wrote:

The planes I listed were some, but not all, of Rutan's failures, times
the he did not "hit a target."

How laughable. You are not qualified to characterize Burt Rutan's
projects as successes or failures. Burt does not consider most of the
projects on your silly "failure" list to be failures at all. Burt is
a giant in aviation. You are nothing. Don't pretend otherwise by
presuming to cast judgement on his accomplishments.

As Theodore Roosevelt correctly noted,

"It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the
strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them
better.

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face
is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs
and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the
great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause.

Who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement;
and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring
greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid
souls who know neither victory nor defeat."