Watched the flight this morning on webcast. Burt is the man.

Michael

Not happy with the current selection of space cadets? ;)

Burt's too smart to take the job.

Dave Reinhart


Michael 182 wrote:

> Watched the flight this morning on webcast. Burt is the man.
>
> Michael

New Yorker magazine just ran an article on Burt. Brilliant, but a bit of a
nut case.
Radu

"Michael 182" > wrote in message
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> Watched the flight this morning on webcast. Burt is the man.
>
> Michael
>
>

"Radu Tenenbaum" > wrote in message
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> New Yorker magazine just ran an article on Burt. Brilliant, but a bit of
> a nut case.

He'd have to be. No sensible person would have accomplished nearly
everything he's accomplished so far in his lifetime.

>> New Yorker magazine just ran an article on Burt. Brilliant, but a bit of
>> a nut case.
>
>He'd have to be. No sensible person would have accomplished nearly
>everything he's accomplished so far in his lifetime.

I read that article today; Rutan didn't strike me as a nut case. That
other couple, Rod and Randa Milliron, seemed a good bit nutier than
Rutan.

vince norris

Naaah. There is one too many politician wannabees in aviation already.

{;-)


Jim



Jim Weir (A&P/IA, CFI, & other good alphabet soup)
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"Michael 182" > wrote in message news:<Rie8d.176868$D%.157526@attbi_s51>...
> Watched the flight this morning on webcast. Burt is the man.
>
> Michael

Now why would you go and insult the man like that? :-)

If I was the president, the job envy would be the other way around.

Bryan

SpaceShipOne did what the gummint did in 1961 with the X-15/B-52, and
they had to have a software billionaire dump a big big wad of cash on
them to do it. I'm sorry, the Rutans are not my heroes. They have been
a glorified hobby outfit for twenty years. Only one Rutan design has
become a production aircraft and the company is buying them all
back.....

>Naaah. There is one too many politician wannabees in aviation already.

Jim I'll bet you'll agree that the more GA pilots we have have
government, the better off we'll be. I specify "GA" pilots, becasuse
John McCain, whom I admire, is, unfortunately, NOT a friend of GA.

To get back to the original suggestion, I suspect Burt Rutan would be
as big a disaster as a President as Bush or Kerry would as aircraft
designers.

vince norris

> HAHA you could beat burt rutan over the head with a lead pipe and
> he'd still do a better job than dumbass bush.

Not this man? http://www.ehowa.com/show/media.html?image=sovereignty.wmv