HISTORY

• The Rutan Model 61 Long-EZ, designed by Rutan Aircraft Factory.  Burt Rutan’s company produced the Long-EZ for home construction. It was a tandem, two-seat canard designed aircraft with a pusher propulsion, employing Lycoming piston engines with pusher propeller. The Long-EZ was designed for fuel efficiency.
• The Long-EZ was a successor development of its predecessor, the VariEze. In 1980-85 plans for the Long-EZ were marketed and resulted in over 700 sales since 1980 to 2021. Well over 800 are registered with the FAA. It first flew in 1979.
• The Long-EZ gained fame from its around-the-world flight by Dick Rutan and Mike Melville in 1997 when they flew together with 2 Long-EZs they had built.

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