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    The Rutan Model 76 Voyager was the first aircraft to fly around the world without stopping or refueling. It was piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager...
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    development of the Voyager 15. In 2007, Northrop Grumman became the sole owner of Rutan's Scaled Composites. In a 2010 Big Think interview, Rutan articulated...
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    in 1986 piloted the Voyager aircraft on the first non-stop, non-refueled around-the-world flight with co-pilot Jeana Yeager. Rutan was born and raised...
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    She co-piloted, along with Dick Rutan, the first non-stop, non-refueled flight around the world in the Rutan Voyager aircraft from December 14 to 23,...
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  • Hamsa Voyager, an Indian ultralight trike design Rutan Voyager, the first airplane to fly around the world nonstop without refuelling Bombardier Voyager, a...
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    global circumnavigation flight of the Rutan Voyager. The 110-horsepower (82 kW) IOL-200, also referred to as the Voyager 200, was the rear engine and—unlike...
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    The Mojave Air and Space Port at Rutan Field (IATA: MHV, ICAO: KMHV) is in Mojave, California, United States, at an elevation of 2,801 feet (854 m). It...
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    landings of the Space Shuttle, and the 1986 around-the-world flight of the Rutan Voyager. A water stop on the Santa Fe Railroad since 1882, the site was largely...
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  • from The Planets; Hans Mark of NASA; David Urie and Paul Landry; the Rutan Voyager, which flew around the world without refuelling; the aerospike engine;...
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    (190 km/h) 4.5:1 Cessna 172 gliding 10.9:1 Cruising Lockheed U-2 25.6:1 Rutan Voyager 27:1 Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer 37:1 Gravity drag—rockets can have...
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