Rutan designed the model, procured two small jet engines ... Rutan’s 31st airplane, the mantis-like Proteus is multi-mission but one of a kind. Invented as a broadband tower in the sky, it ...

whose stall-proof canard aerodynamics he had investigated using a large radio-controlled model mounted on a gimbal atop a moving car. In his Mojave shop, Rutan had a fuselage shell for a BD-5 ...

The Model 281 Proteus and Model 401 Sierra were on static display at Nellis Air Force Base for Aviation Nation 2025. Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, hosted the Aviation Nation 2025 airshow on Apr ...

But aviation and space enthusiasts will also have a chance to get up close and personal with the fascinating Proteus model ... Scaled Composites' founder Burt Rutan to be a "high-altitude ...

Potential missions include reconnaissance, atmospheric research, commercial imaging, and, ultimately, serving as a launch platform for a three-passenger spacecraft (Proteus designer Burt Rutan is ...

As a teen growing up outside San Francisco, Rutan was consumed with building model aircraft ... He was intrigued by the Proteus, a one-of-a-kind Rutan aircraft designed for NASA that could ...

The Model 367 BiPod is flown from the right pod and driven from the left. It is not the first Rutan design aircraft to buck the aviation tradition of being piloted from the left seat. The final ...

Piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, the Rutan Model 76 Voyager had just completed its non-stop flight around the world after taking off from that very same runway just over nine days prior.

The team at Scaled Composites pulled out all the stops to realize the final design of the company's founder and former CTO, Burt Rutan ... which is also known as Model 367, saying it is continuing ...

Burt Rutan, the man behind the only aircraft to fly non-stop around ... The rocket and capsule that will take the astronauts into space will be air-launched from a derivative of his Proteus ...

The Model 281 Proteus and Model 401 Sierra were on static display at Nellis Air Force Base for Aviation Nation 2025. Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, hosted the Aviation Nation 2025 airshow on Apr ...