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The Rutan Quickie or Quickie sometimes Q or Q1 is a light single-seat homebuilt aircraft that was mainly designed by Burt Rutan to a requirement for a low-powered but highly efficient aircraft. The original Quickie (Model 54 in Rutan’s design series) is one of the dozens of unconventional aircraft penned by Rutan for the general aviation market.The Quickie is a tandem wing design having one forward wing and one rear wing (instead of the more usual main wing and horizontal stabilizer).