an esteemed aerospace design engineer known for developing the Rutan Voyager, the airplane that completed the first nonstop, non-refueled flight around the world in 1986. The Long-EZ aircraft came ...

said his brother Burt Rutan, an aerospace engineer who designed the spindly Voyager and was at his bedside. Rutan was 85. After 20 years in the Air Force, Dick Rutan joined his younger brother's ...

Voyager left from Edwards Air Force Base in California just after 8 a.m. on Dec. 14, 1986. Rutan said with all that fuel, the wings had only inches of clearance. Dick couldn't see when they ...