Canardians, Wow, Sun-n-Fun; after a 15 hr drive it was worth every minute of it but we can sure see why those that can, fly there. It was wonderful to meet all of you that were there and finally put f

Bulent, Bill, Aside from the obvious structural issues with the longerons, would it not be better to put the groove and seal in the canopy instead? If you put any kind of seal on your longerons it wil

Dear Ron, Canardians, Now if someone could just figure out a nifty means for molding that groove on the underside of the canopy we would all be forever grateful. From the looks of it on the Berkut I s

Canardians, I have a friend in the San Fran bay area looking for a ride (fly or drive) to Osh. She has some aviation experience and is willing to share fuel expenses. ...Chrissi Cozy Mk-IV 13B-turbo w

The talk about evacuating the bottles (tanks), although you are talking in hypothetical terms may lead to someone trying such a thing. Bottles should not be evacuated or allowed to lose all pressure.

Dale, now that is real world information we can use, thanks. ...Chrissi Cozy Mk-IV 13B-turbo www.CozyGirrrl.com

Dear Norm & Curious people, We are alive and well, in fact if you go here: <A HREF="http://www.roughriver.org/richard_hughes.html"> http://www.roughriver.org/richard_hughes.html</a> ...about 2/3 the w

It is not so much the mechanical strength of the joint as its ability to resist fatigue stresses resulting from vibration. A stiff solder joint doesn't handle fatigue stressese caused by vibration as

For crimping HD terminals properly, West Marine (nationwide) carries a crimp tool that will do from #6 thru #4/0 wire for around $25. You are supposed to whack this tool with a hammer but we used it i

Dear Ron, Edmund Scientific: http://www.scientificsonline.com/ ...Chrissi Cozy Mk-IV 13B Turbo www.CozyGirrrl.com Chrissi@...

I gave a link to Edmund Scientific.. forgot they split up into several companies Try : http://www.edmundoptics.com/Find/Find.cfm?query=fiber& col=IOD_ProductSearch ...Chrissi Cozy Mk-IV 13B Turbo www.

bruce@... writes: I had a dear friend who had a successful business molding glass R/C boats, he died at 41 due to the chemicals. Please be careful. ...Chrissi Cozy Mk-IV 13B Turbo www.CozyGirrrl

Dear Wayne, Contact the good people at Shapiro Supply in St. louis, MO: http://www.shapirosupply.com/ Ask for Stan and tell him "the Cozy Girrrrls" referred you. They want experimental builder's busin

Dear Joe, The short answer is "not easily", but there is an alternative. Check this: http://www.rguerra.com/velocity/wingCam2/wingCam2.html ...Chrissi Cozy Mk-IV 13B Turbo www.CozyGirrrl.com Chrissi@B

Uh Marcus, what kind of fuel does a wooden Jabiru run on? :) ...Chrissi

Marc, A monster computer helps, I had one built specifically for the purpose and while other planes work great I am so far unimpressed with the dynamics of the Long-EZ model. It is going to take someo

Dear Brian, In x-plane it is as simple as calling up the appropriate file in MS-paint and making it whatever you want, change the n-numbers etc. X-plane's flight dynamics are such that you can change

read Kirk's report. I talked to Greg afterwards and he said the Lancair test pilot did things on the test flight that would have torn the winglets off any canard, the pilot was impressed and he could

Canardians, Does anybody out there who has used Jeffco (http://www.jeffcoproducts.com/) sp9700-FCR to seal their strakes have any idea how much material they used? It comes by the gallon. This is the

Canardians, Thank you for the great on-topic responses, seems many have gone this route. Also thank you to the rest of you for super-human self restraint. :-) INFO: I spoke to the Jeffco people this m