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The Velocity V-Twin is a four-seat (with a five-seat option), retractable tricycle landing gear, composite construction aircraft with a twin engine pusher configuration and the canard layout of the Velocity XL single engine aircraft. Its fuselage is that of the XL-RG, with the addition of the single, vertical surface which replaces the twin end ...
In March 1997, Velocity introduced the XL model, which features a larger cabin and space for a larger engine. [9] The XL-5, sometimes called a "dash five", was introduced in 2004. It reduced the size of the keel down the center of the cabin, giving more room in the back seat. [10] Velocity has developed a twin-engine model called the Velocity V ...
Since the V-22 became operational in 2007, 12 crashes and several other accidents and incidents have killed a total of 32 people. [2] [3] [4] Most of the crashes have involved the most numerous of the aircraft's three variants: the MV-22B, procured and flown by the U.S. Marine Corps.
The V-22 Osprey is a troop transport with a helicopter's versatility and a turboprop's speed. But the V-22 has crashed several times since becoming operational in 2007, killing over 50 people.
A light aircraft crashed after taking off from Malta, killing all five people on board in the island nation's worst peacetime air accident.
The skies turned deadly around one of the world’s biggest aviation events this weekend, as four people died in a pair of crashes associated with the annual EAA Airventure show in Oshkosh, Wisc.
Velocity XL-RG Velocity V-Twin Velocity XL-FG Fixed landing gear version with a gross weight of 2,700 lb (1,225 kg). Forty had been completed and flown by December 2011. [1] Velocity XL-FG-5 Fixed landing gear version with a gross weight of 2,900 lb (1,315 kg). Twenty-one had been completed and flown by December 2011. [1] Velocity XL-RG
U.S. Naval Air Systems Command has issued a flight clearance for the V-22 Osprey, three months after the military aircraft was grounded following a fatal crash in Japan, the U.S. Forces Japan and ...