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  2. Rutan Boomerang - Wikipedia

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    The Rutan Model 202 Boomerang is an aircraft designed and built by Burt Rutan, with the first prototype taking flight in 1996. [1] The design was intended to be a multi-engine aircraft that in the event of failure of a single engine would not become dangerously difficult to control due to asymmetric thrust.

  3. Critical engine - Wikipedia

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    The critical engine of a multi-engine fixed-wing aircraft is the engine that, in the event of failure, would most adversely affect the performance or handling abilities of an aircraft. On propeller aircraft, there is a difference in the remaining yawing moments after failure of the left or the right (outboard) engine when all propellers rotate ...

  4. Burt Rutan - Wikipedia

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    Boomerang. A departure from the canard design was the 1996 Boomerang, perhaps one of the unconventional designer's most unconventional aircraft. The aircraft, the Rutan model 202 Boomerang, is an asymmetric twin-engine tractor configuration aircraft with one engine on the fuselage and another mounted on a pod.

  5. Dick Rutan, who set an aviation milestone when he flew ... - AOL

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    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 ...

  6. Twin-boom aircraft - Wikipedia

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    Jet engine efficiency was hampered by long intake and exhaust trunks, as were used on many early designs, and one solution was to use twin booms to shorten the exhaust trunking to the minimum, such as de Havilland used on their successful Vampire and Venom jet fighters.

  7. Today's Wordle Hint, Answer for #1338 on Sunday, February 16 ...

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    Hints and the solution for today's Wordle on Sunday, February 16.

  8. Scaled Composites - Wikipedia

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    Both companies said Northrop Grumman's acquisition would not affect Scaled Composites' strategy or involve replacing Burt Rutan as senior manager. [2] The acquisition by Northrop Grumman was completed on August 24, 2007. [3] Rutan retired in April 2011. [4] Ben Diachun, a long time employee, was president of Scaled from Oct 31, 2015, [5] until ...

  9. Romanian court lifts house arrest of internet celebrity ...

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    BUCHAREST (Reuters) -A Romanian court lifted a house arrest order against internet personality Andrew Tate, replacing it with a lighter preventative measure pending the outcome of a criminal ...