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bmckinney10 15
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Kent Ashton 239
An Open-EZ is a better option. Search this site for the "Open-ez" topic.
If you really want a Vari, I suggest you find a Varieze owner and ask to copy his plans or look for a project to rehab or complete. Bert Rutan has informally said he does not object to building Long-ezs from copied plans so either one is an option and a number of people are building from the Open-ez plans. Some recent discussion here
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fjk 0
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Can one get plans for the VariEze these days?
Many searches in many places have been unsuccessful but maybe it's just me...
Thanks,
f
ps - sorry if this is in the wrong place - pretty green here.
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Eugen 5
I did not fixed the fuselage bottom in my 3d model yet, but drawings are already done so far.
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On 2/26/2021 at 5:27 AM, Eugen said:
I use Autocad Inventor 3D include a CAD/CAM app for machine code that fits to my DIY mill.
Since last year I'm investigate the Quicke aircrafts in different ways and any valuable information I picked up from anyone, they are placed on my website.
I'm using Solidworks. Did your fuselage bottom not line up well too? Mine is off, It must be flexed together or something.
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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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