Evans VP-2 G-BTAZ

As the VW engine was originally intended for aviation use it really begs the question. What was the performance of the trainer it was intended to power? Not so much a rate of climb as a curvature of the earth departure I reckon.

The VP-2’s performance leaves a lot to be desired on a VW, so I’m told.

The VP of which I speak had rested, decaying slowly, in the knobs’ hangar at our strip, deep in the heart of E Anglia for a good few years until its momentous last flight in 2004/5

Moggy

Chap on our strip had one. He looked quite intelligent and he was a bank-manager so must have had the odd brain cell or three. I rather went off him when he came out of the sun one evening and did a three-quarter attack on me in my Airtourer without warning. (I’d have been really good in 1940!) His was the VP-1 single-seater and he had a lot of fun with it. It appeared to be reliable on the power of it’s VW engine and he took it with him when his bank moved him further into East Anglia. Blowed if I can rememeber the registration though.

I think we are talking of the same.

Moggy

Moggy C……..would that be SP from Kent?

Cheers.

I taxied a VP2 once but never got to fly it (damned weather!). Apparantly iy is only really a 2 seater if the other occupant is a small child!

I’m not sure plans are even available for the VP-2 these days.

These two sites may be of interest – I just happened to have them bookmarked:

http://evansair.com

http://volksplane.me.uk

AR,
VP was indeed an abbreviation for Volks Plane.
The VP.2 was a two seat development of the VP.1 Often referred to as “the plank” due to its shape.
The VP.2 appears not to have been as popular in the UK as the VP.1
For more details haveyou tried contacting the PFA?
ATB
Gary

G-BTAZ was seemingly never flown, though registered in Dec 1990 by builder Stephen Poulter of Knebworth.

I have a chum who bought a VP.

His venture into aircraft ownership lasted something in the region of one minute between his first ever take-off in his own pride and joy and his first ever EFATO. 😮

Moggy