Rutan Voyager

One of the most significant recent aircraft is the Rutan Voyager, an all-composite plane in Figure 1-42 which was flown around the world non-stop in 1989. Burt Rutan of the Rutan Aircraft Factory created a seemingly endless line of all-composite aircraft in the 1980s and 1990s. 

Figure 1-42 Rutan Voyager (Courtesy of Scaled Composites)...

Burt Rutan and Jeanna Yeager, USA, designed and built the Voyager. This twdn-boomed airplane using advanced RP composites is the first to fly around the world without refueling. 

Composites were introduced into nonmilitary aircraft by pioneers such as Bert Rutan, whose Voyager airplane that flew nonstop around the world without refueling and his SpaceShipOne that won the X-prize built almost entirely from laminated composites. Rutan s company. Scaled Composites is known for its use of nonmetal, fiber-composite materials in the development of concept aircraft, and prototype fabrication processes. 

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