Burt Rutan Wiki: Salary, Married, Wedding, Spouse, Family
Elbert Leander "Burt" Rutan (born June 17, 1943) is an American aerospace engineer noted for his originality in designing light, strong, unusual-looking, energy-efficient aircraft. He designed the record-breaking Voyager, which was the first plane to fly around the world without stopping or refueling, and the sub-orbital spaceplane SpaceShipOne, which won the Ansari X-Prize in 2004 for becoming the first privately funded spacecraft to enter the realm of space twice within a two-week period. He has five aircraft on display in the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., United States: SpaceShipOne, the Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer, Voyager, Quickie, and the VariEze.
Net Worth
$12 Million
Date Of Birth
June 17, 1943
Place Of Birth
Portland, Oregon, USA
Profession
American engineer
Nationality
United States
Spouse
Tonya Rutan
Parents
George and Irene Goforth Rutan
Nicknames
Burt Rutan, Rutan, Burt
Star Sign
Gemini
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Quote
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When there's ever a breakthrough, a true breakthrough, you can go back and find a time period when the consensus was "well, that's nonsense!", so what that means is that a true creative researcher has to have confidence in nonsense.
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Fact
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Has nearly forty original flight patents, including SpaceShipOne and its support vehicle White Knight, the first privately built aircraft to reach suborbital space.
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Winner of the 10 million dollar X-prize competition in 2004 for putting the first privately built aircraft in to sub-orbital space. Within two weeks his aircraft named "Spaceship One" made two flights above 62 miles in altitude, reaching zero gravity and was capable of carrying the pilot and two passengers.
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Designed the first aircraft (named "voyager") to fly around the world non-stop without refueling in 1986.
Thanks
Title
Year
Status
Character
Fracture
2007
thanks
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Looking Up, Way Up! The Burt Rutan Story
2017
Documentary filming
Himself
Visioneer: The Peter Diamandis Story
2015
Documentary
Himself
Flying the Feathered Edge: The Bob Hoover Project
2014
Documentary
Naked Science
2011
TV Series documentary
Himself - Aerospace Engineer
Virgin Galactic
2010
TV Series
Himself
Space Travelers
2009
Documentary
Himself
TED: The Future We Will Create
2007
TV Movie documentary
Himself
What Goes Up
2005
Short
Himself
Explorations
2005
TV Series documentary
Himself
60 Minutes
2004
TV Series documentary
Himself - Aeronautical Engineer (segment "The Next Space Race")
Black Sky: Winning the X Prize
2004
TV Movie documentary
Himself
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
2004
TV Series
Himself
Black Sky: The Race for Space
2004
TV Movie documentary
Himself
Reaching for the Skies
1988
TV Series
Himself
Archive Footage
Known for movies
Visioneer: The Peter Diamandis Story (2015) as Himself
TED: The Future We Will Create (2007) as Himself
Flying the Feathered Edge: The Bob Hoover Project (2014) as Actor