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ekisbey

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    Whatever I can get my claws on

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    Evan Kisbey
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    Tucson, AZ
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    Arizona National Guard, full time student

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    Cozy Mark IV
  • Plans/Kit Number
    1114
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  1. The build itself can cause weight loss -- your first exotherm is gotta be worth at least a pound from the stress.
  2. ...Interesting, anyhow. Reminds me of those guys from South America... similar engine setup, though theirs was not a rotary. Can't remember their names...
  3. Scaling up the aircraft is indeed akin to desinging a whole different machine. It's also unneccessary. In general, its not the overall size of the Cozy that's the issue; the useful payload is sufficient for persons of larger build and there's plenty of spare legroom. The big problems arise in hip space and shoulder room and the overall shape of the interior. In the Cozy, very tall persons find problems can arise with headroom and range of motion -- your head feels very close to the canopy and the distance from seat to stick is less than the distance from wrist to elbow. These issues have largely been solved over the years by various builders who had similar problems. Many variations of these mods, such removing the center console for more hip room, moving the seatback for extra legroom and seat-to-stick distance, and raising the canopy for more headroom, can be stacked together to free up significant space inside the aircraft. Lengthened strakes such as those implemented by the Cozy Girrrls also help with this issue. Raising the leg cutouts in the IP help those of us with long legs get in and out more easily witout the contortions. Reducing the thickness of the cushions frees up headroom, room in the leg cutouts, and additional legroom. What these mods all have in common is that they either make no changes to the exterior shape or they make changes known to have a negligible impact on the performace/safety of the aircraft. Scaling up the aircraft as a whole has been debated over and over and over again, here and elsewhere. Several people are actully doing it, and one or two are even said to be flying. Unfortunately, not one has (so far) posted hard numbers or evidence from acutal flight testing which demonstrate the safety of their modification. I'd be hesitant to pursue such an approach without further evidence that what I was doing was safe and didn't involve any hidden "gotcha's."
  4. You'll fit. Only just, but there are some options to improve the situation. There are several committed Cozy builders approximately your size from 6'3" and up, and those of us who've sat in a completed Cozy report pretty much the same thing; it's a tight fit, but tolerable. Beats the heck out of a 152, lemme tell 'ya! I'm your size, a bit lighter, and had a good experience in a "stock" Cozy. There are quite a few tried-and-true mods to the interior of the aircraft that can be made to improve dimensions. Adding them together yeilds a surprising amount of space. Changes which alter the exterior dimesions of the aircraft (especially width) have fewer examples and are generally frowned upon, with a few exceptions, such as longer strakes or increasing canopy height. Those two mods alone, however, can yeild significant results. Do a seach for "cabin width" here on the forum, you'll find a lot of info on the subject. These discussions have excellent info to get you started: http://www.canardzone.com/forum/showthread.php?t=393 http://www.canardzone.com/forum/showthread.php?t=372 http://www.canardzone.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1429 http://www.canardzone.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1249 Also, on "that other forum" http://canardaviationforum.dmt.net/showthread.php?t=1793 http://canardaviationforum.dmt.net/showthread.php?t=2150
  5. Try this: 143.84.72.2/doim_denied/PersonalPages.gif
  6. Okay, well, I'm still here, and this is from a .MIL domain, and I can see the pic that Jon posted just fine. So first allow me to fend off this foot that's trying to feed itself to me. Now, I'm not sure exactly why we occaisionally get locked out, but we sometimes do. It's possible that there is a key text string or something in the link that triggers the filter depending on where the link goes (such as personal pages). Like I said, I'm no web admin. It's inconsistent. Some Cozy Builder's web pages I can view, others get locked out because they're "Personal Pages." Some pictures I can see just fine, others lock out the whole website. It's not really something that's going to change my whole life, but it will make accessing this site pretty inconvenient while I'm away. As I said before, we're a pretty small minority here; if the consensus turns out to be pictures are the way to go, we'll cope, I'm sure. I tried to post a copy of what we call "big blue," (Access Denied!) but it doesn't seem to work. Oh well.
  7. I've looked at your strake pictures myself and they displayed just fine. Had the option to display them been enabled I would have been able to see the page, along with the pictures, with no trouble. However, had the picture you posted above been on the page, I would have been locked out of the site completely. I don't know why; I'm no web admin. I do know, however, that I'm not the only person on this forum that has this issue. I understand this is only a very small number of people, but are the pictures that necessary? Interestingly, I don't belong to any forums that DO display the images.
  8. Not to patronize anyone unintentionally, but unless I'm mistaken, 99 dB is (ideally) twice as loud as 96 dB... And I'll admit un-ashamedly that I had to look that up to refresh my memory.
  9. I hate to be negative, but please don't. For some reason, the filters at DOIM frequently deny access to sites with that kind of content, as evidenced by the fact I can't see the picture that mpafleur just linked. There's a good chance over the next year that my sole internet access could come through a NIPR.MIL domain, meaning I, for one, would be SOL. Most folks won't have this problem, but making this move could potentially lock a few of us completely out of the forum. Forcing a link to each picture the way we do now, while inconvenient for some, speeds up the load times for those on dial-up, and will probably keep overall bandwidth requirements on the site a little lower as well (less $$ for whomever maintains it). Allowing the pictures is simply not necessary. It's a small matter to click on the link to see the picture. Just a thought.
  10. Somehow, I have a hard time imagining any problems with horny teenagers, especially if the event is available as a link only from within this forum, and by those who have registered a user name. I can think of few things that I would have found, as a teenager, less appealing than a bunch of "old farts" talking about Epoxy allergies or the compression properties of BID used with MGS 285...
  11. I believe last night's experment proved pretty conclusively that we have enough interest and membership to make a chat room worthwhile. There are many uses for that type of intereaction, not just limited to goofing around. There was a short discussion on the Yahoo chat client about the potential uses of videoconferencing, though it might be beyond the scope of some of the free clients that would be available for this forum. Would it be possible to include a simple link somewhere that triggers a 3rd Party chat program, such as Messenger or Netmeeting? AOL Instant Messenger is capable of triggering a NetMeeting session amongst multiple users, drawing them all to the same connection (whoever initiated the session). It's a safe bet, I think, that 95% of folks here are using Windows based software, which typically has this functionality built-in; no downloads required, which scared a couple folks away last night. There's also a function at the toolbar of my Internet Explorer titled "discuss." I've never used this before,so I'm not sure what it does, but I suspect it might be yet another form of chat software. In the end, though, I believe simplest method would be to set up a chat room in Yahoo with a password available on this forum to keep out the bots. You know, keep it simple? Just a thought.
  12. I said this in an earlier post, for those of you not following this thread. A little bird whipered in my ear, and I took another look at the AS&S site. I now see a breakdown of kits, parts, and prices that I didn't see before. Either I simply missed it and didn't see it before, or it was added very recently. I suspect the latter. Either way, this is an encouraging sign, IMHO, that AS&S is truly making an effort here. Just a thought.
  13. Talk to John Slade, and read his website. He's perhaps the only "authority" so far on Rotary installations for the MkIV, since he's closest to flying, and certainly the strongest proponent. I, too, am strongly considering the Mazda installation, and have been paying very close attention to his progress. Don't make the mistake, however, of letting your engine decision delay the start of the building process. It's going take a year or two of real progress on your airframe, at the soonest, before you need to seriously consider your power options. Something can easily change by then, and there will be much more information available on the success of the Mazda in a Cozy IV.
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