[Tallguy]

Rutan probably will get shunted aside. That’s the way big corporations work. Buy a startup company with a good idea & the entrepreneur gets it in the neck. Either that or Rutan will wake-up one day and realize that he doesn’t like working for a major corporation.

[saganite]

I know Rutan doesn’t like working for anyone else. I’m guessing he sold the company because he plans to move on. He never really works well with others and he must have something else in mind that he wants to do.

[AFreeBird]

Rutan probably will get shunted aside. That’s the way big corporations work. Buy a startup company with a good idea & the entrepreneur gets it in the neck. Either that or Rutan will wake-up one day and realize that he doesn’t like working for a major corporation.

Gee I don't know about that, not in this case. If it were some startup by who knows who; then yea, I could see that.

But Burt is a proven designer who has repeatedly shown he can think outside the box, and build some astonishing aerospace craft.

There used to be a guy by the name of Northrop, that thought that way.

[RightWhale]

Rutan will wake-up one day and realize that he doesn’t like working for a major corporation.

He's due for retirement. Maybe a book deal.