REFLECTOR: Now we know why N399DG was for sale

Mark Magee edjonesbrady at gmail.com
Sun Dec 2 23:45:54 CST 2012


I think you are thinking of a Long EZ. The military has eyed the Long EZ for many military applications: Drones, Strike and even Forward Observation.

Mark B. Magee
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On Dec 2, 2012, at 11:05 PM, Rich Ervin <rich_ervin at hotmail.com> wrote:

> I once saw a Navy built Velocity (huge!) built from a number of spare military parts - in fact, it was for sale back in 2001! Now I was told that was strictly authorized project - a testbed for military applications of the velocity design, but now I'm wondering if this is the same one...
>  
> Actually I think that might have been a long-eze... Naw it couldn't be that one.
>  
> From: richard at naples-air-center.com
> Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 09:59:50 -0500
> To: reflector at tvbf.org
> Subject: Re: REFLECTOR: Now we know why N399DG was for sale
> 
> I heard a rumor, and only a rumor since the military and government are denying it, but this velocity is actually powered by a military surplus pulse jet engine from the Aurora Project. I cannot stress enough, this is only a rumor now.........
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> Richard 
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> On Nov 30, 2012, at 7:04 AM, Mark Magee <edjonesbrady at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Interesting. Might be a good buy, military surplus, pennies on the dollar, aerospace engineer built... Might even have a stealth jammer box installed that Uncle Sam's finest don't recognize and leave in the bird...
> 
> Mark B. Magee
> N34XL 
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> On Nov 29, 2012, at 8:20 PM, Clayton Chase <chasec at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Maybe I was the only one who didn't know, but it's bad news.
> This new source says it was partially built with materials he stole from the Navy.
> 
> http://hamptonroads.com/2012/11/navy-purchaser-diverted-74000-plane-gadgets
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