Open Vari

[Kent Ashton]

I ran across copies of the Varieze plans at this website  https://vdoc.pub/documents/burt-rutan-varieze-aircraft-plan-d1-4r17i2m7qe10    including templates, builder manual and POH.  They appear to be good plans and I'll post them here in a couple of formats.  Just to review the status of copied plans,  Burt Rutan said many years ago that he did not object to people building from copied plans but he asked that they not call these airplanes a Long-ez or Varieze to protect his liability.  Of course Rutan Aircraft Factory closed long ago and there is no formal support for the Varieze but there is plenty of informal support.  The Canard Pushers are still available  (see  http://www.cozybuilders.org/ )   Many of the required parts can be obtained from current parts-sellers for the Cozy and Long-ez.  (See "Other Reference Information - Authorized & Non-authorized suppliers" in the same cozybuilders site.

With the price of avgas possibly going to $10.gallon or more. A design that can cruise on 4 gph seems quite a good idea again.vez2.rar

Varieze_templates.zip A7.tif A6.tif VariEzeDrawings.pdf A4.tif A5.tif A1.tif A2.tif A3.tif A8.tif A9.tif burt-rutan-varieze-aircraft-plan-d1_compress.pdf

[Kent Ashton]

It appears the Builder's (Manufacturer's) Manual is to big to upload (>59.9 Mb).  For now you can download it from the first vdoc site mentioned above but the site is squirrelly to use.  Click on this link    https://vdoc.pub/author/burt-rutan  or click on the first vdoc link mentioned above and select "Author: Burt Rutan"   and look for the file "Burt Rutan Varieze Aircraft Plan A1 [PDF]" which is chapters 1-10 and "A2" which is Chapters 11-end.

Edited August 18, 2022 by Kent Ashton

[zolotiyeruki]

Kent, you're a rock star.  If we could build a whole library of plans, that would be awesome.  I know Jon has a set of Defiant plans that are on his to-do list to scan and post as well.  It's a pity no plans were ever published for Catbird or Boomerang...

Edited July 6, 2022 by zolotiyeruki

[Kent Ashton]

I am finding that there are more files/drawings/addendums in the original download site so I will need to reorganize and compress some of them.  The Builders Manual above is only half the manual (Chap 11 to end).  Chapters 1-10 was a file to big to load for the moment but it is there.  See "related documents"  "Plan A1" and "Plan A2".  I will eventually get it organized and clean up the topic. 

For now, here is the link to the Builders Manual Chapters 1-10   https://vdoc.pub/documents/burt-rutan-varieze-aircraft-plan-a1-4tr7u4nc6r60

Link to load tests and other information  https://vdoc.pub/documents/burt-rutan-varieze-aircraft-plan-c1-6j108tr9iv10

Link to Canard Pushers, I believe   https://vdoc.pub/documents/burt-rutan-varieze-aircraft-plan-canard-pusher-1-5gioii53v270     and     https://vdoc.pub/documents/burt-rutan-varieze-aircraft-plan-canard-pusher-2-462o1cb0n4m0

Link to some other blueprints   https://vdoc.pub/documents/burt-rutan-varieze-aircraft-plan-b123-5m4sc84gq8n0

That vdoc site is sort of quirky.

Edited July 9, 2022 by Kent Ashton

[MaximeDM]

Thanks for the documents Kent, I have just bought a Varieze, and I plan to mount a rotax 912 IS on it. I am modeling the aircraft in CAD so all the drawings are helpfull for me !

When I will be more advanced, I will share details about my projet.