The Awesome Airplanes of Burt Rutan

Friday, August 05, 2011 at 06:51 PM ET

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Key Takeaways:

Burt Rutan is a legendary and prolific aircraft designer known for a wide range of innovative creations, from homebuilt aircraft to experimental research planes.
He gained significant recognition with early designs like the all-composite VariEze for homebuilders and achieved global fame with the record-breaking Voyager flight in 1986.
Rutan was a pioneer in private spaceflight, designing the White Knight which launched the first civilian manned space flights, and contributing to Virgin Galactic's suborbital spaceplane.

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A look back at the creations of a legendary aircraft designer.

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