Move Velocity

Here are some tips from builder's on how to move your fuselage after the spar has been installed. These are by builder's who mostly built jigs to move their airplanes themselves, but I do want to put in a plug for Roger Cummins of Three Feathers (937-533-6111), he moved my airplane from the house to the airport, and picked us up again when we had our little incident in Otisco.

N44VF Brett Ferrell

Here's a shot of Roger picking us up to go to the airport.

And here's a shot of Roger picking us up in Otisco, that guy's like a bad penny. ;-)

Before installing the spar, the kit is pretty easy to move. Velocity packed ours in a Ryder truck, and Elizabeth brought 44 Victor Foxx home Cincinnati herself (she's a trooper).

Unknown Velocity

I don't recall who's move this is, if you contact me I'll attribute this properly, and I'd like to include some details here as well!

N98EF Erik Franks

Here are some google sketch-ups from Erik Frank's blog, he's trying to buy Bob Santom's Velocity and move it to Austin.

Won't fit?

N713MR Ronnie Brown

Here's one way of moving a Velocity. This is an XLRG. This move was complicated by the fact the aircraft and gear were damaged.

We built cradles to fit just behind the main gear and one under the canard bulkhead. The crane was used to pick up the fuselage, set it in the cradles, then the truck crane was used to haul it for about 150 miles. The fuselage was tilted approximately 30 degrees to keep the width under 12'. We had to get wide load permits but since the load was under 12' wide so no escorts required.

The cradles were built up using 1/2" plywood on 2x4 frames. Foam blocks shaped to fit the fuselage were inserted between the plywood and extended out from the plywood about 1" to support the fuselage evenly.

My plane is a 173 and by turning the fuselage sideways, I was able to keep it under 12'. This was from the airport that I built the plane at to another airport that had a nice long 6000' runway.

Ronnie Brown

Mark Means

I did something like this when I prematurely moved it to the airport a couple years ago, built a 2x12 “right triangle” bolted to the firewall and wing attach points to hold it up near 60 degrees to keep the width down. That was before the engine was mounted and the weight went up. Thanks for the pics, I get the idea. You mention the goal was to get the width under 12’. I have a 173 and I believe it is just about 12’ wide as it sits horizontal. Two questions, is your plane wider than this and is 12’ legal? Thanks.

Mark