Stock Photo - Elbert Leander ´Burt´ Rutan born June 17, 1943 in Estacada, Oregon is an American aerospace engineer noted for his originality in designing light, strong, unusual_looking, energy_efficient aircraft, and considered the ´second true innovator´ in the field of aerospace materials technology, after German engineer Hugo Junkers, who pioneered the design of all_metal aircraft in 1915. He is most famous for his design of the record_breaking Voyager, which was the first plane to fly around the world w

Stock Photo: Elbert Leander 'Burt' Rutan born June 17, 1943 in Estacada, Oregon is an American aerospace engineer noted for his originality in designing light, strong.

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