On Thursday, they honored Burt Rutan, a designer of funny looking airplanes. The one in the video below is called the "Boomerang." It's a light twin engine plane that gets way better gas mileage than the similar sized commercial twins. This one has two fuselages, one of which holds people. It's asymmetric, but it flies very nicely.
This next funny looking plane, called a "Starship" even though it can't fly outside the atmosphere, also gets better gas mileage than similar sized twin piston engine business aircraft.
