Wirt Atmar <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> The program's developer, the aircraft designer Burt Rutan, displayed a rocket
> plane called SpaceShipOne and a jet to carry it, the White Knight, in a
> hangar at Mojave Airport. Mr. Rutan is best known for creating Voyager, the
> airplane that made the first nonstop, unrefueled flight around the world, in
> 1986.

Here's an HP connection:  Voyager carried an HP-71 calculator on that round-the-world flight.  See:

http://www.google.com/groups?selm=279d5175:1544.4comp.sys.handhelds%3B1%40hpcvbbs.UUCP

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