{"id":188709,"date":"2024-05-05T12:25:11","date_gmt":"2024-05-05T17:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/dick-rutan-who-set-an-aviation-milestone-when-he-flew-nonstop-around-the-world-is-dead-at-85"},"modified":"2024-05-05T12:25:11","modified_gmt":"2024-05-05T17:25:11","slug":"dick-rutan-who-set-an-aviation-milestone-when-he-flew-nonstop-around-the-world-is-dead-at-85","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/dick-rutan-who-set-an-aviation-milestone-when-he-flew-nonstop-around-the-world-is-dead-at-85","title":{"rendered":"Dick Rutan, Who Set an Aviation Milestone When He Flew Nonstop Around the World, Is Dead at 85"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dick-rutan-who-set-an-aviation-milestone-when-he-flew-nonstop-around-the-world-is-dead-at-85.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>They arrived back to a hero\u2019s welcome as thousands gathered to witness the landing. Both Rutan brothers and Yeager were each awarded a Presidential Citizens Medal by President Ronald Reagan, who described how a local official in Thailand at first \u201crefused to believe some cockamamie story\u201d about a plane flying around the world on a single tank of gas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had the freedom to pursue a dream, and that\u2019s important,\u201d Dick Rutan said at the ceremony. \u201cAnd we should never forget, and those that guard our freedoms, that we should hang on to them very tenaciously and be very careful about some do-gooder that thinks that our safety is more important than our freedom. Because freedom is awful difficult to obtain, and it\u2019s even more difficult to regain it once it\u2019s lost.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Richard Glenn Rutan was born in Loma Linda, California. He joined the U.S. Air Force as a teenager and flew more than 300 combat missions during the Vietnam War.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They arrived back to a hero\u2019s welcome as thousands gathered to witness the landing. Both Rutan brothers and Yeager were each awarded a Presidential Citizens Medal by President Ronald Reagan, who described how a local official in Thailand at first \u201crefused to believe some cockamamie story\u201d about a plane flying around the world on a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}