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 miles in ...

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 during the ...

- But without the syphilitic insanity, of course. I read about this today : the Scaled Composites "Bipod" : http://www.scaled.com/projects/bipod Seems Burt had turned ...

The last aircraft designed by Burt Rutan, founder and CTO of Scaled Composites, Mojave, Calif., appears to be the Bipod, a hybrid gas-electric plane that can also be driven on roads and highways like ...

Burt Rutan, former Design News Engineer of the Year and winner of the Ansari X-Prize for his SpaceShipOne rocket plane, will be the keynote speaker at the SolidWorks 2005 User Conference, which kicks ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Burt Rutan invigorated the homebuilt aircraft movement when he began selling the plans to build his VariEze ('very ...

Washington D.C., April 15, 2008 — The National Space Society (NSS) announced today that famed aircraft and spacecraft designer Burt Rutan will receive the Heinlein award for lifetime achievement in ...

Fame in the aerospace industry has been typically reserved for the people who pilot flying machines — Charles Lindbergh, Amelia Earhart, Chuck Yeager, Neil Armstrong. Not so much for the people who ...

Click to open image viewer. In 1974, Tom Jewett and Gene Sheehan decided to begin designing an airplane that would provide "more flying enjoyment for less money" than other homebuilt aircraft designs ...

New ideas are powerful things, even when they are wrong. Aviation legend Dick Rutan is not criticising his younger brother when he says the aerodynamic ideas of the now-retired founder of Scaled ...