Vacation, work and personal life are making it hard to keep progressing. But anyway I've been trying.... Some day, I'm going to make fantastic progress. Unless I get paged at 0430 and... oh wait....Oshkosh is next week. Well maybe after that...dang the weather is getting hot. May have to move into air conditioned comfort to keep working on this.
The winglet was bondoed onto the wing and then flipped over, then I went on vacation. Then came home and found the foam I'd set the wing on had compressed enough to push down on the winglet and the bondo popped loose. So started over, set the wing a little higher and also stacked foam under the winglet tip to help steady it there.
I wasn't clear on which bottom winglet went where so emailed and got an answer. I'll be looking closely at others while in Oshkosh. There's been a lot of modifications by builders here with blended winglets, smaller lower winglets (or none), full length rudders, extended rudder travel. One prize winning builder told me in OSH that one thing he'd do differently would be to put a sacrificial piece of oak on the bottom of the winglet.
I remembered in my piles of parts I had the hidden rudder bell horns (in the photo laying approximately where it will be installed). With it were several versions of instructions. The URL on one set of instructions isn't valid anymore. There's plenty of builder web sites that turn into rabbit holes and I'll spend hours looking at them. No wonder these "pre-Internet" guys built faster than we do now. ;-)
This is my supplemental builders blog for a Cozy Mark IV which is a 4-seat, single engine, homebuilt light aircraft designed by Nat Puffer, with parts and plans supplied by Aircraft Spruce & Specialty Co. The aircraft is built from plans using basic raw materials. It is not a kit aircraft, though many small parts are available prefabricated. The Cozy is similar in design and construction to the 2-seat Rutan Long-EZ, from which it is derived, with approval from Burt Rutan.
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Chapters (Blogger Labels)
- Chapter 01 Description and Introduction
- Chapter 02 Bill of Materials
- Chapter 03 Education
- Chapter 04 Fuselage Bulkheads
- Chapter 05 Fuselage Sides
- Chapter 06 Fuselage Assembly
- Chapter 07 Fuselage Exterior
- Chapter 08 Head Rest and Seat Belts
- Chapter 09 Main Gear & Landing Brake
- Chapter 10 Canard
- Chapter 11 Elevators
- Chapter 12 Canard Installation
- Chapter 13 Nose - Nose Gear & Brakes
- Chapter 14 Center Section Spar
- Chapter 15 Firewall
- Chapter 16 Control System
- Chapter 17 Pitch and Roll Trim
- Chapter 18 - Canopy
- Chapter 19 - Wings/Ailerons/Attach
- Chapter 20 - Winglets & Rudders
- Chapter 21 - Strakes
- Chapter 22 Electrical System
- Chapter 23 - Engine Installation
- Chapter 24 Armrests Seats Fairings
- Chapter 25 - Finishing
- Chapter 26 Upholstery
- Cozy Builders
- EAA
- FAA
- Flight Testing
- Landing Brake and Center Console
- M Drawings
- Maintenance
- mods
- Skunk Works
- Trip reports
- Wheel Pants
Monday, July 13, 2015
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Relevant links for supplies and other info
- Cozy IV Specs
- Cozy Builders - Google Groups
- Unofficial Cozy Builders Site - updates to plans and much more information (maintained by Marc Zeitlan)
- Cozy Builders Mailing List, POH and other info
- Cozy Builders - Map
- Official Cozy Aircraft Site (outdated site)
- Canard Zone
- Central States Association - Facebook
- COBA Canard Owner and Builder Association
- Builder Sites (maintained by Erland Moen)
- Experimental Aircraft Association
- Rutan Aircraft Flying Museam
- Dennis Butler's Grand Champion
- aerocomposites.aero - Gear legs and fiberglass parts
- Aircraft Spruce Cozy IV Parts
- http://www.wicksaircraft.com/index.html
- 3:23 Composites
- SDS EI EFI
- Cozy Girrrls
- Skycraft Surplus
- www.enginegearonline.com/
- Infinity Aerospace
- NIck's web site
- https://www.stuarthose.com/
- http://www.tostenmfg.com/
- www.eurekacnc.com
- Featherlite (http://aerocad.com) parts
- http://aeroelectric.com/
- www.long-ez.com/
- Earl's Performance Fuel Systems
- FAA Amateur Built Operating Limitations
- FreeFlight Composites
- ADS-B blocking
- FAA - A&P / Experimental Builder Experience
- EZ.ORG moved to ez.canardaircraft.com
- Fiberglass Warehouse
- High Temp Epoxy
- Marc's Nose Gear parts