The Orel VH2 Streamline is a French
ultralight aircraft that was designed by Jean-Francois Boudet and is under development by
Orel Aircraft of
Selles-Saint-Denis, introduced at the
AERO Friedrichshafen show in 2015. The aircraft will be supplied complete and ready-to-fly.
[Tacke, Willi; Marino Boric; et al: ''World Directory of Light Aviation 2015-16'', page 71. Flying Pages Europe SARL, 2015. ]
Design and development
The VH2 Streamline was designed to comply with the
Fédération Aéronautique Internationale microlight rules. It features a cantilever
low-wing, low-mounted
tailplane
A tailplane, also known as a horizontal stabilizer, is a small lift (force), lifting surface located on the tail (empennage) behind the main lifting surfaces of a fixed-wing aircraft as well as other non-fixed-wing aircraft such as helicopters ...
, an enclosed cockpit with two-seats-in-
side-by-side configuration under a
bubble canopy, fixed
tricycle landing gear and a single engine in
tractor configuration.
The aircraft is made from
carbon fibre
Carbon fiber-reinforced polymers (American English), carbon-fibre-reinforced polymers ( Commonwealth English), carbon-fiber-reinforced plastics, carbon-fiber reinforced-thermoplastic (CFRP, CRP, CFRTP), also known as carbon fiber, carbon comp ...
. Its span
elliptical wing has an area of and mounts
flaps. It has an electrically-operated canopy and a
side-stick controller. The cockpit width is . The standard engine used is the
ULPower UL260i four-stroke
A four-stroke (also four-cycle) engine is an internal combustion (IC) engine in which the piston completes four separate strokes while turning the crankshaft. A stroke refers to the full travel of the piston along the cylinder, in either directio ...
powerplant.
As of 2015 the company was looking for a partner to bring the aircraft to production.
Variants
;VH2 Streamline
:Model with fixed landing gear,
ULPower UL260i engine, gross weight, first flown in 2014. To be sold complete and ready to fly.
;VH2X Streamline
:Proposed model with retractable landing gear, engine, gross weight, not yet flown. To be sold as a quick-build kit for
amateur construction.
Specifications (VH2 Streamline)
References
External links
*{{Official website, http://www.vh2streamline.com/
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