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Y?ou BELIEVE what you posted? Gregs jet is NOT the jet that is being created in that workshop. Everybody with warm blood knows about Gregs jet. This ISN'T it. Building 4 airframes from an untested airframe seems hardly prudent. YMWV.

If you have 4 jets under construction then do you have some videos of the proof of concept prototype aircraft flying, that you can post? It would be interesting to see some photos of the finished aircraft as well. Thanks.

i do want to post an addendum. ...and state that what the guy has built looks really exciting and would love to to see it fly successfully. This is what I thought the RRL Racers should have looked like instead of those bulbous arszed humpty dumpty creations they came up with. The pic of the mocking up of the rear stabilizer supports is pretty scary...I dont care how many plies you plied in with. But a great canopy to tail sweep, and forebody. Prove the gear and airframe, put a massive fuel cell in it and, wah Lah, theres a cool single-seat bullitt for the blue sky!!!

The gear swinging forward is interesting. The funky spindly looking nature of it and its seeming to be without shock absorption, is not. Maybe this is just a display type creation. Those gear do not look capable of handling the substantial forces generated.

You cagey rascal. ..and here I'd gone an thought I'd missed a major RG manufacturer during the past years...and this one doesnt even use forms of articulation, just really soft tires. Nobody has answered this poor bounders question about these winglets yet. I dont see rudders cut out yet, and they appear to be floating, or attached to the aluminum sawhorse...maybe hes just toying with the viewers.

Well, it is pretty cool looking, but I think It'd be a bit iffy that the USN will let him land on the Nimitz...maybe the Numbnutz...but not the Nimitz... Gotta be a different answer to my question.

Not just the autoclaves are hugely expensive. I was at Dave R's UAV-Berkut shop last year and he pointed to a 5 gallon of caulking adhesive used to mate all finished pieces of prepreged parts together and said. "That can of magic costs 5 grand, pretty cool huh?" I looked over at the all black carbon Berkut on sawhorses and whistled. Just a few minutes before we had forced the prepreg into a mold for one of the ancillary nose bulkheads and bagged it and vacced it to its pressure hold condition. Then walked it over to the 14 foot long heat box. No autoclave, just a highheat cure. MY impression was, this was a mighty "state of the art"...read EXPENSIVE way to build an airplane. Just the TIME[i.e.manhours]to create the molds for everything was enormous Dave said. So this/your thread transferring to an actual EZE animal of some sort will be interesting to see down the timeline. With your expertise, I hope you actually end up with something several years down the road and dont give up.

..and that will ACTUALLY fly. As for the gear. The front gear do not appear to acticulate, just a pipe and a right angle axle with a little diagonal brace,no trailing linkage. Maybe they are fabbing that separatly and are waiting to install. Just asking but why would a guy need long spindly gear for a jet? I can see it for prop clearance, but dont understand why its looks so long here? TMann who makes the BU2000...sounds like hairy potterz quidich broom? Seriously- never heard of that...so my ignorance is so full here, it's splashing out of my cup.

Its that kinda single splooge crap that is chit-canning our homebuilding amateur-built catagory with the EAA. It really rankles me.

Be nice to see some flight photos or video.

It would be kinda interesting to have a poll listed for those BUILDING a LEZ or Cozy or Velo to list what style of layup they are USING to build their actual plane...or DID BUILD their Rutan derivative from. I havent seen a post for a very very long time by John Matcho, so if you are here in the shadows and think it might be useful, maybe you could set it up. I think it would be most appropriate for Builders to list what they are DOING, not guys just favoring one or the other. Building one of these planes is a big task, and maybe it would make a difference to somebody. Reflecting on my personal patience level, if I had thought I had to Vac-bag to build, I dont know if I wouldve felt I could commit. YMMV.

well, it taxi's...does it fly? looks tasty.=)

Very funny Lynn...wery wery funny. I refute!! A 56 chevy with chrome bumpers is not that fast!! But to ask the question again, can the pushrod tubes be polished out?

A fellow builder asked me, and I just got a phone quote for chroming the valve covers for 38.00 each and the same per pushrod tube. Can the pushrod tubes be simply buffed out to a chrome-like appearance? Inquiring minds want to know....

New Retracts on the lawn mower... now thats gonna be something. Wishing you well in your endeavors, Waiter. :brocolli:

There are hundreds of Eze/Cozy Urethane noses FLYING out there FOR YEARS....without one complaint about what their noses are made of. YMMV. I really enjoyed sculpting the urethane, and with agood micro coat prior to glassing, felt/feel it matches the design need.

Fantastic looking nose!! Very untentpeg like. The extra 4 inches is sure great to play with and really makes quite a difference.

Sweet mother of mercy, you're on a roll.

No TMann, that was Waiter with the clones...even Jack wouldnt tell me what he's got, and I even worked in his shop for two 3 day stints with him. That rascal Jack keeps all the juicy secrets to himself...and he just emailed me the other day and said the whole airplane is blocked out and most of it final primer sealed and ready to fly. Dang, he must be Bionic.

Kraig...That is one BEEE-u-Ti-fulll shnoz! When you get the top on that shaped out, it is going to be sooooo snarky. Go baby..GO!! BTW, to my understanding Featherlight never did a website. It's a phone call thing with them.

Amazing they still haven't raised their prices in a couple of years. I bought a turtleback, rear cowl set and nose strut and box back in late 2005 and the prices were the same!!

In fairness we should say that Jack did buy somebodies ERacer tub. [big whoopin deal because he did cut off the nose from the tub, rebuilt it to his liking it longer, built up a custom Lancair canopy and fitted a turtleback to that and etc etc, ad infinitum. Yea, Jack "MOVES right along" as he is fond of saying...and this is a guy with a full time job with the city of Auroras management. Everybody who moans about not enough energy etc, and flops each night for TV in a Barcalounger...could take a lesson from this 65+ year old. I know I have. Oh, and BTW, he is routinely having to have surgical pinpoint laser procedures on his spine for terrible back pain, as well. Jack, is Jack...and he is a doer, not a talker. My hats off to him. If you liked Jacks previous ERacer Extreme...this next plane is going to wiggle folks socks up and down their shins even when its just sitting on the ramp.

Could you translate the pounds of 'glass into yards of glass? Might help a buyer. Also what width are the rolls? Best to you. Great price offer on the plans. Somebody will snatch them up.

Thanks Waiter.