For those of you not on either the COZY mailing list or the canard-aviators mailing list, I posted the following message yesterday. I would appreciate email responses, rather than only posting here - it's very hard to integrate these web based messages with the emails that I save. Feel free to post here to to engender discussion, but if you've got feedback or suggestions that you'd really like me to take into account, email will ensure that I pay attention.
Folks:
I know it's early to start thinking about OSH this year, but I just received the "COZY Forum" signup sheet from the EAA and need to get it in to them within the next couple of weeks to arrange for the forum (and tell them the name and topic).
I seem to have become the de-facto owner of this forum, since Nat's not doing it any more and ACS (owner of the COZY plans) doesn't really have anything to contribute to the forum.
I think that it would be good to rename it from the "COZY" Forum to the "COZY / RAF Derivative Canard" Forum, and open the floor to the whole canard community, so that we ALL can benefit from the information transfer.
With that in mind, I'd like to get feedback on a number of areas:
1) Is this renaming / opening up of the forum a good thing?
2) What COZY related topics / presentations / issues / should we
discuss?
3) What non-COZY related topics should we discuss?
4) Does anyone else have a presentation they'd like to make at the
forum? (10 - 15 minutes or so).
a) Steve Wright might talk about his "Stagger-EZ"
b) Terry Schubert could talk about the CSA
c) Other (videos, etc.)?
5) I will give some form of the standard COZY spiel, and probably
talk about the propeller loss and repairs as well (showing how
sturdy and easy to fix these planes are to newbies).
So, any and all ideas are welcome - we had over 100 folks at the forum last year and ran out of time. I'd like to keep this as a vibrant, useful forum for the whole canard community, so speak up, and I'll see what I can put together.