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title: "2 Aircraft Quotes By Burt Rutan"
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> [Within 25 years, virtual reality meetings will be essentially transparent to being there in person. Once we can do this, the idea of climbing into an aircraft, and burning up huge quantities of fossil fuels to propel our bodies and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/burt-rutan/within-25-years-virtual-reality-meetings-will-be-essentially/)

[Burt Rutan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/burt-rutan/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d4e/burt-rutan-12448_aircraft_within-25-years-virtual-reality-meetings_557647.jpg)

> [At various times over 20 years, I did preliminary designs for aircraft like the Stratolaunch. For that whole time I was encouraging us to do something that almost everyone else felt you could not do.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/burt-rutan/at-various-times-over-20-years-i-did-preliminary-designs-for-aircraft/)

[Burt Rutan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/burt-rutan/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dae/burt-rutan-12448_aircraft_at-various-times-over-20-years-i-did-pre_2198641.jpg)

## Other authors on Aircraft

## More by Burt Rutan

> [I like to call the difference between research and development. Some people use that interchangeably. They'll say R&D. They're two totally different things.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/burt-rutan/i-like-to-call-the-difference-between-research-and-development-some/)

[Burt Rutan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/burt-rutan/)

> [America was good enough to make a small compact lighter weight nuclear weapon. The Russians still had these big clunky heavy ones, so they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/burt-rutan/america-was-good-enough-to-make-a-small-compact-lighter-weight/)

[Burt Rutan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/burt-rutan/)

> [A true creator researches how to have confidence in nonsense.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/burt-rutan/a-true-creator-researches-how-to-have-confidence-in-nonsense/)

[Burt Rutan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/burt-rutan/)

> [I spent about seven years during the Vietnam War flight-testing airplanes for the Air Force. And then I went in and I had a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/burt-rutan/i-spent-about-seven-years-during-the-vietnam-war-flight-testing/)

[Burt Rutan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/burt-rutan/)

> [Flight out of the atmosphere is a simple thing to do and should have been available to the public twenty years ago. Ten years…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/burt-rutan/flight-out-of-the-atmosphere-is-a-simple-thing-to-do-and-should-have/)

[Burt Rutan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/burt-rutan/)

> [We didn't know the importance of home computers before the Internet. We had them mostly for fun, then the Internet came along and was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/burt-rutan/we-didn-t-know-the-importance-of-home-computers-before-the-internet/)

[Burt Rutan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/burt-rutan/)

> [Virgin Galactic, which will be operating SpaceShipTwo, will be only one of several spacelines. The competitors for Virgin include the Russians, Bezos's Blue Origin,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/burt-rutan/virgin-galactic-which-will-be-operating-spaceshiptwo-will-be-only-one/)

[Burt Rutan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/burt-rutan/)

> [Within 25 years, virtual reality meetings will be essentially transparent to being there in person. Once we can do this, the idea of climbing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/burt-rutan/within-25-years-virtual-reality-meetings-will-be-essentially/)

[Burt Rutan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/burt-rutan/)

> [Everything looks nonsensical before it works.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/burt-rutan/everything-looks-nonsensical-before-it-works/)

[Burt Rutan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/burt-rutan/)

> [A NASA-funded study estimates that if the price of a ticket to space approached $100,000, close to a million people would buy one. That's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/burt-rutan/a-nasa-funded-study-estimates-that-if-the-price-of-a-ticket-to-space/)

[Burt Rutan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/burt-rutan/)

> [Achieving something that has never existed in manned spaceflight and that is high volume and public access.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/burt-rutan/achieving-something-that-has-never-existed-in-manned-spaceflight-and/)

[Burt Rutan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/burt-rutan/)

> [There will be a new industry, and we are just now in the beginning. I will predict that in twelve or fifteen years there…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/burt-rutan/there-will-be-a-new-industry-and-we-are-just-now-in-the-beginning-i/)

[Burt Rutan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/burt-rutan/)

> [Our goal is to show that you can develop a robust, safe manned space program and do it at an extremely low cost](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/burt-rutan/our-goal-is-to-show-that-you-can-develop-a-robust-safe-manned-space/)

[Burt Rutan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/burt-rutan/)

> [Usually the wacky people have the breakthroughs. The 'smart' people don't.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/burt-rutan/usually-the-wacky-people-have-the-breakthroughs-the-smart-people-don-t/)

[Burt Rutan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/burt-rutan/)

> [In the coming era of manned space exploration by the private sector, market forces will spur development and yield new, low-cost space technologies. If…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/burt-rutan/in-the-coming-era-of-manned-space-exploration-by-the-private-sector/)

[Burt Rutan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/burt-rutan/)

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