Rutan then returned to Morbid Angel to record Gateways to Annihilation, released in 2000.

Scaled Composites ( often abbreviated as Scaled ) is an aerospace company founded by Burt Rutan and currently owned by Northrop Grumman that is located at the Mojave Spaceport, Mojave, California, United States.

Born in 1943 in Estacada, Oregon, 30 miles southeast of Portland, and raised in Dinuba, California, Rutan displayed an early interest in aircraft design.

Yeager first met Dick Rutan and his brother Burt, at an air show in Chino, California in 1980.

* October 12 – Singer John Denver dies when the Rutan Long-EZ he is piloting crashes into the Pacific Ocean off Pacific Grove, California.

Rutan Long EZ: Rutan Long-EZ Serial Number: 442 Registration: N82ST Markings: John R. Stitt, San Diego, California, 1983.

On October 12, 1997, at about 5: 28 pm, a Rutan Long-EZ ( tail number N555JD ) being flown by John Denver crashed into Monterey Bay near Pacific Grove, California.

* 12 October 1997 – Singer John Denver died when his newly-bought Rutan Long-EZ home-built aircraft crashed into the Pacific Ocean off Pacific Grove, California.

Elbert Leander " Burt " Rutan ( born June 17, 1943 ) is an American aerospace engineer noted for his originality in designing light, strong, unusual-looking, energy-efficient aircraft.

In June 2008, Shane was appointed president of Scaled Composites, taking over this role from previous president and company founder Burt Rutan.

In The Space Review on June 21, 2004 ( the day of Tier One's first spaceflight ), Rutan was quoted as stating " The spaceship is model number 316 and the White Knight is model number 318.

At the time, Burt and Dick ran their own aircraft company, Rutan Aircraft Factory ( now Scaled Composites ).

* Scaled Composites ( often abbreviated as Scaled ), formerly the Rutan Aircraft Factory

** Dick Rutan, Voyager Aircraft, Inc.

It is also used in the Burt Rutan rocket spacecraft.

In the episode The Poison Sky, it is revealed that the Sontaran Empire have been at war with the Rutan Host for more than 50, 000 years, and which, at a time around 2008, they are losing.

It is suggested that their war with the Rutan Host is going badly at this point, hence the need for reinforcements.

It is revealed that Jacob is from Sontar, and was responsible for genetically creating the Sontarans as a defense against a Rutan invasion.

They were first developed on Sontar's gravity-heavy moon and quickly proved themselves to be at least on par with the unstoppable Rutan horde.

Shakedown marks the only occasion in which the Sontarans and their Rutan foes appear on screen together, and was adapted into a Virgin New Adventures novel.

In The Infinity Doctors, the Doctor negotiated a peace between the Sontarans and the Rutan Host when two of them were left trapped in a TARDIS for several hours and got to talking due to their inability to kill each other.

They appear in 2009, in the novella The Sontaran Games by Jacqueline Rayner, featuring the Tenth Doctor and appeared in the New Series Adventures ( Doctor Who ) book The Taking of Chelsea 426 by David Llewellyn, featuring the Tenth Doctor, fighting both times against the Rutan Host.

* 2004 – The Burt Rutan Ansari X Prize entry SpaceShipOne performs a successful spaceflight, the first of two required to win the prize.

* December 14 – Rutan Voyager, an experimental aircraft designed by Burt Rutan and piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, begins its flight around the world.

* Tufa Rutan, prince of the Southern Liang ( b. 365 )

* Tufa Rutan, prince of the Xianbei state Southern Liang ( d. 415 )

Of special interest is Rutan Hill, a 440-million-year-old patch of igneous rock known as nepheline syenite.

On 25 September 2004, Branson announced the signing of a deal under which a new space tourism company, Virgin Galactic, will license the technology behind Spaceship One — funded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and designed by legendary American aeronautical engineer and visionary Burt Rutan — to take paying passengers into suborbital space.

Notable occurrences at Edwards include Chuck Yeager's flight that broke the sound barrier in the Bell X-1, test flights of the North American X-15, the first landings of the Space Shuttle, and the 1986 around-the-world flight of the Rutan Voyager.

Assisted by the Boston architectural firm of Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge, her project was one of the first in historic preservation in western Massachusetts.

Stokes has also painted numerous works for Burt Rutan.

In 1987 Burt Rutan's Rutan Voyager, the first aircraft to fly around the world without refueling, made its final appearance before its record setting flight.

In 1986 Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager flew an aircraft, the Rutan Voyager, around the world unrefuelled, and without landing.

In 1988, Beech's parent company, Raytheon, sold Scaled back to Rutan, who then sold it to Wyman-Gordon.

After Wyman-Gordon was acquired by Precision Castparts Corp., Rutan and ten investors re-acquired the company as Scaled Composites, LLC.

When Harold Arlen returned to California in the winter of 1944, it was to take up again a collaboration with Johnny Mercer, begun some years before.

Hearst saw his wife and child, sent a joyful message to his mother in California, and soon returned to Washington, where on April 22, for the first time, he opened his mouth in Congress.

The Richard Beesemyers, formerly of Connecticut, have returned to Southern California and are now residing on South Arden Blvd..

Back in the United States, Lynch returned to Virginia, but since his parents had moved to Walnut Creek, California, he was forced to stay with his friend Tony Keeler for a while, before he decided to move to the city of Philadelphia, where, at the advice of Jack Fisk, who was already attending it, he decided to enroll at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, something he preferred far more than his previous art college in Boston, claiming that " In Philadelphia there were great and serious painters, and everybody was inspiring one another and it was a beautiful time there.

Eisenhower returned to the U. S. in 1939 and held a series of staff positions in Washington, D. C., California and Texas.

In 1915 Sapir returned to California, where his expertise on the Yana language made him urgently needed.

Whale returned to California in November 1952 and advised David Lewis that he planned to bring Foegel over early the following year.

After a short season, Robinson returned to California in December 1941 to pursue a career as running back for the Los Angeles Bulldogs of the Pacific Coast Football League.

Mullis returned to science at the encouragement of friend Thomas White, who later got Mullis a job with the biotechnology company Cetus Corporation of Emeryville, California.

He returned to the United States in 1975 and went into seclusion in the California desert.

Upon leaving the White House, the couple returned to California, where they purchased a home in the wealthy East Gate Old Bel Air neighborhood of Bel Air, Los Angeles, dividing their time between Bel Air and the Reagan Ranch in Santa Barbara, California ; Ronald and Nancy regularly attended Bel Air Presbyterian Church as well.

She returned to the library in California for a sunset memorial service and interment, where, overcome with emotion, she lost her composure, crying in public for the first time during the week.

Mihdhar returned to Yemen, which angered Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who did not want Hazmi to be left alone in California.

In 1950 Desmond left for New York City playing alto and clarinet for Jack Fina, but returned to California after hearing Brubeck's trio on the radio.

She returned to North Dakota for a tonsillectomy, and was noticed by hotel owner Frank Beringin while working at the Doll House in Palm Springs, California.

In 1984, Limbaugh returned to radio as a talk show host at KFBK in Sacramento, California, where he replaced Morton Downey, Jr.

Columbia was successfully launched on April 12, 1981, the 20th anniversary of the first human spaceflight ( Vostok 1 ), and returned on April 14, 1981, after orbiting the Earth 36 times, landing on the dry lakebed runway at Edwards Air Force Base in California.

Judah returned to California in 1860.

In October 1956, he entered test pilot school at Edwards Air Force Base, California and returned to Wright-Patterson in May 1957 as a test pilot assigned to the fighter branch.

Tork returned to Southern California in the mid-1970s, where he married and had a son and took a job teaching at Pacific Hills School in Santa Monica for a year and a half.

However, she became ill and returned home, finishing her master's degree in literature at the University of California in 1902.

The following evening, after concluding the first set at Butterfield's Nightclub in Menlo Park, California, with his rousing interpretation of " Eleanor Rigby ," Guaraldi and drummer Jim Zimmerman returned to the room they were staying in that weekend at the adjacent Red Cottage Inn, to relax before the next set.

When Enos returned at the start of the fifth season the pair both served as deputies and shared the same patrol car for five episodes before Cletus disappeared ( his last appearance being in the episode " Big Daddy "), said to have gone on vacation, never to return ( until 1997's Reunion movie after Enos ' apparent return to California after the series ).

Shafter returned to command the Department of California where he oversaw the supplying of the expedition to the Philippines under Major General Wesley Merritt.