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Burt
Rutan - Reinventing the Airplane
by Vera Foster Rollo
289 Pages - hard cover
$24.50
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A
biography of Burt Rutan from his early designs through
the Ares, Pond Racer, and Pegasus cruise missle. Covers
Burts design influences, his development of composite
materials, and the evolution of his historical accomplishments.
Lots of coverage is given to the early Variviggen, the
Vari-Ez / Long Ez designs, the Beech Starship, and of
course the inside story behind the Voyager round-the-world
effort.
An
interesting history of the man who has had the most
influence in the craft we are flying today, since the
Wright Brothers. It's a fun and enjoyable read, even
if your not building with that "other" material.
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TABLE
OF CONTENTS
As the World Watched
1
Growing Up
6
The Rutan ancestry
13
The man who saved the Phantom
23
Working for Bede
27
The Variviggen design
32
Pioneering in composites
39
The "mind-boggler" design
44
A sensation at Oshkosh
50
Homebuilders and the EA
57
Design pioneer
63
Problems and solutions
65
The AD-1 "skew wing" airplane
70
Mojave desert - air frontier
72
Homebuilders make planes
80
The great years of design
84
1978 - a potpourri of events
88
Dick Rutan
94
The RAF team expands
98
The Long-EZ; design to success
106
A pivotal year
110
Patricia Storch
117
Suprising new designs 1981-'82
121
Voyager idea emerges
133
Scaled Composites company
138
The Grizzly, model 72
141
RAF and Scaled
144
Enter Beech aircraft
152
1983 and changes
155
Voyager's first flight
160
1985 - adventures and changes
167
A society wedding
171
Rutan and the homebuilt movement 174
Jeanna Yeager
177
The year of the Voyager
180
Voyager takeoff roll - Wow
184
The inside story of Voyager
194
The Beech Starship
208
The "Mojave Yacht Club"
218
Worldwide; pilots fly Rutan designs 225
Rutan revises Pentagon thinking
232
The Pond Racer
241
Into the '90s
246
Rutan innovations
258
Comparison with Wright brothers
262
The future 266
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