an esteemed aerospace design engineer known for developing the Rutan Voyager, the airplane that completed the first nonstop, non-refueled flight around the world in 1986. The Long-EZ aircraft came ...

said his brother Burt Rutan, an aerospace engineer who designed the spindly Voyager and was at his bedside. Rutan was 85. After 20 years in the Air Force, Dick Rutan joined his younger brother's ...

Their aircraft was the Rutan Model 76 Voyager, a lightweight craft that could carry more than four times its weight in fuel. Rutan’s brother, Burt, designed and built the craft over a six-year span.