tfulwider

San Diego Craigslist:

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Long Ez project for sale. Owner/Builder retired military Pilot and A&P. Airframe with no Engine. Also no instruments

$10,000 FIRM PRICE

I am a friend of the seller and posting this
ad for him.

https://losangeles.craigslist.org/wst/avo/d/el-cajon-long-ez-project/7734962837.html

If you follow the "seller's" Facebook profile it looks a little sketchy. Doesn't have very many posts and they are all liked by the same five people without comment.

Definitely looks fishy

Looks great!!!

I've had my practice kit for a while and just now getting to the wing.  I was mixing single squirts and then dumping the majority out to work it.  Took a while to cure completely, but was setting up to a gel consistency within 5-10 minutes.

Jon,  thanks for the info on the Permagrit.  Definitely going to have to pick them up!

I laid up the underside of the wing last night to cure overnight.  First off, the West 105 resin with the 206 hardener that ships with the practice kit cures really quickly.  My slurry was tacky before I even finished covering the foam.  The epoxy thickened quickly which made wetting out the glass a little more difficult than I had hoped.  I was in a 75 degree room and used a hair dryer at various points to help it flow.  The layups aren't as nice as I would like and I ended up with a few trapped bubbles of epoxy under the final layer.  Oh well, that's why it's practice!

Today I pulled out the Fein saw with the rotary blade and trimmed the edges.  Worked really well!!  I was able to lay the flat part of the blade on the edge of foam and get a very close cut.  The leading edge trim was a bit tougher and I ended up having to sand it a fair amount.  All in all, very pleased with how it went!  I noticed in Ary Glantz's videos that he would sometimes use a router with a flush trim bit on the edges.  Any advantages or disadvantages with that method?  

Thanks for all of the advice!!

I happened to have gotten my hands on a Fein tool just a few weeks ago. It seems that would have more ability to damage the foam underneath than a razor blade would. I'll try it out and see how it does!

Ok, that makes sense. I was worried that nicking the foam core at the leading edge would be a big no no. Thanks Kent!

I'm going to ask what is probably a simple question to any of the builders out there but I'm stumped.  I have my wing section hot wired and prepped for glassing, but there's one area that concerns me.  I know you're supposed to scissor trim the glass that overhangs after you've wet it out and then knife trim flush to the foam part way through the cure.  I also know that you're supposed to put duct tape halfway down the leading edge so you don't get slurry or epoxy on the top portion to be covered later.  What I don't understand is how you trim up that leading edge.  I'm assuming you knife trim part way through the cure so the weight of the hanging fiberglass holds the layup in place.  But when you knife trim, how do you keep from cutting into the foam core?  

https://nashville.craigslist.org/avo/d/spring-hill-rutan-varieze-project/6977366875.html

Hello Justin!  A good friend of mine lives in Melbourne as well.  Best of luck on your build!

I think I may have mistaken a Republic Seabee for the Skigull.  Sorry about the false hope!

I was watching the Ultralight camera.  Looked like it was landing in the background on 27.  Saw a very similar color scheme/design, but it's possible it wasn't actually the SkiGull

I think I just saw the SkiGull land at Oshkosh on one of the webcams.  Nice!

Anybody know what's happening with Rutan's Skigull?  Since it started flight testing three years ago I can only imagine they found some massive problems that are either taking a long time to fix or aren't worth fixing.  I'd be interested to know which

Saw this one pop up on the Pilots of America forum.  A gentleman that has terminal cancer donated his project to an EAA chapter in Georgia.  Here's his description.  

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Our EAA Chapter had a Long-EZ donated by a gentleman that has terminal cancer. Our job now is to sell it. I'm looking for some idea of its worth. From what we can glean, it hasn't been flown since 1988 or there about. Not entirely sure as to what engine is on it, but it has not been run either. Engine TT is over 2100 hours. Personally, I don't expect we can get much for it at all, just not sure what range it would be in.

Not much to go on but if someone's interested I'm sure I can get the contact info

Very unique!  Looks like a good starting place for a sim cockpit.  I sure wouldn't want to be in the air in it!

I remember seeing this one at Rough River.  Gorgeous airplane!  

Tempest is another really good search option for Craigslist  https://www.searchtempest.com/

Worth half the asking price?  Maybe even less?

https://atlanta.craigslist.org/sat/avo/d/quickee-200/6724863218.html

No logbooks  ?

Man, that one looks like a great place to start a project!

Good ol' Guntersville airport!  I helped out the EAA chapter with their pancake breakfast when I was the CAP.  I definitely need to join the local chapter since I still spend a fair amount of time out there.  My wife and I even got married in the vintage aircraft museum.  Had a Waco and a Stearman as our backdrop! 

There are definitely a few RV's out there.  The fact that they're so common was probably the biggest turn off for me.  I like ramp appeal, and you don't get that by looking like everyone else!  

I've been a Rutan enthusiast since I was a child and saw the 3-2-1 Contact episode about the Voyager.  Aviation has been one of my biggest passions throughout life and I was able to earn my PPL in 2008.  I have built cars since I was young and naturally decided that I needed to build my own airplane.  I had myself convinced that the RV-7 was going to be the one.  (please don't ban me!)  I figured since it was newer, I was comfortable with metal, etc.  My son and I went to Oshkosh in '10 and caught one of Burt Rutan's forums.  Then we caught Dick Rutan's forum.  At that point I decided they were the two coolest guys on earth and I had to build a Long-EZ!  We went back the following year for Burt's tribute and attended everything EZ we could get our hands on.  I attended Rough River a couple of years but always managed to be there when everyone was somewhere else, lol.  

Life has a way of kicking you in the gut at times and I still haven't been able to actually start making airplane parts.  I am working my way through the composite practice handbook though.  I've read the CP's beginning to end at least four times and have of course scoured YouTube for all of the Rutan and Mike Melvill videos I can.  Mike has perched himself at the top of my coolest pilots in the world rankings.  I've put together my plans from the OpenEZ project and marked all of the changes in the CP's.  My wife and I just moved into our new house in Alabama with a shop this year.  I'm starting to put my workspace together and get rid of a bunch of extra junk.  Hopefully within the next year I can start to slowly work my way through the build.