A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.                                                                                                                    Lao Tzu, “Tao Te Ching” What that saying above means is even the longest and most difficult endeavors or goals start with one small, initial action. Taking the first step is often the hardest part, but it’s essential to begin. Rutan Aircraft Flying Experience has taken its first step into it’s eleventh year

Two weeks ago, Rutan Aircraft Flying Experience members loaded up an unfinished Velocity project and delivered it to Ellington Canard Base. Just last night, RAFE members arrived back from Florida with another flying Rutan LongEZ! Rutan Aircraft Flying Experience is the largest fleet operator of Burt Rutan designs, and this week we increased our fleet of flying aircraft to fourteen! None of this is possible without the dedicated members of ther Rutan Aircraft Flying Experienc

For most things in life you start at the bottom and work your way up. Same for airshow performers. From their roots in aerobatics, formation or other types of airshow flying, they started at the small county airshows gaining experience until their reputations carried them into larger and larger venues. Rutan Aircraft Flying Experience did it backwards. RAFE’s first opportunity to fly in any airshow was the biggest one of them all: AirVenture 2019. That year, Burt Rutan atten

This documents RAFEs policy on becoming a Sponsor Pilot or Canard Flight Academy Instrutor Pilot

As AirVenture 2025 kicks off the 10th Anniversary of Rutan Aircraft Flying Experience, we bring you the final part of the three part...