"Innovations"
Many technological advances in aviation are due to the
persistence of innovative pioneers inspired to step well beyond the accepted
norms. The Museum's "Innovations" gallery displays and celebrates a wide variety
of aircraft at the cutting edge of aviation achievement. The airplanes in this
gallery have broken literally dozens of world records - the fastest, the
highest, the furthest - even the smallest.
Dick Rutan and Jeanna Yeager's globe-circling flight in the Voyager is a case in
point. Under the guidance of Burt Rutan, this remarkable aircraft was built by a
handful of people incorporating common homebuilding technology.
The Musuem's Voyager exhibit, features an accurate replica of the aircraft that
accomplished the first non-stop, non-refueled flight around the world in 1986.
Visitors can look inside the spartan cockpit where the crew lived for nine days.
RUTAN/HERRON QUICKIE – N2WX
Gene Sheehan, Tom Jewett, and Burt Rutan cooperatively designed and built the
Quickie in April 1977,
Rutan VariEze Prototype - N7EZ
Burt Rutan’s prototype VariEze (“very easy”) made its public debut at the 1975
EAA Oshkosh Fly-In.
helicopter
autogiro
car plane
hot air balloon carriage
