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On December 23, 1986 the unique Voyager aircraft completed the first nonstop, non-refueled circumnavigation of the globe. Voyager's designer, Burt Rutan, its pilots for the nine-day historic flight, Richard "Dick" Rutan and Jeana Yeager, as well as crew chief Bruce Evans, were all to win the Collier Trophy for their accomplishment of one of aviation's last "firsts."
NASM.2000.0054
Riva, Peter
1986-1987
Peter Riva, Gift, 2000, 2000-0054, unknown
9.89 Cubic feet ((1 letter document box) (8 records center boxes) (2 shoeboxes) (1 flatbox))
National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of the records kept by project manager Peter Riva and includes legal files, general office files, audio tapes, videotapes, newspaper and magazine accounts of the flight and transcripts of the account that would become the book, Voyager by Jeana Yeager and Dick Rutan with Phil Patton, published by Knopf in 1987.
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Rutan Model 76 Voyager
Aeronautics -- Records
Endurance flights
Aeronautics -- Flights
Aeronautics -- Awards
Aeronautics
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Transcripts
Clippings
Videotapes
Audiotapes
Business records
Legal documents