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I wanted to make a new thread asking TFPers to list their greatest heroes and why. So I did a seach in good TFP practice and found this great tribute to Bruce Lee:

So now I am hoping to revive these feelings by asking:

Who is your Greatest American Hero and why?

Doesn't have to be an American; include a picture if you have one. I'll go first:

My greatest American Hero is Burt Rutan.
(Please note that this posts includes links to Wikipedia)

In my opinion he is one of the greatest aeronautical engineers ever and also a great entreprenuer.
He will go down in history as one of the main contributors to the opening of outer space for private exploration/exploitation.

He is now working on what I think could be his greatest accomplishment:

SpaceShipTwo and his joint venture with Sir Richard Branson that may begin a historic lowering
of the barriers to space for all of us ordinary human beings.



Burt Rutan is an American aerospace engineer noted for his originality in designing light, strong, unusual-looking, energy-efficient aircraft.
He is most famous for his design of the record-breaking Voyager, which was the first plane to fly around the world without stopping or refueling,
and the sub-orbital spaceplane SpaceShipOne, which won the Ansari X-Prize in 2004 for becoming the first privately funded spacecraft to enter
the realm of space twice within a two week period.

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