The Orel VH2 Streamline is a French ultralight aircraft that was designed by Jean-Francois Boudet and is under development by

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, introduced at the

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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

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microlight rules. It features a cantilever

low-wing A monoplane is a fixed-wing aircraft configuration with a single mainplane, in contrast to a biplane or other types of multiplanes, which have multiple planes. A monoplane has inherently the highest efficiency and lowest drag of any wing confi ...

, low-mounted

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, an enclosed cockpit with two-seats-in-

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under a

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, fixed

tricycle landing gear Tricycle gear is a type of aircraft undercarriage, or ''landing gear'', arranged in a tricycle fashion. The tricycle arrangement has a single nose wheel in the front, and two or more main wheels slightly aft of the center of gravity. Tricycle g ...

and a single engine in

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. The aircraft is made from

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. Its span

elliptical wing An elliptical wing is a wing planform whose leading and trailing edges each approximate two segments of an ellipse. It is not to be confused with annular wings, which may be elliptically shaped. Relatively few aircraft have adopted the elliptica ...

has an area of and mounts flaps. It has an electrically-operated canopy and a

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controller. The cockpit width is . The standard engine used is the

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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,

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/ VH2 Streamline 2010s French ultralight aircraft Homebuilt aircraft Single-engined tractor aircraft Aircraft first flown in 2014 Low-wing aircraft