What’s Jow Forums‘s opinion on this man?
Burt Rutan Thread
Austin Lee
David Anderson
Norm McDonald's dad?
Noah Russell
Who?
Eli Richardson
don't know who it is and don't care to find out
Daniel Gonzalez
Isn't he the fuckface that conspired with Clinton to sell all of the US trajectory technology to China?
Lincoln Ross
The guy behind Scaled Composites , famous for building a bunch of planes backwards and having the Chinese copy them.
Isaiah Morgan
He's a legend, but barely Jow Forums at all. He was very influential in shaping modern UAVs and had that one brrtplane but his civilian non-killy-people work is his most significant.
Connor Cook
GENIUS!!!!! Can't wait to fly on it!!!!!
Jacob Perez
He's a personal hero of mine, not just for his pioneering work in aerospace but also for those magnificent sideburns.
Josiah Flores
>those sideburns.
maximum meme faggotry
Kayden Miller
>He doesn't have hair canards
Logan Mitchell
Who is this guy
Andrew Hughes
He is a pretty cool guy. He built a lot of innovative designs.
I met him in '73 at Oshkosh.
Evan Powell
No
Matthew Rogers
Met his brother in person and he's a Dick.
Aaron Hill
>built a shit spaceplane that doesn't work
Into the grave you go, Burt.
The empire of the stars belongs to based Elon.
Nolan Campbell
he is a fucking legend, and is grossly underappreciated.
Noah Mitchell
AFAIK, he doesn't do anything weapons related, so Jow Forums shouldn't give a shit.
As an aerospace engineer, I've watched him for many years. He has some interesting ideas, but he doesn't have the means to make that much of an impact. The internet barons are going to do a lot more in space (and who gives a flying fuck anymore about long duration aircraft) than he will ever be able to do. I expect he'll end up as a footnote, much like Otto Lilienthal. He had a vision, but couldn't capitalize on it.
Brandon Thomas
>civilian non-killy-people work
My grandfather and John Denver both take umbrage with that statement
Isaiah Johnson
har har
Josiah Harris
Elon will be broke soon.
Kayden Carter
Flugetag????
Luis Powell
Skimped on money, for in cockpit( check out the dentist-esque passenger air masks??? Kind of shoddy for space travel big money. Rumor was ditched one on a victory roll ( maybe?)
Juan Jones
but in all seriousness I've met Dick Rutan two seperate years at Airventure and he's a chode. Having war stories doesn't make you automatically cool.
Joseph Taylor
your grandfather can go take his umbridge and sit on it.
Kayden Reyes
Well, Denver died to pilot error, but I'm inclined to give your grandpa the benefit of the doubt.
Lucas Sanchez
>famous for building a bunch of planes backwards and having the Chinese copy them.
>hair canards
lel
Julian Nguyen
yes. surely soon hilldawg and berniebro will win the election. there will be in peaches and two scoops for dumpf.
Dylan Hall
Here's a Rutan/Scaled Composites design that's definitely Jow Forums, shame it's never really gone anywhere. It's sort of a baby A-10, single engine and built around a GAU-12 instead of the GAU-8, and it was intended as a light CAS/COIN bird.
Denver died because the plane was a poorly/stupidly built kit, not because of anything Rutan did.
Jacob Jackson
Space colonization and independence soon, Sieg Elon.
Matthew Kelly
I'd love to see the Defense industry adopt more of his ideas, It would be fucking aesthetic seeing a navalized Rutan airframe landing on a carrier. I have no idea how his A-10 competitor would fare in a real world situation however, but it would be interesting if the DOD goes the route of more drones replacing pilots, so in the end the US military would have three tiers of aviation, a lower-tier with Rutan-like cheaper and easier to maintain airframes that do FAC, mid-tier with drones and high-tier with piloted aircraft (strategic bombers and F-35 type airframes that are extremely sensor-heavy that can control drones and manage battlespaces)
Samuel Long
That's gonna be his kid with Grimes, Zeon Musk.
Anthony Perez
>have no idea how his A-10 competitor would fare
If you're talking about the ARES, it wasn't really an A-10 competitor, it's a much smaller, lighter, and cheaper aircraft. The best thing I can think of to compare it to would be the Super Tucano, which is a very different configuration but fills the same role the ARES was intended for.
Scaled seems to be working on a "descendant" of the ARES now, this crazy stealthy-looking thing. The intended role is anybody's guess. (And it may well just be a tech demonstrator or whatever.)
Juan Sanchez
looks like that protoype stealth aircraft from the 60's that was designed to penetrate airspace using lo viz after Gary Powers got shot.
Jose Rodriguez
The ARES was a cool bird.
Kayden Johnson
According to a quick google, the 401 is designed to demonstrate low cost manufacturing techniques for an unnamed customer (maybe the US gubbament?)
Christian Moore
>Entire Air Force replaced with snazzy simple, tiny, yet capable all composite planes
PLEASE
Jose Moore
>Barely Jow Forums at all
You say of a man who created scaled composites after being so impressed by the Viggen, that he built a working miniature one out of plywood in his Garage.
Caleb Bell
i mean when you think about it, the AF could really be relegated to more of a strategic bomber/logistics/A2A refueling/space command branch.
Brandon Williams
Nearly forgot:
And made a racing aircraft so people would stop cratering classic warbirds.
Not really. I was meaning more replacing every aircraft with an equally capable one designed by Burt Rutan
Julian Carter
That makes sense. Could be another aircraft company too, they're doing some kind of partnership with Northrop Grumman for a T-38 replacement.
Ryan Martin
oh ok. yeah think about the possibilities. they'd have to reinforce the airframes for naval use, and i don't know how corrosion resistant they are but that needs to be addressed for shipboard ops too. but im all for it.
Alexander Cruz
STICC
Cameron Wright
>ywn own a Berkut 540
Ryder Garcia
I much prefer having a thread about neato planes that aren't strictly Jow Forums over the 100+ threads from some autist obsessed with gun youtubers.
Andrew White
Corrosion should be easy enough to deal with for a company that's all about composite airframes. Strength is a different issue, though, and cat shots and deck slamming are particular concerns when landing gear is bolted to ultra-light (i.e. flimsy) carbon fiber structures. A lot of Rutan designs are really good at STOL flying, though, so you might be able to sidestep the issue entirely.
Samuel Harris
>composite airframes
>corrosion
Kek
Thomas Brooks
Literally the John Moses Browning of planes.
Logan Morales
>Elon
Elon Musk is a genious marketer and business man, but he's not a designer or an engineer in any way. And some of the ideas he's pushing are fucking terrible, like that vacuum tube train.
Christian James
Nah, he's a George Kellgren.
Christopher Sanchez
>Manned aircraft starts to phase out
>Ultralight and stealth UAV tech becoming more prominent
Northrop is damn near nutting itself right now looking at where things are going. Scaled Composites is soon gonna be the right hand of Northrop’s attempt at a return to prevalence after sitting around building fuselages for Boeing and Lockheed.
Isaiah Jones
Clarence Johnson was the JMB of aviation
Isaiah Wood
tf does this have to do with Jow Forums
get the fuck out
Lucas Powell
Scaled Composites is a defense contractor, and a ton of Rutan’s tech could be (and probably already is) used for military purposes. The dude takes aeronautical autism to a whole new level.
Jose Rivera
Aerospace autism is inherently Jow Forums related. Things that fly are things that can be made to be shooty and drop shit on people.
Brayden Anderson
>being this new
Summer really has started.
Charles Murphy
>an autist projecting his autism on to others this hard
Adrian Miller
>only defense against being newfag is to call autist autist
>assuming same autist
>derailing thread
Holy shit guys, it’s summer
Jeremiah Hughes
Elon does have literal (or at least literature) prophecy on his side. That said, Rutan has come up with dinner cool designs that look like they will adapt well to the combat UAVs of the future.
Carter James
Go make another videogame thread you absolute child.
Jason Lopez
>dorsal air intake
Well it certainly isn't meant to be maneuverable...
Thomas Edwards
Y'all know he would...
Henry Cox
Autism incarnate
>and that's the way we like it
Adam Green
What does this have to do with weapons?
Owen Johnson
What would you drop and where?
Grayson Ramirez
Jow Forums is more than shooty shooty bang bang I wanna fuck Paul Harrell. It’s about what you can shooty shooty bang bang from and fuck Paul Harrell in too.
Mason Bailey
The LongEZ I have is efficient as fuck and handles like a dream.
The only downside is the inability to do a loop, because you'll overstress your canard and rip it off
Kayden Kelly
>worriedjohndenver.jpg
Jason Martin
>Hey, we want a nice, simple VLJ as a demonstrator for our new turbofan
>Say no more
LOOK AT HOW CUTE IT IS
Nolan Thomas
>SCHWING
Alexander Jenkins
>Single-engine F-5/T-38 derivative
Aww yiss
Cooper Russell
>What’s Jow Forums‘s opinion on this man?
don't know enough about him personally to have much of an opinion other than he designed some cool shit.
saw his brother talk once at Oshkosh about the Voyager circumnavigation flight, which was pretty awesome.
he basically said that his dumb bitch copilot very nearly killed them both during the one time he allowed himself to sleep on the flight, and that they only survived by chance because he woke up randomly just a few minutes before the course correction window closed for not flying them into a fucking mountain.
Austin Baker
More like the Gaston Glock
>Simple yet effective designs based on known concepts
>Made out of plastic
>Unique for their time
Cooper Powell
Just make the canard stronger
Justin Reyes
Yeah, but unlike Glock, Rutan put out more than one design.
Robert Barnes
Liam Williams
Honestly, with the way that things held on i should. theres a single 3/8th pin on the front and 2 bolts through the inst panel
Jonathan Hernandez
While you're at it, could you give the leading edge of the canard a sweep and stick carbon fiber endplates on? I've seen vortices form on the canards of higher-end LongEZes and Berkuts that make me a little nervous with how they screw up flow over the meatiest part of the wing...
Jason Harris
>building a bunch of planes backwards
What does that even mean
Kayden Murphy
Jow Forums, your go-to for solving CFD on a canard
Thread theme: youtu.be
I shouldn’t be surprised.
Brandon Clark
The canard design he pioneered has the tail and elevators on the front, and the wing/ailerons on the back, and the vertical stabilizers at the wing tips.
Brandon Garcia
Has anyone ever tried an annular wing canard?
Aiden Nguyen
user, the canard design is already autistic enough
Xavier Stewart
Yeah that rutan attack plane prototype definitely didn't have an auto Cannon and wasn't designed for cas
Liam Morales
How is it autistic, it functions prfectly fine when the aircraft is designed with canards in mind.
Because the wright brothers didn't design most of their planes this way before rutan was even born.
Zachary Phillips
>Of the future
Of the present
Jose Morales
I've seen annular tandem wings, but I can't recall an annular canard...would that just be a half-ellipse sticking out of the forward fuselage?
Adrian Lee
>Berkut 540
Wouldn't they have to put space hind tier exposed ball turrets in the wingtips to make its defencive fire 360?
Jayden Rogers
Just put a ball in the tail with 4 Brownings and that's near-180° port-starboard coverage-a little impaired aiming up, but down would be easy
Keep the dorsal and belly balls, and you only lose the side gunners (which were never that useful)...
Zachary Nguyen
jetguys.co
youtube.com
This airframe is amazingly flexible...there's no way some Narcos haven't put a belt-fed MG up in the nose for ghetto COIN
Alexander James
youtube.com
>Not sure if I prefer Hornet-style under-wing intakes or Thunderchief-esque wing root openings...
Nolan Bennett
youtube.com
Some even have under-wing luggage pods!
>how much cocaine do y'all figure he could carry?
Alexander Hernandez
Your mom on chad’s phallus
Jaxson Davis
Legend.
We should have him design our fighter aircraft.
David Gonzalez
I've never seen a plane look so... BRITTLE.
Evan Nelson
He did some work troubleshooting the Phantom
>Pic surprisingly unrelated
Camden Gutierrez
The Proteus is built for high altitude, and long range. Probably not supposed to be pulling a lot of G's in it desu
Josiah Powell
Was Burt a time traveling nazi aircraft designer?
Adrian Lewis
everything is possible if you follow your autism
Jordan King
Tacit Blue. Yeah, I see it.