BeechTalk - BT

Username Protected · **Posted:** 09 Jul 2010, 09:43

Kent,

To be clear you flew a standard velocity, not the turbine shown, correct?

Username Protected · **Posted:** 09 Jul 2010, 10:10

Username Protected wrote:

WOW! That is one sweet flying machine! You can hold the stick all the way back and it just bobs like a porpoise (if you add power, you climb while bobbing, if you reduce power, you descend while bobbing). I guess the only way to stall it, is to take a dive and then pull back very quickly.

Also if out of CG to the rear, canard aircraft have been known to go into unrecoverable deep stalls when the main wing stalls.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 09 Jul 2010, 10:17

Username Protected wrote:

WOW! That is one sweet flying machine! You can hold the stick all the way back and it just bobs like a porpoise (if you add power, you climb while bobbing, if you reduce power, you descend while bobbing). I guess the only way to stall it, is to take a dive and then pull back very quickly.

Also if out of CG to the rear, canard aircraft have been known to go into unrecoverable deep stalls when the main wing stalls.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 09 Jul 2010, 10:17

Username Protected wrote:

Also if out of CG to the rear, canard aircraft have been known to go into unrecoverable deep stalls when the main wing stalls.

So have standard aircraft.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 09 Jul 2010, 19:02

Username Protected wrote:

Kent,

To be clear you flew a standard velocity, not the turbine shown, correct?

Sheldon,

You are correct, but I did talk with the guys who are building the turbine version. Exciting stuff.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 10 Jul 2010, 09:15

Thanks for posting this Sheldon. I've been following this for a couple of years now. @ the 2009 SNF I asked the Velocity guys about the status of things, they didn't have much to offer. I'm afraid it is yet another casualty of this inconvenient economy we've found ourselves in.

I love the concept of this plane though. It's kind of like a baby single engine Piaggio.

I agree with Todd though, if it is offered in Kit form only, the market will be extremely limited. Hope they can bring this to market as a certified aircraft. :cheers:

Then again, I'm also holding out for the Cirrus Jet :doh:

Username Protected · **Posted:** 10 Jul 2010, 10:31

Username Protected wrote:

Then again, I'm also holding out for the Cirrus Jet :doh:

Of course, it's a V-Tail! My dream would be to have a beautiful house at Poplar Grove, a large hangar with a white floor and my Baby Doll and a Cirrus Vision painted like the HondaJet, parked at angles, nose to nose.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 10 Jul 2010, 12:49

Username Protected wrote:

Then again, I'm also holding out for the Cirrus Jet :doh:

Of course, it's a V-Tail! My dream would be to have a beautiful house at Poplar Grove, a large hangar with a white floor and my Baby Doll and a Cirrus Vision painted like the HondaJet, parked at angles, nose to nose.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 12 Jul 2010, 00:04

Are you guessing as to the availability/price of the Velocity Turbo Sheldon or do you have some confirmed information?

Username Protected · **Posted:** 12 Jul 2010, 00:21

The other day I saw a Long-Eze with a jet engine at KSUX. The owner-builder was just getting ready to do some high-speed taxi tests. The engine came of a helicopter (Sea King ?) with the gearbox removed and a metal outlet cone welded to it. Looked like a wild ride in the making.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 12 Jul 2010, 09:27

Username Protected wrote:

Are you guessing as to the availability/price of the Velocity Turbo Sheldon or do you have some confirmed information?

Only a WAG!

Username Protected · **Posted:** 13 Jul 2010, 18:11

I emailed Duane Swing at Velocity the other day he told me the Velocity Turbo has been shelved for now due to the economy. Hopefully things change in the futures such a nice looking airplane should be in the air.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 14 Jul 2010, 01:53

Username Protected wrote:

I emailed Duane Swing at Velocity the other day he told me the Velocity Turbo has been shelved for now due to the economy. Hopefully things change in the futures such a nice looking airplane should be in the air.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 14 Jul 2010, 02:12

Username Protected wrote:

I emailed Duane Swing at Velocity the other day he told me the Velocity Turbo has been shelved for now due to the economy. Hopefully things change in the futures such a nice looking airplane should be in the air.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 14 Jul 2010, 02:29

Username Protected wrote:

You don't sleep much either I guess

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No, like you I spend many hours pondering things such as......

"Is it ethical to yell MOVIE in a crowded Fire House"?

"Is a bear Catholic"?

"Does the Pope crap in the woods"?

These questions and many others often riddle my mind :bugeye:

New Velocity Turbine Under development