Philg

On 10/4/2023 at 7:27 AM, zolotiyeruki said:

I know @Jon Matcho is working on digitizing, verifying, and making available the Defiant plans in the same manner as the Open-EZ.  I found an electronic copy of the plans minus the templates, which are really important to have printed accurately.  From a couple of conversations I've had, it sounds like building a Defiant is roughly twice the time and cost of building a Long-EZ.  It's pretty darn big for a homebuilt.

That’s a neat project. Hope he is able to complete it. There’s really nothing like the defiant out there in the e/ab world besides the velocity twin, sorta. 
 

I couldn’t scratch build one. too old, no space  

19 hours ago, zolotiyeruki said:

You don't see a Defiant up for sale very often.  Izzy's selling his.

Those are so rare I’m really curious what it’ll go for. Wish I could afford it. 

On 12/6/2008 at 4:37 PM, Marc Zeitlin said:

Almost. It sweeps forward to increase the moment arm to balance the increased moment coefficient of the main wing with the flaps out. The increased moment coefficient causes a nose down pitching moment, even as the lift stays constant (remember, in unaccelerated flight, lift ALWAYS equals weight). To react this nose down moment, you have to either increase the lift of the canard or move it forward.

The front seat weight of the COZY MKIV is determined by one of two things, depending upon which you think is more important:

1) Nat's arbitrary statement that it's 400 lb. based on some notion of how much margin should be maintained if the pilot forgets to remove the ballast when loading the front seat to high weights.

2) The front CG limit. This of course assumes that you pay attention to W&B and put ballast in when needed and remove it when it's not. In MY plane, using this criteria, the front seat weight limit is approximately 460 lb. Since I weigh 155 lb. dripping wet, the limit is higher than I can get to with the largest person that'll fit in the front seat with me.

That being said:

A) Moving the canard forward will move the Aerodynamic Center of the aircraft forward. This means that you'll have to move the CG RANGE forward as well, to ensure stability. If you don't move the front seats forward with the canard, then yes, you'll probably increase the front seat weight limit, at the expense of needing a lot more ballast when flying solo to keep ahead of the rear CG limit. If you do move the front seats forward with the canard (as Chris Esselstyn did in his stretched MKIV) then you'll have very little change to the front seat limit.

B) Enlarging the canard does two things - adds lifting surface area, decreasing the wing loading, and moves the Aerodynamic Center forward (as above). Since nothing's moving (see above), the front seat weight limit will increase, at the expense of needing more ballast when solo since the CG range will have shifted forward.

C) A variable geometry (chord, span, position) canard is clearly the most efficient plan aerodynamically - you can tailor the aerodynamics to the weight/CG of the aircraft as loaded. Good luck with this one from a structural standpoint - it's EXTREMELY complex and failure prone - the complications are not worth it. How many aircraft (out of all the ones out there) use variable sweep/span/chord wings?

<rant on>I really should start charging for this sh*t (huh - can't curse on the forum, eh, Jon?). 14 years of giving it away for free... I can really understand why so many knowledgeable folks choose to stay off of mailing lists and web fora - it turns into a full time job.

Not aimed at you, Patrick. I just can't count the number of times that the same thing has been explained over and over again, with the assumption that the explanation is OWED to folks that do no research on their own.<rant /off>

Thanks Marc 😁

On 5/7/2023 at 3:09 PM, zolotiyeruki said:

Here's a Dickey eRacer for sale.  $19k for the airframe, $15k for a newly-rebuilt IO-360:

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1725285441248691/

Description:

Dickey  E-Racer home built aircraft
2 sets complete plans, 100% fitted just needs assembled, needs electronics sorted and paint. $15,000 new Lycoming IO 360 rebuilt engine zero miles, New prop with 2 spacers , Lse plasma ignition electronic and magneto ignition. Plane is numbered, Minimal dash with radios also have engine monitor system. Unmodified factory Dickey hydraulic landing gear. Manufactured Canard, wings, The assembled pic is what plane would look like. Downsizing motivated seller LOSING STORAGE would like to sell whole but will separate. Would consider INTERESTING TRADES 60's corvette or ? CASH IS KING WOULD LIKE TO SELL THIS WEEKEND! selling for my father in law if questions about plane please contact Bill 3 6 0  431 5101 plane is located in Kalama, Wa 98625 10 min from freeway.   Contact Steve for showing or interesting trades.

Looks like the ad is gone

On 2/12/2023 at 11:57 AM, Jeff Ray said:

But i wonder for how much??   I didn’t know much about it and couldn’t find any info on it…..plus dated panel for a premium price.   Pass….

Maybe they know something I don’t 

Someone bought that 250k berkut. I’m blown away

On 1/25/2023 at 9:04 AM, zolotiyeruki said:

215 HP is a lot for a plane originally designed for an O-200:

 

Sure seems like a good buy. The engine has to be worth that much alone. Throw another g5 and a gps and hat in autopilot in it and it seems like a great xc machine. Too bad I don’t fit

On 1/15/2023 at 5:05 PM, AZairspace said:

 This one looks like the one someone was trying to sell for $100,000 last year I think. Back then it was in pieces. The ad said it was stored since late 1990s. He did not say why it was dismantled or why it was stored 

I am told that it is. 

Wanna overpay for a berkut? A bargain at 249k with an outdated panel 

https://www.barnstormers.com/classified-1797267-Berkut-360-Serial-006.html?catid=18719

12 hours ago, Jon Matcho said:

@Philg we had a hiccup last night but everything is now resolved. Welcome to page 49*!

* The page size may or may not change in the future.

Rajah thanks 

gotta get my daily fix of those sweet canard deals

It’s weird now the last post I can see in this thread is from sept 16. It won’t show me past page 45

20 hours ago, Marc Zeitlin said:

Old tires are what scared you? Seems like misplaced priorities to me...

Yeah I should definitely write the check to a guy that says 18 year old tires are still serviceable. I’m sure the rest of the plane is tip top after his careful assessment. Especially with fiberglass repairs involved 🙄

On 11/18/2022 at 6:46 AM, Kent Ashton said:

Post some of them

ADSB-OUT INSTALLED 11/11/2010 WITH A NAVWORX ADS600-B INSTALLED UNDER CO-PILOTS SEAT
KT-76A TRANSPONDER,RECENTLY HAD 2 YR INSPECTION
GOODYEAR FLIGHT CUSTOM III TIRES INSTALLED 1/21/2008,STILL GOOD.
RECENT CONDITION INSPECTION MARCH 2022.
NEW BRAKES
NEW BATTERY CONCORDE SEALED BATTERY
PM3000 INTERCOM INSTALLED 11/11/2010
NEW FUEL CAP ON RT.WING 5/20/2011
REBUILT ALTERNATOR INSTALLED 5/20/11,WITH SPARE.
40 HRS ON NEW HERTZLER 2 PROP PROPELLER(SPARE)
NEW ATX 8102 ELT 406 MHZ
ELECTROAIR DIRECT IGNITION SYSTEM
ELLISON THROTTLE BODY INJECTORS
NEW LYCOMYING XP-360 2001
ALL BOOKS,RECEIPTS,FROM ALL OWNERS
 

19 hours ago, Midengineracer said:

I think it was the seller saying the old tires were still good... 

it’s an indication of how well the plane has been cared for. 

On 11/6/2022 at 1:38 PM, Marc Zeitlin said:

This plane had an off-field landing on a road back in 2015 due to fuel exhaustion - had some wing damage that took Rich many years to get repaired, as it was down in NC, away from home in LI and Rich has studiously avoided being part of any canard community or organization, for reasons unclear to me.

I believe that one of the folks that he took the plane to (although I DON'T know if it was the person who actually performed the repairs or built a new wing - don't know which happened) was Dave Hanson. Nuff Said - Caveat Emptor. Might be perfectly fine, but the prospective buyer will have to ask a lot of questions about the repairs and who did them.

I asked for more pics and the details he sent included the tires are from 2008 and still good. It’s enough to make me run away

8 hours ago, zolotiyeruki said:

Looks like a nice plane. Tempting 

There’s a cozy mkiv project on the Facebook group. He’s asking 25k for it but he bought it from an estate and doesn’t seem very knowledgeable. Too many questions for me. I didn’t see it posted here. Sorry if I missed it and it was 

However, if the applicant's aircraft is under repair, in shipment, or under construction at that time, then the Director can grant a conditional waiver to allow the processing of a permit with the requirement that the applicant must have the aircraft certificated and airworthy within six (6) months of the effective date."

From here 

https://hidot.hawaii.gov/airports/files/2013/01/17-SmallPlane.pdf

6 hours ago, Ron Springer said:

You can register a plane and get a tail number at any time. There is no requirement for the plane to be finished or even started. The plane only has to be finished for the airworthiness certificate. I am not sure if that helps, but worth pointing out.

Yes, but somewhere in there is a six month limitation for the hangar. Let me see if I can find it 

The only guy I know was a year ago in a lancair 
 

https://www.6zqpilot.com/

7 minutes ago, Marc Zeitlin said:

I can put you in touch with the guy who has the COZY MKIV on the big island (PHMU) if you want to talk to him about shipping, owning, or flying a MKIV.

Don't come across planes based at kamuela often. Sure! I wouldn't mind picking his brain a bit or flying over to test fit the plane for me if he doesn't mind 

More rambling thoughts.the grumman is the ideal hawaii plane imo because you can fly with the canopy cracked but finding a decent one is a bit of a disaster. Plus the corrosion thing. And the weird bonded wings 

Oh and I can't afford a velo

 a bd-4 also fits the mission perfectly but good luck finding one flying for sale. I've been watching 

Wittman w10 might too but I'm a big guy, 6'2 280 (but going down slowly) so fit might be an issue. 

Yeah, I know. I've been down that road. Good luck  fighting the state. I got them to relent some but I think they said they'd give me 90 days or six months. I can't remember. You might could get it registered and a tail number assigned in that time and sneak by but I kinda doubt it.  Also no paint work allowed period. They might take exception to glass work too, I'm not sure. I don't own a garage so I can't start there and move to a hangar later either. I could maybe set up a plastic garage in the yard but I live like right by a bay and the corrosion is insane here 

Also there are no DARs here so you have to go through the fsdo. Last guy that did that they made him truck his airplane to diingham to test it. They're trying to close Dillingham. He said he wouldn't do any of it again. Yes you could probably fly a dar out...

The certified airplanes here are just junk after sitting around the ocean and I've always wanted an experimental anyway so I've been looking around for s.o.etching that'll work tk carry me, my wife, and a 45 pound dog inter island. Vans prices have gotten ridiculous, Mustang ii won't really fit the dog easily, thorp maybe if I can find an s18, We're too big for a long ez and dog... A cozy fits the mission efficiently. I don't need the speed but when gas is 7.50 a gallon efficient is nice. Plus fiberglass doesn't corrode.

Theres a rutan defiant on barnstormers with a trailer. That's a good option because the strake width isn't an issue and it comes in its own container. Roll on roll off shipping isn't bad a d the trailer is worth the cost of the kit when it gets here but I'm not sure that's a project for a first time builder  to dive into with no glass experience 

Phone typos a d a huge run on mess. Sorry.

Tl,Dr flying in Hawaii sucks 

Hangars are available, about $800 a month. I can get one immediately but they won’t let me build a plane in one, so I’d need a flying or at least registered aircraft to get one.

thanks for the link. Maybe you’re right and it’s not worth pursuing

Hello,

some previous posts mention you might be able to get a cozy broken down in a shipping container, sort of on a diagonal. I think at the strakes they’re something like 111” wide, so i’m having hard time visualizing how that is done. Does anyone have maybe some photos of one stuffed in something like a 40’ high cube container?

Alternatively, you think it would be possible to fit ferry tanks in back seats and ferry it, provided a professional would take the job? If the back seats are right on the CG, as I’ve read, maybe that’s not a bad way to go if a ferry pilot would touch it. It would need to cover about 2100nm plus reserves