Velocity V-Twin - Review & Specs Of Starships Brother 

I would like to see more up to date videos on the V-Twin , owners posting the pros / cons / cost / performance Thanks for showing this video. .

Love the looks of this new model.😊

never exceed speed is based on indicated airspeed (measured using ram air) which is different than true airspeed. IAS and TAS separate further apart the higher you go. This means 200 knots on the airspeed indicator reflects a 230 knot true airspeed in standard conditions at 10,000ft. In this case, never exceed speed has not been exceeded, yet the true airspeed is 230.

Velocity makes an extraordinary product. The fiberglass frame is hyper sturdy, exceeding the carbon fiber designs from Cirrus. The twin will appeal to those that want engine redundancy, but is substantially slower than the single engine XL-RG. Both planes use the same fuselage, the Twin adds the tail (where the engine mounts for the XL), and the nacelles for the engines mounted on the wings. But all else is the same.

Great video, thanks! JMB VL3 might be a great next video.

Canards are more suited for laminar flow as the prop slipstream is dirty and turbulent, so basically everything behind it cannot be laminar. A pusher canard, on the other hand, doesn't have that issue and the fuselage as well as the inboard portion of the wing and canard are able to go through laminar flow...it doesn't mean they ARE laminar, it just means they have the potential to be if designed in such a way. The downside is that this works against a pusher as well. In a tractor configuration, the propeller is going through stable laminar air and as such the blades are able to make more efficient thrust for more performance. In a pusher, the prop is guaranteed to see dirty turbulent air and loses that advantage. It all comes out in the wash for the most part unless you're able to make the entire aircraft fuselage laminar flow at all times, which is something the Celera 500 is attempting.

Great video! Thanks!!

The first Velocity you showed is a "standard" 180 or 200 HP 0-360 engine. It's the one where you got to jump up on the wing to get in. I fly one. The SE is the next model where there is door to get in.

Vne is Indicated AirSpeed (IAS). The 230kt cruise speed at 75% power is True AirSpeed (TAS). It does not say in those specs what altitude they achieved those speeds, but the higher the altitude, the bigger the difference between IAS and TAS. And by the way, there is no plural for the word Aircraft. You can have one Aircraft or many Aircraft. There is no such word as Aircrafts.

Awesome!

The 180HP Delta Hawk diesel now has 235 HP available from the same engine with different fuel delivery and turbo. This will be a certified engine not some unreliable over boosted backyard build. That’s 470 HP installed instead of 360 HP. You get a super efficient bird with really impressive climb and cruise.

Thank you a really interesting airplane would be great to hear about the diesel option which appears to outperform the a gas models and at a better fuel economy Wonder if it is possible to add in STOL modifications ?

Laminar flow. Can’t comment whether the canard contributes. Propellers create low pressure ahead of themselves. Pusher mounted on the wing thus suck the air over the wing assisting the boundary layer. No idea of the drag reduction, likely not much and proportionally less the faster the plane goes.

great twin❤

amazing aircraft video Slightly different from the others, the placement of the propeller is in the rear position

Excellent video. thanks so much for creating and sharing this. (instant sub!) I've always been a fan of EZ, long EZ, Cozy and Velocity! I really wish the two models in MSFS that are available had better physics closer to the real way the craft operates, but I'm pretty sure it's a roadblock on Microsoft's part. I'd pay pretty good money for that upgrade (also a cozy would be my biggest MSFS wish!)

looking at the high mount rear engine, i speculate it has a tendency to nose up in flight that canard and the lack of flap seems to suggest that. the canard would push the nose down for level flight.

i saw the starship fly back in the day

Need that TKS de-icing and we are good to go

The canard increases efficiency because it is a lifting surface. A normal airplane with the tail in the back has a downforce surface which has to be overcome by lift from the main wing. Lift equals drag which equals lower speed.

Like to try one.

I think it is also the case that the canard is a lifting surface whereas the horizontal stabilizer in a conventionally configured plane produces down force.

I wonder what the limiting factor on Vne is? It looks to me like it could safely go a lot faster. The shape of the canard?

Now, if Velocity would introduce a stretched fuselage, allowing 6 or even 7 total seats...

beautiful plane

they got 230kts based off of True airspeed, not indicated, which is what the VNE is based off of. if you go high enough you'll reach 230 TAS whilst less than 200 IAS

pressurize it and put deicing on the leading edges FL 26 would be great - P210 can have it why not this?

It is not mandatory for european light sport equivalent aircraft to have a recovery parachute. We just do it cus' we like it

I’d fly one if I could afford to fly. And I would add a parachute to it just in case. It’s hard to believe there’s anything safer!

The issue with canard craft, and this is coming from a pilot who has test flew a Velocity, there are no flaps. You take off and land fast, around 90-100knts. Its not unmanageable and many planes land at those speeds but its a big jump up from you typical Cessna. People want to get in this after their PPL (me included) with 100 hours and end up falling behind the plane.

Nice review but your comparison missed the very impressive, in production and expensive, Piaggio Evo Avanti P180 which is all that the Beech Starship hoped to be. The Piaggio is way more efficient and fast than other twin turboprops!

The twin is a looker.

six seater ?

Richard rutan has got to be in there somewhere The Long easy

With the savings as compared to the Diamond, Id imagine someone can rig a BRS on it, both take the cake for fun factor, geat video !

The idea that the canard airplanes are safer has not worked out in practice. They’ve had their share of accidents. While you can’t stall them (unless you exceed the aft cg limit, then you’re screwed) the cost of the canard presents other risks, like high approach speeds, long takeoff and landing distances, non conventional handling characteristics etc. and if you mismanage your energy and get too slow you will still crash. There’s a great video on youtube of a long ez crash landing at an airshow after screwing up a landing. It goes splat and rips off the gear and goes skidding along the grass. So don’t believe the safety hype of canards.

So why add that big tailfin/rudder? Why not at the wingtips, like the others?

The canard increases efficiency because it adds lift instead of decreasing it. Standard horizontal tail stabilizers create downforce which the wing must overcome.

Those Deltahawk Diesel numbers seem too good to be true!

“Of course it’s Beechcraft St … I mean Piaggio Avanti”

One problem with these designs is the turbulent air being taken in by the propellers.

“Why doesn’t every hone build have a BRS?” Because a BRS is fucking expensive and must periodically be professionally serviced which costs even more money. Most of us folks work for a living m8.

Very interesting tech, for an interesting-looking aircraft. That said, at nearly $150K for an engine-less airframe, this is a toy for those hoping to be among the 1% - a trophy that, like much of the rest of private aviation, has some incidental usefulness.

Great video, but may I suggest changing your speaking tone to be slightly livelier. It's odd days we live in, and I can't quite tell if this is human speaking or an advanced AI voice model, and videos with AI voice models get far less views. If it is an AI voiceover, unlike most AI videos, I can tell some serious research and thought went into this and want to make sure you get the most views for doing real work.

BRS requires few years maitenande/repleacemet. It is expensive - that is why.

I turned up the volume and still barely can hear you.

Cessna 172 does not land at 75 Knots, closer to 60 Knots.

Isn’t that the plane John Denver died in?

Seems pretty cheap to fly with the diesel hawk.

The maintenance on it is a concern, Florida is where you'd have to fly it to for maintenance more than likely, I don't have the time to go build a plane, it's hard enough to learn to fly it, so I'd have to buy one built by the factory, and I can't deal with the No Flaps part of it. There needs to be a way to slow the stall speed and shorten takeoff's and Landings, and to make it grass strip landing worthy. I'd rather fly this plane for speed, efficiency, and fun and looks, but the negatives and the unknowns outweigh the possibilities unfortunately. I'm looking for a Cessna RG with a turbo, then I can go near as fast and not far off on efficiency, maintenance locally and cheap, re-sale is good, and grass strip worthy, STOL kits available, and Much safer landings and take offs. I hate it but that's the best for me.

canard aircraft don't stall. if the main wing loses lift because the pilot has screwed up badly either in weight and balance or with the flight controls, the aircraft falls in a "falling leaf" pattern, almost always staying upright. the sink rate of this falling leaf is roughly the same as the sink rate of an aircraft under a parachute. crash statistics do not justify canard aircraft would benefit from a recovery parachute. government regulation and bureaucratic interference in aviation is why general aviation and specifically experimental aviation in Europe are a tiny fraction of the industry in the US. If you want to destroy innovation and eliminate the industry, let the regulators loose.

Bullpup plane :)

Has anyone considered electrifying this bird?

Stupid graphics, what's with all the flashy lights, let the story through without the eye fatigues

You will not be safe in ice with a canards system.

No, this aircraft is BS