Rob Wright

For sale: 1. Unused Cozy Mark IV plans 2. Unopened Foam kit for Cozy Mark IV 3. Temperature controlled rolling epoxy cabinet with un-used epoxy pump and foot pump. 4. Rolling fiberglass cloth cabinet. 5. One gallon of aero epoxy and hardener. 6. Routing templates for the bulkheads. 7. Partial roll of BID 8. Bag of cotton flox. 9. Bag of micro balloons. $1500.00 for it all

when i saw the wing fly off the thought instantly popped into my head "he's dead"... but then a few seconds later it was clear it was fake.

Looks nice. It’s probably just the way I am looking at the photos. It looks like the passenger side inboard rudder pedal tube would make contact with the tube that carries over to the passenger side outboard rudder pedal tube when the passenger inboard rudder pedal is pressed fully? Does what I am saying make any sense? I am having trouble articulating what I see.

would you post another photo. A close up of where the tubes go through the bulkheads?

maybe soda blasting would take it out.

seems like you would be better off just selling the bio-diesel and buying a deltahawk.

Not to talk you out of selling it but make it a sweet two seater. one in front and one in back.

could add a gps gizmo to the plane so that it reports its position every once in a while. If its stolen you could at least locate it.

I have thought about scaling down my plans to build a model... but then I think it would be alot of work and i should just put that into my airplane and forget the model... you see the conundrum I am in.

i dont know but if you find it please post the info. I have thought this could be something that would be pretty cool to build. What wire would one use to build one.

so would you say that peel ply is not needed? just sand blasting where the peel ply should have gone?

The cozy construction technieques are integral to the design. Departing from them would dramaticly alter the plane in ways that would be very difficult if not impossible to evaluate. The construction techniques are specifically designed for a person to be able to build in his or her garage. Not being an Aeronautical engineer, or a material scientist I am unwilling to make anything but the most trivial changes to the plane or construction technieques. Check out the plastic peel ply conversations on this site. This is about as close to a mold as I think you want to get. Besides how would you get the molds... I guess you could take them from a flying cozy.

Does anyone know any new information about the NASA/TCM engine? I found an article at http://www.southern-aviator.com/editorial/articledetail.lasso?-token.key=8405&-token.src=column&-nothing where Teledyne Continental talks about future plans for their new engines. There is a paragraph near the end that follows: There is a common misperception that TCM has shelved the NASA/GAP engine. That speculation is wrong. The issues are funding and timing, which affect not only TCM but our OEM customers and the industry in general. The results of the GAP engine program clearly indicate that the concept is viable and could be commercialized successfully. As with the Honda program, we expect to make a decision regarding the use of the GAP in the not-too-distant future. the article is dated 11/21/2003

Congratulations John!!! I am so happy for you. You have been an inspiration. I look forward to your future flights and adventures.

With a numeric rating system a persons rating could be given a weight. For example a person who has completed an airplane would have a multiplier of two. All kinds of things could be given weights so that more qualified people could impact the importance of various pieces of information. This would give the people who have more knowledge in a specific area the ability to pull up pieces of information that they feel are most important. People like myself who don’t know much but who are reading all the time also would impact the "usefulness" of information but not to the degree that a veteran builder or specialist might.

Netflix has a pretty cool system of rating movies. After you rent a movie you rate them on a scale of 1 to 5. Consider a system for our community where each person can rate a thread based on its usefulness or some other measuring stick. From the collective whole the most important or interesting things will naturally rise to the top. This could be one interesting way of looking at the information that this community generates. I have been visiting this community on a regular basis for the past year or so and I really like the way we can communicate and participate. The contributions each of the builders who have gone before are amazing and make experimental aviation much safer and rewarding. Could a system like this help us?

I am a software engineer by day... Have been for about the last 10 years. I am looking forward to building something substantial that has some substance

just curios, How did Greg Richter set up the Razzle Dazzle?