On December 23, 1986, Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager landed at Edwards Air Force Base after completing the first nonstop, unrefueled flight around the world aboard the Voyager aircraft.
TaildraggerHow Burt Rutan's SpaceShipOne used aviation-first engineering to win the 2004 Ansari X Prize and permanently expand what aviation can claim as its territory.
VectorOn December 23, 1986, Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager landed at Edwards AFB after flying 24,987 miles around the Earth on a single load of fuel - aviation's last great first.
TaildraggerHow Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager flew the Rutan Voyager around the world nonstop in December 1986, landing with just 18 gallons to spare.
TaildraggerOn December 23, 1986, Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager landed at Edwards after flying nonstop around the world in Burt Rutan's Voyager - with 18 gallons to spare.
TaildraggerHow Burt Rutan's feathering wing solved spacecraft reentry without a heat shield - the aerodynamic insight that launched commercial space tourism.
VectorOn December 14, 1986, Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager completed aviation's last great first - a nonstop, unrefueled flight around the world in the Voyager aircraft.
TaildraggerOn December 14, 1986, Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager departed Edwards AFB and flew nonstop, unrefueled around the world in 9 days, 3 minutes, and 44 seconds.
TaildraggerOn December 14, 1986, Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager flew a homebuilt composite aircraft called Voyager around the entire Earth - nonstop, unrefueled - in nine days.
TaildraggerThe Beechcraft Starship sold only 53 aircraft and cost up to $500 million to develop, but its certification work built the regulatory foundation for every composite GA aircraft flying today.
TowerDick Rutan and Jeana Yeager completed the first nonstop, unrefueled circumnavigation of the globe in December 1986, flying 24,986 miles in nine days aboard the homebuilt Voyager.
TaildraggerOn December 14, 1986, Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager flew Voyager nonstop around the world in nine days without refueling, completing one of aviation's last great firsts.
TaildraggerOn December 14, 1986, Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager completed the first nonstop, unrefueled circumnavigation of the Earth, landing after 216 hours aloft in an aircraft built by hand in a desert hangar.
TaildraggerHow Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager flew 26,366 miles around the Earth without landing or refueling - nine days in a cockpit two feet wide.
TaildraggerHow Voyager and its crew flew nonstop around the world without refueling in 1986 - the design, the risks, and the record.
TaildraggerHow Voyager made the first nonstop, unrefueled flight around the world in 1986, landing with under 50 pounds of fuel to spare.
TaildraggerIn 1986, Voyager flew nonstop around the world unrefueled - here's the full story of that record-setting nine-day flight.
TaildraggerHow Voyager flew around the world nonstop and unrefueled in 1986, the last great milestone of atmospheric flight.
TaildraggerThe story of the Rutan Voyager, the featherweight aircraft that flew nonstop around the world in 1986 without refueling.
TaildraggerIn December 1986, Voyager flew nonstop around the world without refueling - the story of the last great first in aviation.
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