Thanks Curt, I think my X-Plane Cozy came from you. Years ago in the cold snowy Winter up North the only flying I could do was X-Plane. Here is a video from my screen with my iPad and Foreflight conne

Yes, the canard flight models for X-Plane will always be free. I have been compensated otherwise for their development. Practicing at home is quite valuable. In addition to familiarity to aircraft han

I am updating the simulator flight models for canard aircraft, for the X-Plane application version 11.55 and beyond. Although this does not yet include designs for Virtual Reality, the flight models a

Marc In my lifetime Ive been involved in two of these incidences of which neither was in my plane. And amazingly enough they were in Cozy fours. And happened pretty much under the same circumstances a

Dear canard aviators, I am planning a trip from northern Germany to UK with my wife Elke and our Cozy III. Our main target is the 11th FAI Women’s World Gliding Championship 13-27 August 2022, The Gli

Folks: Just wanted to point people to a good article (with 100LL prices now around $7/gal) by Mike Busch in AOPA Pilot Magazine, August, 2022, page 84, about flying for maximum efficiency. He discusse

Happy Independence Day. Display your American flag and honor all those who fought for our country and freedom to fly. Steve

Folks, I have uploaded a Canard Calendar for July 2022 to the Canardowners.com web link. Members get first crack at the calendar. Non-members should sign up, right? The calendar should be visible to e

I have found Airnav to give pretty good info on any airport you’re interested in. You can read comments about the FBOs and how folks were treated. I picked one at random https://www.airnav.com/airport

Headed from Prescott July 23. Plan to over fly ABQ and cross Rockies then direct toward OSH. Would like to stop midway in Kansas. Looking for an airport that may have a courtesy car and a hotel in vin

Want to own an airport? There’s one for sale in southern Maine. Want to own an airport? There’s one for sale in southern Maine. The Limington-Harmon airport features two 14,520-square-foot hanger buil

Boys, After 17 years of the rebuild of N600EZ I’m trying to get it into the air. I don’t want to fly it until I’m legal. BUT the paperwork is almost harder than the build ! !!! Does anyone have any id

Keith, I have touched up and re-painted various spots and areas on my Cozy with good success. I had the original PPG ESSS paint code but after trying a new can I could see it was several shades too li

I’m involved in a restoration of a LongEz, and need the plan section describing the creation of the spar to cowl attach lip. Cant see it in the main plans and haven't got the engine section to hand. C

I have numerous spots that need touch up paint...hangar rash etc. And really it should get a complete paint job. But.... So I was thinking how to spray spot and mask off other areas. I'm thinking of u

Folks: I have to believe that we've discussed this in the past, but it bears repeating. A customer's plane has been beating the crap out of me for the past 5 hours of paid work time (and I HATE chargi

Late Monday we had some rough WX in Northern IL that spawned an EF-0 tornado in the area. It hit the Schaumburg Airport (06C), roughly 10 miles west of ORD, and some planes took a hit. Looks like the

Chrissi Bush wrote: _IF_ you could magically take all the lines out of the plane and string them up, then yes - this would be the optimal bleeding/filling methodology. But I've never seen an airplane

None of those documents seem to address the questions of what will replace rhe function that lead provides for…. yes, octaine/compression is critical, but if the lead was always optional, the why have

I have the infinity retracts so my highest point in the system is just above the trunnion where the gear swings. My master cylinder is in the plans position. I pressure bleed my brakes, even with the