A decorated Vietnam War pilot, Dick Rutan died Friday evening at a hospital in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, with Burt and other loved ones by his side. He was 85. His friend Bill Whittle said he died of ...

When I started at Channel 13, 58 years ago, I began a journey with my eventual co-anchor Dick Burt. His daughter Margaret, one of his five children, remembers the fun times. "They would get each ...

“Somebody said when Dick was born, he didn’t have a birth certificate — he had a flight plan,” Burt Rutan said. Credit...Mark Greenberg/Redux The plane they built in a hangar in the desert ...

Dick Rutan, right, and Jeana Yeager pose for a photo Dec. 19, 1985. Rutan, who along with co-pilot Yeager completed one of the greatest milestones in aviation history: the first round-the-world ...