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Legendary aerospace designer Burt Rutan is retiring

“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 design the technology.

Maverick aeronautical engineer Burt Rutan may be an exception.”

Full story here at L.A. Times

via Boing Boing

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