Rutan employed the canard to prevent the main wing from stalling and large ailerons to vary the wing’s camber (thus the name VariViggen). Rutan reasoned that an airplane that wouldn’t stall ...

Rutan introduced the plans for the VariEze [pronounced “very easy”] canard aircraft in 1976; by 1985, he had sold more than 12,000 plan sets for the VariEze and its big brother the Long-EZ.

John Rutan, a lawyer who unsuccessfully ran for Franklin County prosecutor in 2024, has filed lawsuits against the officials of the county’s Republican Party and The Columbus Dispatch ...

The lifting canard configuration, such as the one used on the Rutan Long-EZ and Vari-EZ, is designed to share the aircraft's weight between the main wing and the forward canard, both producing ...

Cannibal Corpse have debuted “Condemnation Contagion,” another song from their forthcoming album Violence Unimagined, in the form of an Erik Rutan guitar playthrough video. Presumably, this is one of ...