Paul
My friend Fred who building the twin with me forgot to lower his landing gear on his Velocity XLRG during a precotional landing practice in Pahookee Fl  3 months ago ,and try to overshoot but he was to close of the runway and the prop hit the runway surface and the lower part of the firewall and still flying to the grass on the left side and hit so hard the fuselage was a complete scrap.
Fred as been to the hospital with his instructor for over a month and he had spine injury, he is walking now with a body scan and he does lot of therapy every day .
Fred is recuperating very well
I check for  wings and their seems fixable if the spar is not broken which I have the feeling it still in good shape, the strake fuel cell still good and canard is fixable and I will need less surface.
I changed my design and we will reuse as much as we can from the Velocity for the twin construction plus the wing will be extended 24"  each side and  adding flaps and slats.
I did a schematic wiring diagram as we will add to the gear system to prevent the same mistake.
I am at the stage of  extending my garage of 25ft plus an outside concrete slab 12'by 35' and should be completed in a few months.
 I will start the twin construction after then.
I am following all your developments on the rotary every day.


JEAN PRUDHOMME


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