Burt Rutan (born 1943) has been described as a visionary and as the single most influential designer of aircraft and airframes in the last half of the twentieth century. His ideas have affected military and general aviation aircraft and air transports...

Byline: ERIC ADAMS ** Lotus founder Colin Chapman was one of Burt Rutan's first customers. It's a little-known piece of both automotive and aviation history, a moment when two geniuses from largely separate fields came together and just clicked. In 1981...

Burt Rutan knows what he wants and he doesn't aim low. "I would like to achieve a goal that NASA has neglected: to make flight outside the atmosphere accessible to common man by making sub-orbital flights available to 'space tourists,'" he says. Rutan...

An explosion on Thursday at a Mojave Desert airport left two people dead and four others injured, authorities said.It was not immediately clear what caused the blast, which happened around 2:45 p.m. in a remote section of the Mojave Air and Space Port, said Tony...

A fatal explosion at a Mojave Desert airport during testing of a propellant system for a new space tourism vehicle has shaken a small community that prides itself as the hometown of the first private space launch.The blast Thursday at a remote test facility belonging...