Born with a Flight Plan: Dick Rutan guest of honor at Biplane Expo

There he was flying high over Vietnam, riding a burning F-100 streaking toward the Gulf of Tonkin. It was then that Dick Rutan decided he had had his fill of air combat. Now, after having flown 325 successful combat missions — 105 of which he flew as "MISTY 40," a member of the high-risk classified "MISTY" operation — his plane had just been struck by enemy ground fire and now he was thinking of home.