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Voyager Photo Gallery Contact Sheet Voyager Photo Gallery Contact Sheet
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Photo Date: 23 May 2000
Formats: Low Resolution Image Contact Sheet (17 KBytes)
Medium Resolution Image Contact Sheet (17 KBytes)
High Resolution Image Contact Sheet (17 KBytes)
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Description:		 These are the image contact sheets for each image resolution of the NASA Dryden Voyager Photo Gallery.
Project
Description:		 The Voyager aircraft landed at Edwards Air Force Base, Edwards, California, to complete it's record breaking, nonstop unfueled flight around the world. The Voyager landed at Edwards at 8:06 a.m. PST Dec. 23, 1987, after a nine-day flight. The 9 day, 3 minute, 44 sec. flight nearly doubled the previous distance record set in 1962 by a USAF/Boeing B-52H.

Richard Rutan and Jeana Yeager piloted the aircraft from a cramped cockpit. Voyager's takeoff weight was more than 10 times the structural weight, but its drag was lower than almost any other powered aircraft. Voyager's wintips sustained minor damage during its takeoff roll because of the massive amount of fuel it was carrying. Approximately 2.5 ft. of graphite skin was missing from the left wing's foam core.

The aircraft's design and light-weight structural materials allowed it to carry an unprecedented amount of fuel on its 25,000 mile flight; nearly 7,000 lbs. Voyager took off from Edwards Dec. 14 and traveled at an average speed of 115.8 mph.

Voyager, designed by Burt Rutan, Richard Rutan's brother and president of Scaled Composites, was built almost entirely of graphite composites.
Keywords: Voyager; world record; around the world; Richard Rutan; Jeana Yeager; Scaled Composites; Burt Rutan; graphite composites

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