MEREDITH, N.H. (AP) — Burt Rutan was alarmed to see the plane he had designed was so loaded with fuel that the wing tips started dragging along the ground as it taxied down the runway.
Pilots Dick Rutan, right, and Jeana Yeager, after a test flight in 1985. They became the first aviators to fly around the world without stopping or refueling. (Doug Pizac/AP) For nine days in ...