"Fun At Mojave" At Theater In The Woods

Aircraft design pioneer Burt Rutan will present a very special evening program at Theater in the Woods entitled "Fun at Mojave," on Thursday, July 29, during EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2004. The presentation will most likely include the latest information regarding two major projects - White Knight/SpaceShipOne and GlobalFlyer - in progress at Rutan's aircraft design company, Scaled Composites, located at Mojave Airport (CA).

White Knight/SpaceShipOne aims to become the first private aircraft to achieve feasible, repeatable suborbital space flight in the X Prize competition. With the GlobalFlyer, world aviation record holder Steve Fossett plans to become the first person to achieve a solo, nonstop circumnavigation without refueling, replicating the journey of Rutan's Voyager in 1986. Time of the presentation will be announced as we draw nearer to EAA AirVenture.

Burt Rutan has also confirmed presentation of several forums on AirVenture Oshkosh Friday and Saturday in the Honda Motorcycles Pavilion (#7), including:

Friday

• 8:30 a.m. - Life After Airliners, with Dr. Bruce Holmes
• 11:30 a.m. - Private Manned Space Program, SpaceShipOne
• 2:30 p.m. - The Rutan Brothers Chat, with Dick and Burt Rutan

  

Saturday

• 10 a.m. - Private Manned Space Program, SpaceShipOne
• 2:30 p.m. - A "Tent-Talk Show" with John Roncz, noted aerodynamicist

FMI: www.airventure.org