zolotiyeruki

On 6/4/2024 at 7:32 PM, zolotiyeruki said:

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1026448509084991/

Looks like it's available on eBay as well: https://www.ebay.com/itm/266839261280

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1026448509084991/

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FINISHED LONGEZ PROJECT 4SALE • $20,000 • AVAILABLE FOR SALE • Barn find, completely finished no N-number,no logs,ready for test flights,engine IO320,EMAIL ONLY. • Contact Lent Can , Friend of Owner - located North Adams, MA 01247 United States • Posted June 3, 2024

Marc, do you have links to the writings of Gary Hertzler and Klaus Savier?  I'd love to read up on what they did.

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COZY 3 PROJECT • $6,000 • ACCEPTING OFFERS • Cozy 3 project. Includes wings , canard. No engine(have one sold separately) . It was bought as a project without no logs in 2018. I have a log book with the work I have done including landing gear, canard and firewall. • Contact Harry Olar , Owner - located North Royalton, OH 44133 United States • Telephone: ---------- • Posted June 2, 2024 • 

$6k for a mostly-complete airframe seems like a pretty good deal.

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LONG-EZ COMPLETE • $35,000 • FOR SALE • N42WF O-235 J2A Lycoming Lightspeed Plasma III ignition 1682 hrs TT Electric NG Escort 2 navcom XPDR Catto 3-blade composite prop Custom nylon cover New upholstery This aircraft was built by a corporate pilot. Owner has previously built same model, a trophy winner. Trailer available for transport • Contact William French , Owner - located Lisbon, NH 03585 United States •Posted June 2, 2024

I have no personal experience, but I can pass on a few things I've heard:

1) Lean the engine in cruise
2) There are a few things you can do to decrease drag. I seem to recall Mike Melville built a custom oil pan so that he could make a more streamlined lower cowl.  Nose gear door, main gear hoop fairings, and good wheel pants will help.  Optimizing cooling can help as well.  The design is pretty clean in the base case, though.
3) Make sure the airplane is built clean, light, simple, and is rigged as perfectly as you can.
4) Fly at a more rearward CG
5) Fly high

https://www.facebook.com/groups/25741482604/?multi_permalinks=10160652627137605

https://www.homebuiltairplanes.com/forums/threads/long-ez-project-for-sale.49874/

This aircraft was built in 1985 and has 648 hours on the Hobbs meter. The engine was removed and it sat for long enough for the registration and certification to expire. Repairs made since include:
 

Please see the equipment list below for further information. Located in Santa Fe, NM
Asking $18,000 OBO

Pictures, logbooks and an equipment list can be seen here:
 

Questions, comments, or offers - contact Bill directly at:

bill.schein@gmail.com
(505) 469-1399

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COZY MKIV N244CZ • $57,000 • AVAILABLE FOR SALE • Cozy 4 fresh, deep and comprehensive restoration and CI. Reply to this ad for pictures and details. • Contact Izzy Briggs - BLACKSKY COMPOSITES , Owner - located Concord, NH 03301 United States • Telephone: ---------- • BUSINESS CARD •  Posted May 17, 2024

The full Build Log for that Cozy is here: https://www.cozy.simpex.com/

You can see some great photos of the main gear mounting design for the Cozy MK IV here:https://www.cozy.simpex.com/Ch09_03.html

On 5/2/2024 at 2:10 PM, zolotiyeruki said:

 

This Cozy project has a new listing on Barnstormers: https://www.barnstormers.com/classified-1907543-COZY-MK-IV-Project.html and the price has dropped to $10k

I think @Kent Ashton is using a Cozy gear hoop on his Long-EZ

https://jxn.craigslist.org/avo/d/horton-rutan-varieze-project/7735429888.html

(more pictures in the listing)

Varieze Project purchased from an estate and there are no logs. Fuselage kept undercover in garage, wings, canard, etc., kept in dark (ie no sunlight), dry basement. Fuselage is on wheels but still needs work. Wings, winglets and canard are glassed. Have canopy but no engine. Have plans, templates and extra pieces (extra set of wing connect hardware, wheels, front strut, misc hardware). No instruments or engine. I do have pieces of a Continental C-85 for $2000 (2 cases, crank, jugs, misc). There is still more than 51% to complete. It’s a good base to start from.

I have too many projects and will never get to this. Please E-mail due to amount of scammers texting. I will not ship and will need cash upon pickup due to the scammers out there. I do not need help selling, either.

If you can make it to Airventure in July, you'll be able to try a Long-EZ on for size, along with just about any other plane you can imagine.

I'd recommend you also join the various Facebook Groups and email lists--there's an absolute wealth of information there!

15 hours ago, Aclouston said:

Wow! This could be the one. Can you tell for which engine the cowl is for?

The strakes are prefab units right?

Yes, those strakes are prefabbed.

This is a repost, but I think it's a price drop:  Most of the fiberglass work done on an Long-EZ for $3k.  That said, you'd probably want to build a new canard (the included one is a GU), and some of the layups look....wavy?

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LONG-EZ PROJECT • $3,000 • PROJECT FOR SALE • GU canard, Task Strakes, Plans, Cleveland Brakes. Canopy was done with West Systems, bubble is green tinted. $5000 located in East Tennessee. • Contact Mac McEntire , Owner - located Kingsport, TN 37660 United States • Telephone: ---------- • Posted May 11, 2024 

 

Why is the foam bonded to the glass with micro instead of flox?  Because (at least the way I've heard it), between fiberglass, micro, flox, and foam, the foam is the weakest link.  Replacing micro with flox would add weight (albeit not a ton) but the structure would be no stronger.  In other words, whether you bond it with micro or bond it with flox, the foam will fail before anything else.

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Huge opportunity to save many thousands of dollars and years and years of building!

For sale: My Aerocanard SX (mold built Cozy MK IV with larger rear seat), Serial # 50 unfinished, unregistered kit.

It is Close to painting stage.

Fully IFR with electric actuating and self-locking FHC, electric trim and electric auto-retract landing brake. Wings/canard/ spar by Oeleman. Wilhelmson Electric nose gear, liquid (water or oil) cabin heat.

This project is currently set up for a converted Mazda Renesis rotary engine utilizing Real World PRSU and electronics with a C/S 3 blade Magnum Ivoprop. Being composite it can be somewhat easily converted to a powerplant with cylinders. If so, it will need a new cowl.

I am selling it with or without the engine, engine mount, prop, engine electronics fuel pumps and cooling/oil system.

It is located in my heated hanger at ENW, (Kenosha Wisconsin) Where I was building it. (never below 50* since birth.)

Pix and stats available if interested

Interested please contact me at 312/848-5755—lets talk!

Gee whiz, it's a busy day for projects.  This one's a mostly-complete airframe for $5k:

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I have a longeze project for sale for what i have into it in utah 5000$ . This is a 90% complete 90% to go . Controls hooked up primed and partially painted , electric gear , strobes and nav installed engine mount , brakes all hooked up cowls , exhaust . Needs instruments , more paint , engine . Not ronz canard . No build logs but does have plans . I bought this and subsequently bought a registered varieze that needs a new engine and decided with other issues i have no time for it . Update ! Some people are panicking because they think the interior fuselage is exposed blue foam . Its not look at the photos its glassed properly and painted blue !