Velocity SE

Velocity SE
Velocity SE
	Velocity SE RG at the Mojave Spaceport
General information
Type	Homebuilt aircraft
National origin	United States
Manufacturer	Velocity Aircraft
Designer	Duane Swing
History
Introduction date	1995
Variants	Velocity XL, Rocket Racer

The Velocity Model 173 SE (Standard Elite) is an entry-level canard pusher aircraft from Velocity Aircraft.^[1]^[2]^[3] The four seat, rear engine aircraft may be powered by a 160 hp (120 kW) Lycoming IO-320 or a 200 hp (150 kW) Lycoming IO-360 engine.^[1]

Variants

Velocity SE-FG: Fixed landing gear version, 88 completed and flown by December 2011.^[2]
Velocity SE-RG: Retractable landing gear version, 180 completed and flown by December 2011.^[2]
Rocket Racer: The Mark-I X-Racer, a rocketplane design for the Rocket Racing League built on a Velocity SE airframe. It was built by XCOR Aerospace with an XCOR XR-4K14 1,500 lbf (6,700 N) thrust rocket engine fuelled by LOX and kerosene.^[4] This rocket-powered aircraft flew several demonstration flights at the 2008 EAA AirVenture Oshkosh air show.^[5]

Data from ^[6]

General characteristics

Crew: 1/2
Capacity: 2/3 passengers / 1,000 lb (450 kg) payload
Length: 19 ft (5.8 m)
Wingspan: 29 ft 4 in (8.94 m)
Height: 7 ft 9 in (2.36 m)
Empty weight: 1,300 lb (590 kg)
Gross weight: 2,300 lb (1,043 kg)
Fuel capacity: 60 US gal (230 L; 50 imp gal)
Powerplant: 1 × Lycoming IO-360 4-cyl. horizontally-opposed air-cooled piston engine, 200 hp (150 kW)

Performance

Cruise speed: 187 kn (215 mph, 346 km/h) at 75% power
Landing speed: 70 kn (130 km/h; 81 mph)
Stall speed: 60 kn (69 mph, 110 km/h)
Never exceed speed: 200 kn (230 mph, 370 km/h) IAS
Range: 1,000 nmi (1,200 mi, 1,900 km) at 65% power
Service ceiling: 20,000 ft (6,100 m)
g limits: +12 -7
Rate of climb: 1,200 ft/min (6.1 m/s)
Wing loading: 18.88 lb/sq ft (92.2 kg/m²)

^ ^a ^b Velocity SE Archived 2010-07-06 at the Wayback Machine, Velocity Aircraft website, 2008, accessed 2010-12-11.
^ ^a ^b ^c Vandermeullen, Richard: 2011 Kit Aircraft Buyer's Guide, Kitplanes, Volume 28, Number 12, December 2011, page 75. Belvoir Publications. ISSN 0891-1851
^ "Velocity Aircraft" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 31 October 2012. Retrieved 11 September 2012.
^ "Twin 400 lb-thrust XR-4A3 engines aboard the EZ-Rocket". XCOR Aerospace. Archived from the original on 2010-11-25. Retrieved 2010-12-27.
^ XCOR X-Racer, by Nancy Atkinson, Universe Today, 2009-08-06, accessed 2010-04-26.
^ "Production Aircraft Specifications". velocityaircraft.coml. Retrieved 22 November 2015.