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The speed brake dose not make the nose go down. All it dose is make your approach steeper, by helping to slow the plane down. You will not notice any trim change When extended.

Just a thought. After being in the repair busness for over 30 years. The standing joke was to send a kickback to the guy who invented sand blasting. It brought a lot of work to us for bearing replacement. Also Arc welding on any object with bearings in them. I seems no matter how carful you are with the ground placement. The path of least restance seems to be through the bearings.

This is just trying to help prevent it from happening on turbo #2. Jon: After looking at the picture on your web page. I felt I had to write this. I have seen this before.

There is a guy out in California. Kevin Webster 209-518-4578 wants to sell his Infinity retracts. He said he paid 5K and to make him an offer.

Wait till you start flying around the country. Almost always someone will come up and ask. Is this the kind of plane John Denver got killed in. Or tell their buddy. Thats the kind of plane J.D. got killed in.

IT'S A BAD RAP!!!!!

As for this crash. It hit hard enough to wipe out the mains. Thats HARD.

I should have added. A pipe talley tape, or plumbers tape is in tenths of a foot. So what you are saying is right. But a plumbers tape is not the one to use for building airplanes. Tenths of an inch tape the right one. I know where you are comming from. When I first broke out in the patch. That damn talley tape ate my lunch. I did provide hummer for the old guys though.

What you are refering to is a pipe talley tape. When I worked in the Oil Field we used this for measureing drill pipe and casing. This is not the tape engineers use to build airplanes. They use 10ths of an inch.

First off I understand an empty Cozy weighs as much as a full Long-EZ. I have taken off and also landed in 1500 feet with a 170 lb passanger, Light head wind (5 mph), and 12 gallons of gas. Steep approaches. Hard surface. I have done it. I don't like it, and would not make a practice of it. Too hard on the PIC,brakes,sphyncter. I'm just saying it can be done. I use to live at D-15 Lake Isabella Airpark. Look it up and you will see where I built and learned to fly my Long in and out of. Where I live now the runway is 4000 feet and standard approach. I need no braking for landing or rollout. Life is good.

If I understand your question right. 1 and 1/2 inches. Is 1.50 not 1 and 3/4. To make it simple.

1/32 of an inch is .03125 thousands of an inch. 1/2 inch = 16/32 {16X.03125=.500}

I am not knocking it! In fact. I have had my old retract strip the teeth by only half extending the gear to move my plane. EZ fix. The other time when after landing on bumpy taxeway the crank backed off "not locked down" Stripped again. Unknown to me at the time I was being vidio taped. I got to watch it again, and again at the next EAA chapter meeting. "RED FACE" I now highly recomend the EZ-Noselift. If you have to move your plane solo or any other reason. BTW The Strong pitch trim uses a electric screw driver motor head. I also recomend this upgrade. Like starten a Jap bike. JUST PUSH THE BUTTON!

PS: used Ken brock Nose retract with shock strut, and Pitch trim Hardware for sale. He He.

100% correct. The 200 mph stuff min.

By the looks of gear. It would not have mattered if the nose gear was welded in the down position. As for the makita. I have seen a lot worse that people market and sell for a lot more than the price of a Makita drill. The pictures show the nose gear was down. This poor man is lucky the plane took the worst of it. I think this should be taken as to the strength of the plane, and its ability to keep the people inside alive. My hart goese out to him for his loss. I bet he wishes the people with the cameras would just go away and leave him alone.

CNCDOC,

It took some looking but I found the answer to your question. Read Canard Pusher #23, page 2. Long-EZ the whole story. Burt explains why He put on lower winglets and a lot more stuff.

I think I remember Burt explaining the lower winglets prevent the drage off the end of the wings that goes with angled wings. As for the upper winglets. They are for stability. Way back when. The prototype Longez had no rudders on the winglets. It used a front mounted rudder under the rudder pedels up front. it was replaced early on with little rudders on the winglets about 8"X 8". After that the Hi performance rudders. The Defiant used the front mounted rudder for quite some time. What ever you deside to do with your bird is no skin off my nose. and God willing not yours.

This comment Is just me. Vortalons were first put on the Variez. They worked great for them. became Mandatory change. Then they were tried on the Long-EZ. A little better slow flight quality. It was up to the builder to use them. Later it became mandatory. Personaly I have noticed no change in slow flight control. But I have them. One thing I changed that did make an improvement, was vortex generators on my GU canard. They slowed my landing speed by 8 knots, and I lost no speed. My canard never lost lift in the rain even without them.Have fun building, and all your layups be perfict.

Have you guys read all the Canard Pusher, CSA, and Cozy news letters? If not it would be in your best intrest to do so. A lot of the questions posted here would be answered. Also if you had read Tom Staggs artical on trailing edge fences (lots of pics, and data) on his Long-EZ "same wing as a Cozy" you would have found out they work good on Variez wings but have little effect on Long-EZ wings. The lower winglets are worth putting on to protect the wings from getting damaged by hi insedent landings, cross wind tip. And when your empty plane tips over backward because of inexperianced help. Please don't jump all over me. I just want to help.

Republic sea bee has a sliding battery tray to keep plane in CG depending on passingers.

I was wondering. If a Cozy pilot flying solo point "A" flys someplace, and picks up a friend point "B", leaves his ballast there. Flys friend to point "C", and drops him off. Where or how does he get ballast to continue his flight solo?

Just thinking.

Dust, Do you have a good phone number for Wentworth? 1-800-4wentworth, and 612-722-0065 are no longer in service.

Marble mountain. 69 thru 71. MAG 56. Heavy Junk.

Please except my most humble apology to all it offended fo my P.S. post. It was most inapproiate.

Jo-z, First please don't take this wrong. Paint jobs like this are COOL. And what you do on yours is Just fine with me. Paint weighs around 8 to 10 pounds per gallon. (depending on metal flake, etc.) To get the kind of finish in the pics take a lot of paint. I talked to one builder of a show plane, and he told me he needed 12 gallons of paint to get the results. Thats around 100 pounds of paint. At 10,000 ft and 200 mph even a plane in only primer in and out looks GREAT. Lord GOD Rutan says. Keep it light,simple,safe. I wish you GOD speed on your project, and have a lot of fun too.

P.S. When all my peers went to Woodstock. I joined the Marine Corps. To kill bad people to keep our country safe so the hippies could make love. Killem all, and let god sort em out. Peace brother;)

JO-z, I think you gotta stop going to the Reservation and eatin those cactus buttons, and smoking those left handed cigarettes.

Joe I used canvas duck. Reasons, Easy to remove and clean. Lite. My hind end can't see. When flying I have better things to do than admire what I'm sitting on. As for wiping your feet. It looks good on paper. When you start flying next year you will know what I mean.

Now get out to the shop! You got work to do!

OOPS! Sorry, I don't do that anymore.

Joe, since you are a look ahead kinda guy. You might want to consider the seat coushions. You have to step on them to get in and out of the plane. I saw on your jpeg you are using the standard nose gear. That makes the front seat even more of a dirt trap. one more tip. Never leave the canopy open around big dogs. They think the cockpit is a tire or tree. Been there done that.

IMHO. wait until you are ready. in other worde until you are almost done with the build. Stuff changes so fast. By the time you are ready for them they could be just a chip you drink.

I got my Sticky Stuff dispencer in 1983. It still works. No it is not for sale. I have built 2 Long-ez's with it, and a lot of stuff for other people. I sugest that you clean it every 2 or 3 years.

Jim, suit yourself thats cool. HE HE.

I do question your math. $200 for liner Jacket only, $60 socks, They are not glued on. You can take them off. Control $70 to turn the heat down down. full power not needed. $ 45 for Hot grip + control. to turn it down too. Total $375 + 2 for copilot $750. I think my nose lift with AEX was around $1400. Sorta close.

PS. B 29's Did not fly out of Iwo Jima. It was Fighter escourts there. It was an emergincy landing alternet. FYI. My father Flew with the 78th fighter squadron, based there.