In article ,
Ed Rasimus wrote:

Remember that there are TWO Rutans--Dick is the designer and Burt the
guinea pig in the cockpit usually.

Ed, it's the other way around. Burt is the designer in the family,
Dick is the test pilot and used-to-be Phantom driver. Dick flew the
Voyager around the world with Jeana Yeager, Burt designed and built
it.

The innovation and creativeness
that gave us the Varieze, Voyager and a raft of other creations came
from Dick. Dick's the one that usually shows up at River Rats reunions
as well--seems to have a bit of Phantom in his background.....

He also flew 325 missions in Vietnam, IIRC flying mostly F-100.