EG33 Turbo - Airplane video
 

Mmmmmmmmn, turbo:drool:

Re: EG33 Turbo - Airplane video
 

Oh, perfect!

I love Vari-EZ, Long-EZ, and Beech Starship designs. aft-wing and forward canard designs are very cool. The Velocity is an adaptation of the Long-EZ design, and an extension of the original Vari-EZ.

Burt Rutan, the designer is one of my favorite aircraft designers and engineers.

Other than a jet engine conversion, either thrust or prop...
...a turbocharged EG33 boxer would be a very, very cool power plant for that type of aircraft.

Even it it's unfinished state, this plane looks like it is going to be VERY cool. It even looks like it is a rectractable-gear version.

Just for eye-candy, here is one from Velocity's website gallery:
http://www.velocityaircraft.com/Gall...s/DSC00271.jpg

Re: EG33 Turbo - Airplane video
 

That's so badass. What other engines do they usually use for those?

Re: EG33 Turbo - Airplane video
 

Years ago (mid-1990s?), an aviation writer named Peter Garrison lead into his Flying magazine article on light aircraft powerplants with an accounting of his recent experience looking under the hood of an SVX. I wonder if I can find that article online...

dcb

Re: EG33 Turbo - Airplane video
 

Sometimes they use Lycoming flat engines... or other small-aircraft common engines.

But it is not uncommon to use Mazda rotaries, VW/Porsche, or Subaru boxers... somewhat often turbocharged.

anything compact enough to fit in the engine nacelle, with enough power to get the plane at it's appropriate weight rating to perform and climb properly.

I am no pilot, and not an aerodynamicist of any kind... but just as someone who appreciates sleek and effective machines and fresh, rational thinking... I would love to see an aircraft like that, or just slightly bigger, as a Very Light Jet, or possibly a twin-jet... either thrust-force turbofan, or a turboshaft driving a prop.

I've always loved this aircraft, and sadly it was under-appreciated, and de-commissioned. Beechcraft/Raytheon Starship 2000, obviously also a Burt Rutan design, very closely related to the Long-EZ, which the Velocity is a variant of. The Starship was the first aircraft of it's type to be constructed from composite materials. Maiden flight was in February of 1986, almost 25 years ago.
http://static.rcgroups.com/forums/at...g?d=1221222479

I just wonder what current technology and jet propulsion could do on an update of that design. :D

Re: EG33 Turbo - Airplane video
 

i want that effing engine.....:eek: