I am working in my own canard design, modifying a Cozy MK4 in order to fit my mission. I really enjoyed and I am grateful for your time showing us your work in that beautiful aircraft!
Great vid and beautiful Cozy. Wondering how those cover flanges on each side of your canard work for keeping cold air and water out? I'm looking at doing something similar on my Long-EZ.
The most rain it's been in was when it was parked on a ramp in Alabama with a Bruce's travel cover on and some (maybe a pint) did get through the canopy/longeron area because the canopy wasn't latched. I did fly through some light rain on the way to Rough River and didn't get any rain in the cabin. I can feel a little bit of air around my feet but think it's coming through the nose gear cover and maybe a little bit through the top nose gear cover. I think lips with a bead of soft silicone would make a very good seal but need to have some kind of release agent on one of the lips so the cover is easy to take off.
I have questions sir. 1. Does have Heat/AC? 2. Shortest runway takeoff/or landing? 3. Can De-icing be installed 4. Can these be built with folding wings? Just curious, and thanks for vid, informative.
Yes it has cabin heat. On sunny days the canopy alone can provide warmth if the cabin has minimal air leaks. Otherwise a heat muff and 3” scat tube provides plenty of heat for me. The shortest runway for take off and landing depends on density altitude, gross weight, wind, prop and engine. I’ve taken off in about 800-900 feet near sea level, 80 F, with only 10 gallons of gas and just me on board. Loaded pretty full on a hot day at 6500 DA, took a lot of runway. The Defiant is the only canard I’ve seen with one of the canard wings that would fold.
AFAIK, nobody has installed de-icing equipment on a Cozy other than heated Pitot and the ice shields for the elevator balance weights. I suppose it's possible to embed tubes to pump fluid to the leading edges.
Sorry for the dumb question but where is the baggage compartment? I had expected the baggage compartment to be forward of the cabin to balance out the engine and general propensity for aft cg?
The plans call the inside strake areas and the inside of the spar as baggage/storage areas. Some people will use the nose to store tools, oil and other small stuff but space is pretty limited up there. The forward passenger foot area has some space if the back seaters aren’t very tall. Under all the seats thigh supports is enough room for small tool bags, quarts of oil, water bottles, nose tire. As far as large bags go, you can haul three people and stack the bags in one of the back seats. Some people have added baggage pods attached to the wings that will hold skis , golf clubs and soft sided bags.
I just got my plans a couple weeks ago and I've been reading through them as a first step. I'm really interested in your antenna setup. With the foil not in the bottom of the fuselage, how has your nav comm been working? Is there any problems? I think setting as many of the avionics up in a bay like you have makes good sense.
A really thorough walk around. Thanks for posting.
I am working in my own canard design, modifying a Cozy MK4 in order to fit my mission. I really enjoyed and I am grateful for your time showing us your work in that beautiful aircraft!
Good luck on your design!
Awesome setup ! Thanks for sharing and your content 👍
Engineering is fun helps to be smart real smart thx for vid
Thanks for sharing! Your wiring looks amazing. Gorgeous Cozy!
Thank you! 😊
Beautiful aircraft. Great video and explanations.
Many thanks!
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Can you post a link to the dynamic prop balancer you added?
@ScottsSynthStuff Here's the link to my blog that has several links for more info. cozy1537.blogspot.com/2023/11/balancemaster-dynamic-balancer.html
Great vid and beautiful Cozy. Wondering how those cover flanges on each side of your canard work for keeping cold air and water out? I'm looking at doing something similar on my Long-EZ.
The most rain it's been in was when it was parked on a ramp in Alabama with a Bruce's travel cover on and some (maybe a pint) did get through the canopy/longeron area because the canopy wasn't latched. I did fly through some light rain on the way to Rough River and didn't get any rain in the cabin. I can feel a little bit of air around my feet but think it's coming through the nose gear cover and maybe a little bit through the top nose gear cover. I think lips with a bead of soft silicone would make a very good seal but need to have some kind of release agent on one of the lips so the cover is easy to take off.
@@mikesatchell8317 Thanks for info Mike. I'll look at adding in some type of seal or silicone as you suggest.
Nick Ugolini has instructions posted on how he made a good v-seal for the canopy. I should try that. nickugolini.com/blog/ @@wade-airdog7730
I have questions sir. 1. Does have Heat/AC? 2. Shortest runway takeoff/or landing? 3. Can De-icing be installed 4. Can these be built with folding wings? Just curious, and thanks for vid, informative.
Yes it has cabin heat. On sunny days the canopy alone can provide warmth if the cabin has minimal air leaks. Otherwise a heat muff and 3” scat tube provides plenty of heat for me.
The shortest runway for take off and landing depends on density altitude, gross weight, wind, prop and engine.
I’ve taken off in about 800-900 feet near sea level, 80 F, with only 10 gallons of gas and just me on board. Loaded pretty full on a hot day at 6500 DA, took a lot of runway.
The Defiant is the only canard I’ve seen with one of the canard wings that would fold.
AFAIK, nobody has installed de-icing equipment on a Cozy other than heated Pitot and the ice shields for the elevator balance weights. I suppose it's possible to embed tubes to pump fluid to the leading edges.
Nice work!
Sorry for the dumb question but where is the baggage compartment?
I had expected the baggage compartment to be forward of the cabin to balance out the engine and general propensity for aft cg?
The plans call the inside strake areas and the inside of the spar as baggage/storage areas. Some people will use the nose to store tools, oil and other small stuff but space is pretty limited up there. The forward passenger foot area has some space if the back seaters aren’t very tall. Under all the seats thigh supports is enough room for small tool bags, quarts of oil, water bottles, nose tire. As far as large bags go, you can haul three people and stack the bags in one of the back seats. Some people have added baggage pods attached to the wings that will hold skis , golf clubs and soft sided bags.
I just got my plans a couple weeks ago and I've been reading through them as a first step. I'm really interested in your antenna setup. With the foil not in the bottom of the fuselage, how has your nav comm been working? Is there any problems? I think setting as many of the avionics up in a bay like you have makes good sense.
The VOR and ILS antennas seem to be working fine. I had a friend shoot an ILS with me and it worked as well as his GA antennas.
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