REFLECTOR:Forced Landing

[Scott Derrick]

Sam,

Glad your all right and the plane is fixable.

My experience with a Velocity mishap reinforces your assessment.  Its a 
sturdy plane and if your have to off road in a GA plane, I'll pick my 
Velocity any day.

Scott

AnnSam wrote:
> To all Velocity owners and builders,
> 	In case you didn’t already know this I want to attest to the fact that the
> Velocity is a great plane and the people at the Velocity factory are even
> greater.
> 	On July 1st I flew my Velocity to Sebastian to pick up some parts. On the
> way home the engine seized at about 1,500 feet and I was forced to land in a
> rough and I do mean rough field. I thought it was going to be just a routine
> off field landing with a probable broken nose gear. When I was about 20ft
> off the ground I saw the 2ft. wide by about 2ft.deep drainage ditches
> running across the whole field at about 75ft. apart. They could not be seen
> from the air, as they were overgrown with vegetation. At that point I had no
> choice, I had to land straight ahead. Had it been a spam can we would have
> sustained a lot more serious injury. Although the nose of the aircraft looks
> pretty bad it can be repaired.
>  	I didn’t know what I was going to do to get the broken aircraft out of the
> cow pasture in the middle of nowhere.  While, I was at the Emergency room
> waiting on my friend I called the Velocity factory and told Dwayne of my
> problem. He got a crew together picked up the broken aircraft placed it on a
> trailer and took it back to the factory.
> 	I will be forever grateful to the Velocity crew and especially to Dwayne
> Swing. The Velocity was a good strong design when Danny Maher designed it
> and it’s even better now with the continuous factory improvements and mods.
> 	Velocity Standard Uni door  Flying over 800hrs. fixed gear 180HP Lyc.
> 											Sam DaSilva
> 
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