The iconic Rutan Varieze, with its sleek lines and swept wings, changed the landscape of homebuilt aircraft. With laminar flow airfoils...

Continuing to design aircraft for his Composite Canard Revolution, in 1978 Burt Rutan designed and flew the world’s safest twin engine...

In the world of homebuilt airplanes the number of plans or kits sold isn’t really a good metric of how successful a design might be. What...

Fifty years ago Burt Rutan flew an entirely new type of homebuilt aircraft made from foam and fiberglass, materials not typically seen in...

In the darkness of early Saturday morning my phone buzzed. I was not ready to get out of bed that early, but wasn’t fast asleep either....