as the designer of the first privately built craft to send people ... It is planning to build the world's largest aircraft, ... I did the Model 205 and 206 preliminary ...

AQRD keeps the last four airworthy Beechcraft Starships flying, preserving a groundbreaking yet commercially unsuccessful ...

Burt Rutan from Scaled Composites has taken a new stab at a workable flying car with the Rutan Designs Model 367 "Bipod." ...