Scaled Composites' BiPod is a hybrid gasoline-electric roadable aircraft designed by Burt Rutan, featuring twin fuselages and removable wings for garage storage. It is designed for dual functionality, ...

Burt Rutan designed a new amphibious aircraft, the SkiGull, capable of landing on snow, water, and land. The SkiGull is constructed from composites or titanium for durability in harsh environments and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scaled Composites flew this unique Burt Rutan-designed aircraft for the first time on Aug. 1 from Mojave Airport in the Southern California desert. Its designation and mission are not known, and ...

MEREDITH, N.H. (AP) — Burt Rutan was alarmed to see the plane he had designed was so loaded with fuel that the wing tips started dragging along the ground as it taxied down the runway. He grabbed the ...

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 ...

- 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 ...

Aircraft designer Burt Rutan is working on a new aviation project in the Idaho lake house where he retired only seven months ago after a 45-year career that produced SpaceShipOne, Voyager and dozens ...