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Rainey 0
On 1/13/2020 at 11:38 AM, Kent Ashton said:VARIEZE • FOR SALE AS IS • Currently stored Ty.258 engine 0200 Ty..1600 Too many projects. 15000. Obo. Raymond Parker513-884-9637 • Contact Raymond Parker, Owner - located Loveland, OH United States • Telephone: 513 884 9637 • 513 583 9637 • Posted January 12, 2020
I spoke with Mr Parker on the phone a few minutes ago. He told me that he built this Eze and first flew it in 2005. Currently he's got so many airplanes and projects that he had to disassemble this one to make hangar space for the others. Presently the wings, canards, engine and canopy are removed. Last flown in 2017.
Rainey
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Kent Ashton 171
I noticed this ad on ebay today: It is probably the same as the Open-EZ plans that are available on this site but it might be handy to have on a CD if you just want a cheap source to study the construction. These days, even original plans are a little dated. There have been many good ideas and improvements to the EZ since RAF closed shop that have not be incorporated in the plans but the basic design is still quite viable. Follow-on owners would probably do well to have a copy of the plans, too. [FYI, Burt said publicly a few years ago that he did not object to persons building from copied plans but he hoped they would not call it a Long-EZ in order to reduce his potential liability.]
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Kent Ashton 171
Perhaps you could convince someone on the canard-aviators list to send you some copies. https://canardzone.groups.io/g/canard-aviators
I am not aware of any digitized versions, not to say they are aren't any. Maybe the TERF CD. Another idea: Do an FAA registry search for Varieze owners in your area and start calling around
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Post in Kent's Long-EZ project
Kent Ashton posted a post in a topic,
Saw this oil cooler door idea (pic 1) on a FB page but I don't like it. The chap has an ingenious linkage to open and close the slots in flight but the problem is that when full open, half the cooler is blocked by the apparatus and even when open, the slots create drag on the air flow. In hot weather, you will want the whole cooler working.
I have a pic of a cooler using louvers by Marc Z. that is a better idea but it might be copyrighted so you will have to imagine it. :-)
I did not give this enough thought when building the Cozy. Eventually I arrived at this slider (pics 2,3) which is satisfactory but not in-flight adjustable. With experience, I know about where to set it. This time of year (Nov), it covers about 2/3rds of the cooler. In the winter it will block the entire cooler. Doing it again, I would offset the cooler which might have given the space for a cable-operated slider.
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XPanel Software
Dgalo posted a topic in Long-EZ,
Below is a sample of a panel I laid out using XPanel software. Jim Evans was asking about instrument panel software on the Yahoo groups forum and you can no longer post attachments so here it is ....
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Infinity retracts
Richard posted a topic in Landing Gear,
I am looking for a set of Infinity retract landing gear for sale. New or used.
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New canard aircraft designs in the works
Jon Matcho posted a topic in All Others,
There's a long history with ongoing discussion about new and coming (and gone) canard aircraft that have been in the works over the years. This thread makes for some interested reading and lessons to be learned.-
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A heapin' helpin' of builder links
Kent Ashton posted a topic in Builder Progress Reports & Motivation,
We'll be adding a list of curated links to the Canard Zone in the coming weeks, but here are a few in the meantime for your browsing pleasure...-
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