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Article: One Huge Accomplishment
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- Plane and Pilot
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- August 1, 2005
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A dam Aircraft received the final type certificate forthe pressurized, twin-engine A500. Less than one year after founders Rick Adam and John Knudsen gave Burt Rutan$1 million and a back-of-the-napkin design for an all-composite, centerline-thrust twin, a proof-of-concept A500 was flying over Mojave, Calif. In 2002, flight testing began out of Denver's Centennial Airport. Production of the A500 will continue in Colorado and, now, in Ogden, Utah, to meet the company's goal of producing six aircraft a month. Adam estimated that its design team has spent more than 1.5 million man-hours since certification operations began in 1998.
Final performance numbers for the A500 include a ...