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Varieze equiped with a Turbomeca Palas<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Geoffrey’s Varijet project was to re-engine his Varieze <\/strong>with a Turbomeca Palas<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Geoffrey Danes joined the SAAA (Sport Aircraft Association of Australia) in 1976 and built a Varieze<\/a> (#2 in the air in Australia in Sept, 1979)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His second project was a one of a kind composite aerobatic aircraft : the Maverick <\/strong>which was undertaken with Graham Swanell. First flown in December 1987.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Varieze jet renamed Varijet, is now flying with turbojet power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Geoff made the first flight of the \u2018VariJet\u2019 with the jet engine, on 28 October 2018<\/strong>, at Jandakot Airport.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Varieze VHN-DED : 1980, Geoff and Burt Rutan. Source : Airsport Magazine, October 2014<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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2011 : First tests for the installation of the turbojet engine. With courtesy of Geoffrey Danes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Palas #99 on the Varijet. With courtesy of Geoffrey Danes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Varieze equiped with a Turbomeca Palas Geoffrey’s Varijet project was to re-engine his Varieze with a Turbomeca Palas.  Geoffrey Danes joined the SAAA (Sport Aircraft Association of Australia) in 1976 and built a Varieze (#2 in the air in Australia in Sept, 1979) His second project was a one of a kind composite aerobatic aircraft : the Maverick which was […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5182,"parent":2891,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"planes-000-100":[],"class_list":["post-3657","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plane-150-300"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/minijets.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/minijets.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/minijets.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/minijets.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/minijets.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/minijets.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3657\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/minijets.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2891"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/minijets.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/minijets.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/minijets.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/minijets.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3657"},{"taxonomy":"planes-000-100","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/minijets.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/planes-000-100?post=3657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}