Brian DeFord Posted October 6, 2005 Share Posted October 6, 2005 Just got home for the evening after flying Blonde Streak over to Casa Grande to the Copperstate fly-in. Not much is there yet, but Friday and Saturday are typically bigger days. We left Chandler municipal around 1:15 for the 15 minute flight. I took the plane up earlier in the day for a few touch and go's - the mornings are starting to cool off some, so it was pleasant. After landing and cleaning up the plane we loaded up. I took all three of my daughters with me - a first! Susan drove the van down to meet us and provide our ride home. I'll leave the plane there during the fly-in and drive back again each day. Looking forward to meeting anyone that can make it. Quote Brian DeFord Cozy MK-IV N309BD 'Blonde Streak' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Matcho Posted October 7, 2005 Share Posted October 7, 2005 Sounds like great fun. I missed that show by 1 week in 2003. How about posting a picture or two? Quote Jon Matcho Builder & Canard Zone Admin Now: Rebuilding Quickie Tri-Q200 N479E Next: Resume building a Cozy Mark IV Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian DeFord Posted October 9, 2005 Author Share Posted October 9, 2005 Added some pictures from Copperstate 2005. First one is of myself and the 3 littlest Blonde Streaks next to Blonde Streak after arrival. I had the fortune of having Cory Bird's beautiful Symmetry parked head to head with Blonde Streak. The next photo shows Symmetry in the forground with Blonde Streak in the background - much as it was all day! The crowds around Symmetry never let up. The next two are of Cozy N22AZ originally built by Robin Dubois. They were just leaving as I took the picture. Next is Doug Pitzer's Cozy MK-IV N433DP - a very pretty Cozy! Quote Brian DeFord Cozy MK-IV N309BD 'Blonde Streak' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian DeFord Posted October 9, 2005 Author Share Posted October 9, 2005 Ahmed Asif flew his Cozy N509MS in from California. So did Jorgen Skovbjerk in his Cozy N655DK both are pictures below. There were half a dozen LongEZ's and VariEZ's in attendance as well. The last photo is some of them grazing - sorry I didn't get details. Quote Brian DeFord Cozy MK-IV N309BD 'Blonde Streak' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Matcho Posted October 10, 2005 Share Posted October 10, 2005 Looks like a great fly-in -- good weather, small and a bunch of canards. I also notice that Jorgen's Cozy III (2nd pic in the 2nd set) has full-length rudders and no lower winglets. There's another discussion here about whether full-length rudders are a worthwhile modification. I'm planning on keeping the lower winglets, but likely not as tall. Any thoughts? Thanks for the report Brian! Quote Jon Matcho Builder & Canard Zone Admin Now: Rebuilding Quickie Tri-Q200 N479E Next: Resume building a Cozy Mark IV Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dale_R Posted October 10, 2005 Share Posted October 10, 2005 Sounds like great fun. I missed that show by 1 week in 2003. How about posting a picture or two? The first photo is "glass row" on Thursday; the second is Friday morning. The organizers seriously underestimated the canard participation and "glass row" filled up by 08:30 Friday. They had to start squeezing the canards in whereever they could among the RVs. Dale R. (___ COZY MkIV-R13B #1254 |----==(___)==----| Ch's 4, 5, 9, 16 & 23 in progress o/ | \o http://www.canardzone.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1388 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Matcho Posted October 10, 2005 Share Posted October 10, 2005 They had to start squeezing the canards in whereever they could among the RVs.I hope no RVs were harmed... Looks like HTML mutilated your signature. Try putting '.' characters in to preserve the space. Quote Jon Matcho Builder & Canard Zone Admin Now: Rebuilding Quickie Tri-Q200 N479E Next: Resume building a Cozy Mark IV Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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