On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 19:38:03 -0700, Ron Wanttaja wrote:

Gregory Hall wrote:

This is the safest homebuilt IMO.(VariEze ). The canard makes it foolproof.

If that were the case, the Velocity would have a better safety record
than the Lancair family. Based on my statistics from 1999 through 2006,
it doesn't... the Velocity has about a 20% higher accident rate. In
fact, the Velocity has a rate almost three TIMES higher that of the RV
fleet. Which isn't doesn't use canards, either.

The difference in fleet size does affect the statistics, of course....

Ron Wanttaja

Ron, do you judge from this that the Velocity (or the pusher/canards in
general) have basic design issues (such as the Lancair's low speed
regime history)?