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PIc 1- Be careful not to encapsulate dripping blood in your layups- especially the 'confidence' layup, because while everything looks fine to you, it kinda backfires when others are trying to feel confident...IT does however allow you to truthfully claim you have put your blood and sweat into this project. Pic 2- Wha?????? Did you find one of those Australian blue banana slugs, and immortalize it in a fiberglass cocoon? Or is that an American version of a boomerang [those dumb Americans]. Whatever it is??...keep it to yourself. Pic 3- Ah, here we see you as you threaten the cameraman...and me, after my pithy remarks. Addendum: Yea, put something soft down nearing your part corners and in the center before you put your hard weights on it or you'll get ridges in your layup where the hard edges rest. Oh- yea, be sure and put peelply and plastic under your spots where the soft covered weights are sitting- looks better when the fuzz isn't stuck in the layup. Or if you've got some sand in sealable plastic baggies- those make great weights. I use soft scuba weights in baggies. The spots of peelply under your plastic spots keep shiney glossy areas from happening when there is just plastic attached to the layup and the plastic draws the epoxy up against itself. It is really great to see you working after all of your angst. Congradulations!!

RSR- You getting to be schmaaaart cookie. Whatever you change will change more than you think. No problemo, if one doesn't mind the time.

"Sherman set the wayback machine"...that is too dang funny...blew a non-fat milk snort on that one. Thanx for bringing reality to the Deltahock time-line you three. Wish it wern't so. I think one thing that realy hacks me off is that Theilert [if they actually get things sorted out] won't sell to Cozy experimentals, but will to Vans..that 250hp/or 300hp unit would be Cozy-groovy with FADEC. Hey, how does the Continental FADEC work anyway?...Good?

Doctor Pepper alert..do not read while drinking.. Just what IS the REAL timeline on the [cue the fancy dramatic music and bleating kazzo music] Deltahock? It is actually alive, unlike the Iodine Vaporware. How long has it been promised, and is it really just around the bend?

I hesitate. But after being involved in the train wreck obliquely I will say that it was tasty and nice, until...and it is sad. But Remi is right to just let the guy who claimed all the success, just take care of it all next year. Said fellow, "the guy", felt HE was the key element... then he can figure it out without guys like Steve Harmons 45 dollars of potato salad. [steve didn't snivel- didn't say anything, except under his breath to the lady who he had to arrange to make it for him at the corner diner. He just took it on the chin... and later was helped a little bit by some of us -after he muttered what it was going to cost him to live up to his commitment] Anyway, I am sure all who contributed felt okay until the moment of truth regarding the credit for a nice RR & the commandeering of the donations... by the self appointed Pumba, and that is where the problem lies. If next year the call goes out for food assistance I hope he has the good wits to handle it with a bit more tact and diplomacy. [and I'm sure folks who are flyin' on commercial aircraft will not be offering to provide 15 pounds of potato salad next year etc-as theres not a Costco in sight of the county for reasonable procurement of mass quantities, so says Beldar].

Whoaa. Waiter and TMann-You guys are in a different camp. All began from a guy who has just started taking over a tired old project and made a comment that is ridiculous statistically.[which is why I asked the question anyways] You all are arguing over now over wearing a chute or not....or asking your passenger to wear them. The vocal very cool :\Longeze fighter guys want to, and the vocal Cozy guyz posting don't. Jason makes a lot of sense about asking everybody to don chutes before they get in the airplane...if you're are a regular guy. I know most of us are. If most of us told our wives we expected everybody to wear chutes- I'm sure most of us would not find anywhere near the support for our building bug or flying bug. I really think thats a point. If you want to be Maverick and Iceman and goosestep around the ramp..cooool. We will be happy to give you wide berth as you slick back your hair and make your way to your Ninja 1000's.=] There is something for everybody here and for the 1%'ers who want to wear a chute....its groovy. I think the majority of us are not with it there. And by the way...us fat guys look silly in tight Airforce style flightsuits- so I'm saying all of this VERY tounge in cheek, because I wish I really could be like you guyz. I could get good at goosestepping, if I practiced I think.=] And the retracts definately do help the 'fighter aircraft' look. Those have to be a part of the whole scenario.

Do we have a statistical record somewhere of the accounts where Cozy/EZe pilots have needed to 'hit the silk' due to an inflight necessity?

In honor of one of my favorite movies...I am posting a photo of me in my Cozy whist having a good yuk at a joke popped by my wife. I was doing a trial canopy fit and I believe I will need a small modification to the canopy. Or maybe I will just raise it a bit more. Of course I will have no problem with the new blended wiglet, er winglet modification as I am fully equipped with the proper template for said 7-11 degree 'cone'.

I think, given your level of insertion in everything cozy-wise, you are pretty savvy as to John's exact progress and lack of attendance. Call a spade a spade. It was a dig. I'm not an advocate of Johns engine choice, but here I am standing up for him. Forgetit.

You know I just got so involved in shooting chaff outta my aft end in John S.'s behalf that I just sounded righteous. Not so. No short-fuse I assure you, just making an lobservation over the wall. It really was more of a fuzzy grenade than an edgy one. If I was WAY outta line...I apologize. I just thought Remi made a decent suggestion to try and lure JohnS. out of his nest...and it was met with a cold shot. Hang me. If theres an element of truth there somewhere...hmmmm?

With all possible doo doo respect, John M... John S. has a plane that DOES fly...for whatever cock-o-maimie reason it may not like flights several miles beyond its home base, but it IS flying. I would be careful where that loaded finger of yours is pointed. According to your website, you unfortunately won't be able to make that claim until the year 2034. That can't be real..tell us again it ain't really so. For some-Having current hours, or, "time in type"...should mean less time on keyboard type...and more in the epoxy 'type'. Jus' kiddin'. hmmmmm? [there should be a drumming fingers icon listed]

Sorry Satch, I think I was channeling his spirit. There was this insistent mantra going on in my head like a thrumming noise to "go wider, Wider, WIDER, but I didn't post that. ....I shook my head several times and refused to type "move back the mains" and put blended winglets on it. It was quite a battle of wits...and Dam, now I've got a lightning shaped scar on my forehead to try and explain to my wife. Yow... Yea, and It did kinda look like a whaleshark. Those guys that came up with the 'skyshark' a few years ago must have put a twist on that.

What luck...I found just the airframe for you on a European homebuilders website. Those rascally Euro-guys, keepin' all the good stuff to themselves. Plenty of room for any engine desired and plenty of fuel stowage for those long flights. Its only drawback is it appears to be a two place, but that view from up above must rival the Cozy.

I'm sure there are guys that could sit around your campfire and swat a few flies. If you're here to speak tho, and not to hear...about canards, you are inviting the wrong Indians. In fact you're in the wrong camp. [sounds of muffled rummaging under the deer hides...] Ugg. Wheres that dusty peace-pipe Tonto? Dicks gonna need it for the RV Tribe.....

I challenge the Tin riveters to correct a fuselage in anywhere near the time you will have into this. Its a lot of work, but a whole different ballgame than our Tin preferring EAA fellows. Actually apples and oranges. BTW- Did you say this guy was a mechanic?

Your point is acknowledged..even if it is covered with hair.=] Mine is covered by my before mentioned approved EAA attire. Just in my previous story, my mouse sized point was...It's just not prudent to be planning your wedding night after you just met the lady...'speshally if as a noob, one figuratively looks like Don Knotts or Marty Feldman. You be the judge. I personally am my own worse critic. The girrrls might chime in here.[about the planning thing only plz=] Oh...And if I fly without pants, it may be considered a crime...Jerry has been accused of that with his "pressed ham incident", and it is documented. So personally I will be considering pants as PROPer first flight attire. Ahem.

Newbie- not prenoobie experience. After I had justfirst started building and went to an accomplished [finished] builders hanger with another builder that was his friend, this happened to mawah. This flyer didn't know me from Adam but was nice enough to open his hanger and show me his craft. Ted [my friend] had already seen it several times. I was really impressed with his wheelpants. Cookie's[Jay's] plane was very nice. Lots of nice work... but I was fixated in my recent websearching about wheelpants- and like Scrat and his prehistoric acorn...low and behold at the ends of these gear hoops....AHHH, HERE WERE some DANDIES! Many pleasantries were exchanged, and and finally I began asking Cookie all about the process he had gone through to custom build these pants of his. Time went by in the exchange and while he was a nice guy and all...he finally asked at what stage I was at in my build. I replied. He frustratingly, constipatingly screwed up a facial expression that would put Red Skelton to shame, with greattttt restraint, said in his Norwegian accent, "Vy are you so concerned about dees NOW...ask me about dees if you finish your aeroplane". The pregnant pause. The "if" was not lost on me, as it hung in the air like an unanswered challenge to my new undertaking. Worrying about the prop now is kinda about like those rascal wheelpants. Talk about it after you've spent 5-10years building something to hang it on. At least thats what the look was all about in that Cozy flyers eyes that evening in Hollister. I should say that by the end of our get together Jay offered to glass me up a set of wheelpants from his molds, when I finally needed them. Unsaid and unseen though still hangs the "if" over me, like a ghost of all the stalled and unfinished builders with projects they are going to "start working again on that thing next week". Pray for me. I don't wanna stop wanting to finish. Someday I want the scarlett -IF- washed off my cute little EAA baseball cap I like to wear. Do you?

rsrguy....Oh yeaaa, rsr..that must be a Porsche thing you're pedaling. BTW-Thanks for the PM. I didn't put a smiley in my post, but I'm pleased you caught the spirit of it. Particularly the size of your azz. She would be able to verify and quantify. These birds fetch some decent $ if they are well done. Actually, they're a fat-cat bargain compared to a stress ridden 1973 Cesspool 172 for the same $....therefore of great value to the builder- as an aircraft, but not as a return on investment.=[ Keep pedaling=]

Yea..pretty touchy. It was evident to me Big Steve[one of the ncest guys you'll ever meet] was refering to HIS possible 'tread jacking'comment.[and yea he slipped on the keyborad and misstyped the 'h'. Geesh. To me your question is quite telling. But what the heck. I'm just observing. If you are wondering about what they sell for...maybe you aren't really the type that is going to be able to finish this kind of commitment. If your a "danger-dan -dude", just go buy a big policy and you and she need not worry about the pittance she gets out of whatever level of progress you made it too before leaving the party. Unless the plane is finished they don't bring much. I doubt you'll get you materials cost back. You barely have time to work a job, have a quality relationship, help your neighbors, AND REALLY make progress on the airplane. Cut out all the other 'dangerous' farting around, you don't have time for it. Ask anybody whose seriously building. Just build the airplane and be one of the 20% or less that actually have done it...and minimize all the rest of the risks in your life, or what time you will have spent building will go up in smoke along with your skinny a$$ if you check out. Its a matter of priorities. I'm sure she'd rather have you here. Poor assumption? My jaded .02

Should've typed Hyperbowle [missing the acccent mark on my keyboard] Sorry to say, I am College educated as well. G'figure.

The sandblasting idea may be a good one. Good idea to use the spent media sand as shot bags. I use soft scuba weights. Theres some bright minds here. Theres also a lot of Hyperbola. The gas tanks in the wheel pants were particularly special.

...For about 2-1/2 years.Yea, I am building a cozy MarkIv- I am finished with my controls and starting to install my canopy and turtleback- so I've sanded a little bit.

Big Steve, You make too much sense. Thats been working for me too. Big thumbs up for techniques for us overweight builders. If you don't need to lose ten pounds then you can try some super whiz-bang method. A couple thousand Rutan birds been flying for years using the old 36 grit elbow effort up there.

May I ask why all these mental gymnastics? One out of two passengers, [let alone if you had 3 or 4 traveling] is going to have to "go" before the 5-6 hours of a typical long distance leg....what the heck is this capability for. TransAtlantic flights? Oh yea, I forgot that was what it ... well, if you can ferry a 182 to Europe at 110kts and stop a lot due to capacity...why can't a stock Cozy? Buld the plane first and then worry about its 'limitations'. Most builders have way more limitations than this stock airplane. [From what I gather]

Theres something iffy possibly, about a design, with regards to longevity, that isn't suitable for a smooth running six cylinder Lycombing..but is for a car engine... MT's tried on Lycombings and not robust...default to auto engine aero conversions. Flame on.