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...mission came about through the faith of three principals: the two pilots, Dick Rutan, 48, and Jeana Yeager, 34; and Rutan's brother Burt, 43, who designed the plane. Burt Rutan, one of the U.S.'s most innovative designers, is president of his own firm, Rutan Aircraft Factory; Dick is a gaunt and prickly pilot par excellence, much decorated for his 325 combat missions in Viet Nam, who had been chafing as a test flyer for his younger brother; Yeager, Dick's constant companion, is a shy, petite former engineering-design draftsman who holds nine world flight records after just...
Updated Rip Van Winkle. Two old train robbers, stylishly played by Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas, are let out of jail and are forced to confront the changes -- everything from light beer to gay bars -- that have occurred during the 30 years they were penned up. Partly the tale is Cocoon with cojones. The ) two old poops take an even harder line with the young people who want them to act their age than the retirees in last year's film did. Mostly, though, Tough Guys is a lot of fun, particularly when Eli Wallach, as a furious, nearsighted...
...television commercials in a kind of surrogate Battle of the Long-Distance Pitchmen. AT&T employed Actor Cliff Robertson, who had earned a reputation for scrupulous honesty by blowing the whistle on a 1977 Hollywood embezzlement scandal, for a reported salary of $2 million a year. MCI riposted with Burt Lancaster and Comic Joan Rivers. Sprint was represented for a time by Psychologist Joyce Brothers. The campaign has also extended beyond the airwaves to local shopping malls and amusement parks, where the rival long-distance suppliers have even hired acrobats and clowns to promote their cause...
...light motor. (Voyager actually has two engines, one at each end of the fuselage; the forward motor was used only for extra power on takeoff and during maneuvering.) But a small motor means a slow plane -- the average speed on last week's run was only 103 m.p.h. -- so Burt Rutan included a canard, the extra wing at the front of the fuselage that is his trademark. Reason: If a plane flies too slowly, its wings lose lift, causing it to stall and perhaps crash. But the canard is tilted more steeply than the main wing, so it loses lift...
Voyager began life in 1981 as a sketch on a napkin at the weather-beaten Mojave Inn, near the airport. The sketcher was Burt Rutan, 43, an engineer with an established reputation for building quirky-looking but aerodynamically ingenious planes. With his brother Dick and Jeana Yeager (no relation, believes Jeana, to famous Test Pilot Chuck), Rutan had decided to attempt the around-the-world flight...