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    Rocket Racing

    in Velocity

    Posted

    I believe that the picture you show of 246RR is either photoshopped or just has the prop removed and a nozzle placed temporarily for the photoshoot.

     

    N216MR is the Velocity that flew with the XCOR motor at OSH this year, and is the only RR racing aircraft flying with a rocket at this time. There's a picture of it flying on page 39 of this month's Sport Aviation.

     

    N246RR is the prop driven aircraft they use for training.

    That's not correct Mark, the Amaradillo powered racer, N205MB flew the last week of August and is now the preferred engine:

    '"This will now be the primary engine for the next rocket racers," said Granger Whitelaw, CEO and co-founder of the RRL. The league is building five rockets so that it will have six by next spring.'

     

    Armadillo Flys

    http://news.cnet.com/8301-11386_3-10027365-76.html.

     

    http://wiki.velocityxl.com/index.php?title=Rocket_Racer_N216MR XCor

    http://wiki.velocityxl.com/index.php?title=Rocket_Racer_N205MB Armadillo

    Rough River 2008

    in Events, Fly-ins, and Trip Reports

    Posted

    I found the news article:

    http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008809280516

    That was some flying there at the end! Way to go Elizabeth :thumbsup:

    Even found a good parking place.

    Well, there isn't any scheduled service to Otisco, and we were thinking of setting something up...

     

    Can you believe they didn't have valet?

     

    Just goes to show you that a Velocity can merge with traffic, everyone just has to agree that fast, pointy aircraft invariably get the right-of-way.

     

    Seriously, we know folks have questions, and we have answers, so stay tuned.

     

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    Sad News I found this am

    in Coffee House

    Posted

    does seem strange that an experienced pilot would not aim for a street instead of a house.

    Mack was trying to avoid the houses, declared so on the radio, we're not sure why he hit the house, but I'm confident he was doing what he could given the situation.

    Sad News I found this am

    in Coffee House

    Posted

    I would like to know why was the aircraft was flown from three airports in only 5 hours of flight. it may be that they had switched the phase one airport of operation during the 5 hours but I doubt it. I have seen the FAA give phase one restrictions to some Lancair owners that did not include there route of flight to the test area and allowed them to land at other airports. this type of test operation can only end up bad.

     

    I do not want to see the FAA telling us which airport we can use our experimental aircraft. one way to prevent this is to use some common sense and as the pilot of a low time aircraft not operate in high risk areas as N Las Vegas. Why would you want to take off and fly over houses at 300 feet in an experimental with only 5 hours? seems the pilot did not act responsibly in this case and never gave any consideration to the what if of operating a new plane.

    The Cincinnati FSDO regularly gives this kind of op limit without ill effect, mine is in fact. We have lots of clear flat land here, and my limits were 75 nm, stay in Ohio, out of Cincinnati, Dayton, and Columbus' airspace, but I could go to any airport not limited by the preceding.

     

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    N500K crash

    in Coffee House

    Posted

    Reading the prelim on this raises the hair on the back of my neck.

     

    According to an eyewitness located at the bottom of the 100 foot deep rock quarry, he could hear the engine of the airplane when it flew at high speed through the quarry at approximately 20 to 30 feet above the floor before it collided with the wall of the quarry and exploded.

     

    A second witness reported that the airplane flew directly at his large bulldozer on the far side of the one mile wide quarry. The witness estimated the airplane was at 30 feet above the floor of the quarry when he waved at the airplane as it flew past him. The pilot then banked to the right away from his bulldozer and nosed up to miss a large dirt pile, but then collided with the quarry wall about 20 feet from the floor of the quarry.

    http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?ev_id=20080804X01148&key=1

    Talk me out of a velocity...

    in Velocity

    Posted

    I'd be interested in hearing what you find as well, I've not taxied a Cozy, but our XL taxis pretty well if you keep up a bit of speed, at very low speeds she wallows and misses stays, as they say. You don't have to hot rod it, just a brisk walking pace, and an occasional stab on take-off roll.

     

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    Velocity SE storage

    in Velocity

    Posted

    Just a couple of adds here to what others have said.

     

    Strake baggage - you really can make this as big or small as you want, in hind sight, I'd probably have made mine a bit smaller.

     

    Other behind-seat storage - also depends on RG or FG, my XL/FG has a very natural storage shelf over the sump, in addition to the behind-seat space. See picture below. Retracts have less usable space back here.

     

    Draggage - There is at least one Velocity with Draggage - http://wiki.velocityxl.com/index.php?title=Draggage_Pod.

     

    Brett

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    Is the RV-10 better than the Cozy?

    in All Others

    Posted

    Something I have not yet seen mentioned is surviveability of an off field landing. I think the RV10 will win that one hands down. The high landing speed and the small wheels with high center of gravity (due to pusher prop clearance) tends to mean that you would be very lucky indeed to have an damage free landing on anything other than a long stretch of asphalt. I know that a lot of people have walked away from off field landings but in virtually every case the airplane was destroyed.

     

    I'm still sitting on the fence as you can see....

    I'm not sure this is supportable, though I can see why it may seem this way.

     

    I know several folks who've landed Velocity XL airplanes off-field with no damage at all, and some with very minimal damage, and they are typically much heavier than Cozys. Now, our wheels are bigger, but we're heavier, taller, and fast. I've collected as many pictures as I could to show how survivable they are on my website http://n44vf.velocityxl.com/building/Accidents.php

     

    Brett

    aerobatics?

    in Coffee House

    Posted

    If able, get someone to show you how to do this: I can show you in two minutes, and have you successfully do it.

     

    First, make sure you have plenty of altitude (8-10,000 agl, YES that high), because the first time you try this your going to fall out of the top and scare the living bejibers out of yourself as your pointing toward the ground and quickly building up speed.

     

    Waiter

    :ROTFLMAO:Thanks Waiter, a Velo friend of mine described trying a loop in exactly these terms... it worked out, so it's quite funny... now... it took a few weeks to get to funny, though. Be careful out there, folks.

     

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