Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Burt Rutan invigorated the homebuilt aircraft movement when he began selling the plans to build his VariEze ('very ...

The filmmakers who traced the rise of the SpaceShipOne rocket plane are now turning their focus to its designer's next high-flying project — which is currently taking shape in his garage. But they ...

Long before inventing SpaceShipOne and Voyager—the first aircraft to circle the world nonstop and unrefueled—Burt Rutan revolutionized the practice of homebuilding airplanes with a 700-pound, ...

Fame in the aerospace industry has been typically reserved for the people who pilot flying machines — Charles Lindbergh, Amelia Earhart, Chuck Yeager, Neil Armstrong. Not so much for the people who ...

An experimental plane crashed near Palm Springs International Airport, killing its two occupants, officials said Saturday. The Air Force alerted Civil Air Patrol officials late Friday that the ...