REFLECTOR: Electric Velocity

Ron VelocityXLFG velocityxl at fastmail.fm
Fri Apr 20 09:04:35 CDT 2012


MessageThe coolest part of the orion to me was the swept canard. 

From: Al Gietzen 
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2012 5:17 PM
To: 'Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders list' 
Subject: Re: REFLECTOR: Electric Velocity

Magic!  Roughly same canard and wing span as the Velocity SE, more than 1000 lbs heavier empty weight; yet a lower wing loading than the Velocity. And a gross weight of 3800 lbs, but the wing loading in "landing configuration" magically drops to 12.9 lbs/ft-sq?  Must be a second set of wings that extend for landing.

Or; maybe I'm just missing something.

Al
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  From: reflector-bounces at tvbf.org [mailto:reflector-bounces at tvbf.org] On Behalf Of Alex
  Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2012 12:59 PM
  To: reflector at tvbf.org
  Subject: REFLECTOR: Electric Velocity


  I was just perusing my new Popular Science magazine, and noticed that they have a story on an Electric version of the Velocity  from a company called Volta Volaire.  http://www.voltavolare.com/  The website shows it to have twin tails similar to that firefly model from Korea. Not sure how far along they are, but they are making claims of 300 mile range on battery power and it will have a small gas powered genset to extend the range to something more useable. I am not even sure if Velocity is aware of the folks- never heard them mentioned, but they did take pics from Velocities site and modify them…..



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