Burt Rutan retiring soon?

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According to http://www.parabolicarc.com/2010/08/28/burt-rutan-retirement-leave-mojave/:

Rutan is putting his Mojave home on the market and plans to move to a spread in Idaho with his wife, Tonya, according to several reliable sources who would not speak for attribution.

Asked about these reports today, Rutan replied in an email: “I plan to put out a general release on the subject after I make retirement plans. Once I have decided what to do I will post it at Scaled and other sites.”
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I guess there have been several things leading up to this in recent years:
  • Completion of sale of Scaled to Northrop Grumman
  • Doug Shane taking over day-to-day running of Scaled
  • Burt's heart problems (operation was very successful but may have changed his personal priorities)
  • Burt being much more hands-off in the design of WK2 and SS2

If the report is true then he's had quite a career! Happy retirement Burt.
 
Gosh! You're keeping up-to-date really well with all things Rutan! Would you consider giving a helping hand with my STARGAZER site?
 
40 years of designing, building and successfully flying the most uncanny aircraft with no preconceived ideas and no strings attached... A life well spent!
 
Here's an interesting article about Burt doing one last design:

[quote author=http://www.tehachapinews.com/content/aero-giant-working-his-last-design/33801]
Burt Rutan, founder of Scaled Composites and a giant in the aero design world, is working on one last aircraft before he retires to Idaho.

“There will be one more Burt Rutan design before I retire in April,” he told hundreds of guests Feb. 19 at a Tehachapi High School Cyber Penguins Robotics Team fundraiser chili cookoff in the Tehachapi High School cafeteria. “I can’t tell you anything about it until it’s flying.”

[...]

Rutan said people ask him which is his favorite, and his standard answer has been “The next one.”

But he’s changed his answer, he said.

SpaceShipOne holds the No. 1 place in his heart.

[...]

He said it has been nine years since he personally designed an airplane that Scaled Composites built, and that he has learned to “kind of let go.”
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I read some other article last week which stated clearly that Burt was working on a final design which would become his own personal aircraft once completed.
 
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-rutan-retirement-20110401,0,1938565.story
 
Hey folks, I believe this topic is more suitable, as it aligns with my search for the term "Doug Shane."
Western Museum of Flight said:
Taking New Technologies Beyond the Limits with Doug Shane
Taking New Technologies Beyond the Limits. Doug Shane, Pilot, Engineer, Current Director of Aircraft Development at Anduril Industries.
Doug is going to share with us what it’s like to work in one of the most innovative and creative design and production environments including Scaled Composites, Virgin Galactic, and Anduril Industries.
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Video at YouTube:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beUZjkKTtnU

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