TYPE: Tandem-seat sportplane kitbuilt.

PROGRAMME: Designed by Max Vogelsang; name indicates Vogelsang Technik, 320 hp, 2 seats. Inspired by, and derived from, DR 107 One Design single-seater, one of which acquired by MSW and flown as HB-YJM. Prototype Votec 322 (HB-YJY) made first flight 6 April 2001 and public debut at Friedrichshafen Air Show later that month. Certified by Swiss FOCA.

CUSTOMERS: Sixth aircraft made initial flight on 26 May 2006. Customers in Austria, Germany and Switzerland.

COSTS: Kit EUR155,000 basic, excluding engine, propeller and instruments (2003).

DESIGN FEATURES: Low-wing monoplane with symmetrical aerofoil section and angular flying surfaces. Available only as a kit, but MSW provides factory-based builder's assistance programme.

FLYING CONTROLS: Conventional and manual. Near full-span ailerons; horn-balanced rudder and elevators; in-flight-adjustable trim tab in each elevator.

STRUCTURE: Welded 4130 steel tube fuselage main frame; plywood-covered wooden wings; carbon fibre wing skin, fuselage skin and tail unit.

LANDING GEAR: Tailwheel type; fixed. Fuselage-mounted spring cantilever mainwheel legs with wheel fairings; steerable tailwheel. Mainwheel speed fairings.

POWER PLANT: One 246 kW (330 hp) Textron Lycoming AEIO-540 flat-six engine, driving an MT-Propeller MTV-14 four-blade constant-speed propeller. Fuel in integral 43 litre (11.4 US gallon; 9.5 Imp gallon) tank in each wingroot, plus 110 litre (29.1 US gallon; 24.2 Imp gallon) fuselage tank; total capacity thus 196 litres (51.9 US gallons; 43.2 Imp gallons).

ACCOMMODATION: Two persons in tandem under one-piece canopy which opens sideways to starboard.

AVIONICS: Described as 'glass cockpit' standard.

DIMENSIONS, EXTERNAL:

• Wing span: 7.30 m (23 ft 11½ in)
• Length overall: 6.50 m (21 ft 4 in)
• Height overall: 2.50 m (8 ft 2½ in)
• Propeller diameter: 1.95 m (6 ft 4¾ in)

AREAS:

• Wing area: 10.50 m² (113.0 sq ft)
• Ailerons (total): 1.50 m² (16.15 sq ft)

WEIGHTS AND LOADINGS:

• Weight empty: 630 kg (1,389 lb)
• Max T-O weight: 950 kg (2,094 lb)
• Max wing loading: 90.5 kg/m² (18.53 lb/sq ft)
• Max power loading: 3.86 kg/kW (6.34 lb/hp)

PERFORMANCE:

• Never-exceed speed (V_NE): 220 kt (407 km/h; 253 mph)
• Max. crising speed: 174 kt (322 km/h; 200 mph)
• Stalling speed: 55 kt (102 km/h; 64 mph)
• Max rate of climb at S/L: 1,036 m (3,400 ft)/min
• Max rate of roll: 420°/s
• T-O run: 112 m (370 ft)
• Landing run: 350 m (1,150 ft)
• Range: 750 n miles (1,389 km; 863 miles)
• Endurance: 3 h
• g limits: ±10