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Visionaire VA-10 Vantage

The Vantage light jet is from the brain of Burt Rutan’s Scaled Composites. The aircraft has engine intakes on top of the fuselage and wings with a negative sweepback, but an standard tail and only one engine.

The Vantage did not pass the proof-of-concept phase, although the design was purchased by Evation, who was to use it as the basis for the twin-engined EV-20 Vantage Jet design. This ended up in nothing. Later VisionAire Jets was established to resurrect the design but this has failed so far. 

Confusion possible with

Scaled Composites V-Jet II

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As this aircraft was also designed by Scaled Composites, before the Vantage, it has com­mo­nalities with that aircraft. This includes the air intakes on top of the fuselage and the foreward swept wings. The V-Jet has two engines though and a butterfly tail.