Bexx

Survivability arguments are ubiquitous and apply to all aircraft in some form or another. RVs are also ubiquitous and by and large have an excellent safety record - including crash worthiness - for controlled forced landings. Not perfect, but they’re experimental after all. We all know the investigation is going to largely focus on power plant suitability, reliability, maintenance and compliance practices. That’s a deep rabbit hole. no need to go down the low wing vs high wing rabbit hole.

Power may well not be the only issue. I’m led to believe it had an BEW north of 600kg and a MTOW of 950kg with capacity for 250L of fuel. 2 reasonable sized guys and bags plus that much fuel - even with 200hp (which seems optimistic) I can see that performance being very anaemic by RV standards. Hopefully the report sheds more light.

I doubt there’s any VNE issues with any sube conversion I’ve ever seen. MKX looks to never have gone any quicker than 130Kts. As someone once said. They’re small horses… The stats don’t lie. If you have an auto conversion - esp a sube in a RV- not only are the odds are against you, you’ll be slow. for all those who say the EJ is awesome, jump in you STI and do 100kph in 2nd gear only and see how long it lasts. It won’t be 200,000k.