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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.The flight took off from Edwards Air Force Base's 15,000 foot (4,600 m) runway in the Mojave Desert on December 14, 1986, and ended 9 days, 3 minutes and 44 seconds later on December 23, setting a flight endurance record.
1986 Rutan Voyager on display in the National Air and Space Museum. The Rutan model 76 Voyager was the first airplane to fly nonstop, without refueling around the world. Piloted by Rutan's brother Dick and Jeana Yeager the airplane made the round the world flight over 9 days in December 1986. [43]
Model 73 NGT: Three-fifths scale model of Fairchild T-46 trainer (1981) Model 72 Grizzly (1982) Model 76 Voyager: First aircraft to circumnavigate the Earth non-refueled, non-stop (1986) Model 77 Solitaire (1982) Model 81 Catbird (1988) five-seat single-engine aircraft; Model 202 Boomerang: (1996) Asymmetric 5 seat aircraft
A decorated Vietnam War pilot, Dick Rutan died Friday evening at a hospital in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, with Burt and other loved ones by his s Dick Rutan, who set an aviation milestone when he ...
Ryan NYP Spirit of St. Louis Douglas DC-3. The original location for the display of the Smithsonian's collection of aerospace artifacts is the National Air and Space Museum, located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. [2] Most of the more famous artifacts in the collection are displayed here, including the Wright Flyer, Charles Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis, and the Apollo 11 Command ...
9 Rutan Model 76 Voyager. 1 comment. 10 Mislabeled Rutan personal aircraft as Scaled Composites Aircraft. 2 comments. 11 More citations and sources are needed. 2 ...
n November 1954, 29-year-old Sammy Davis Jr. was driving to Hollywood when a car crash left his eye mangled beyond repair. Doubting his potential as a one-eyed entertainer, the burgeoning performer sought a solution at the same venerable institution where other misfortunate starlets had gone to fill their vacant sockets: Mager & Gougelman, a family-owned business in New York City that has ...
Rutan Voyager, Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager: 9 days, 3 minutes and 44 seconds 14 December 1986 23 December 1986 first aircraft to fly around the world without stopping or refueling from Edwards Air Force Base [41] Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones: 19 days, 21 hours, and 55 minutes 1 March 1999 21 March 1999