From: "LOUIS LAURIELLO" Date: Mon, 6 Jan 1997 20:08:52 +0800 Subject: Re: COZY: cozy TWIN > Let us say that it is nice to have much needed moral support for our > rather radical idea. On the taxi tests things went very nicely > although we were not able to do many tests since we did not have the > wings on. We were mainly testing temperature behaviour of our Suzuki > engines. > > Regards > Carlos and Ruben Leon (Bros) Hi Gentelmen Just reading your post to the cozy builders and I am very impressed with your work. Please keep the information comming. One note of safety, in the late 80's in San Diego a long ez builder was doing taxi tests with the wings off but still had the canard attached and the plane flipped as the canard started to fly. So if your canard's on be very carefull, the rotation speed will be alot lower with out the extra weight of the wings. Louis Lauriello 5963 Rio Valle Dr. Bonsall, CA 92003 e-mail: LLAURIEL@SVC.PICKER.COM Date: Mon, 6 Jan 1997 20:35:44 -0500 From: INFINITY Aerospace <72124.347@compuserve.com> Subject: COZY: Taxi Test Hi Carlos and All, >On the taxi tests things went very nicely although we were not able to do many tests since we did not have the wings on.< You probably already know this, and sounds like you were probably not doing high speed taxi tests anyway, but there was a Long-EZ builder doing high speed taxi tests without the wings on, or the elevator connected, long ago, when he got going fast enough to lift the canard, and lost it. I don't remember the details, but Stet can probably fill us all in. It came out in the CP's afterwards to do all taxi tests with the aircraft totally together, and always be ready to inadvertantaly fly when doing high speed taxi tests. Infinity's Forever, JD Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 09:25:43 -0500 (EST) From: StetsonE@aol.com Subject: Re: COZY: Taxi Test In a message dated 97-01-06 20:40:23 EST, you write: > You probably already know this, and sounds like you were probably > not doing high speed taxi tests anyway, but there was a Long-EZ builder > doing high speed taxi tests without the wings on, or the elevator > connected, long ago, when he got going fast enough to lift the canard, and > lost it. I don't remember the details, but Stet can probably fill us all > in. The guy was in the habit of using his EZE (sans wings) to go from one end of the airport to the other, and making high speed runs down the runway. He rotated too far one day and the plane flipped over backward. The rollover structure broke, and the pilot had to spend several days in the hospital with some impressive scalp lacerations. Email me privately if want to see the whole article. If there's sufficient interest I'll post to the whole group. Don't want to waste bandwidth otherwise. I've been off the 'net for the past month. Trying to get caught up on all my back email. My Long-EZ has finally made its trip by trailer to Chino airport. I only have baffling and final assembly left to do. The plane should be ready to fly in a month or two. By the way, Bruce Elkind flew in to Chino for a canard breakfast in his Cozy IV on New Years day. Boy, what a beautiful plane! Congrats Bruce! Stet Elliott Perpetual Long-EZ builder by m5.boston.juno.com (queuemail) id XhJ02363; Thu, 16 Oct 1997 23:48:33 EDT Subject: COZY: Taxi Testing From: mbeduhn@juno.com (Mark W Beduhn) Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 23:48:33 EDT Someone sent me a note asking me if the FAA allowed taxi testing before the FAA signoff (but I accidentally erased the note). The answer is yes. You can do anything you want except fly. In fact they WANT you to have taxied the plane (and tested the engine) for at least an hour before they show up for the inspection. They figure that you will find most of the problems before they arrive. Mark Beduhn Cozy IV N494CZ - Flying From: Jim Hocut Subject: RE: COZY: Taxi Testing Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 07:50:43 -0700 Mark Beduhn wrote: >Someone sent me a note asking me if the FAA allowed taxi testing before >the FAA signoff .......They figure that you will find most of the >problems before they arrive. While at OSH a couple years ago I attended some most excellent Flight Advisor forums put on by Bud Davisson (sp?) and Norm Howell. One of the points they made was to do a LOT of taxi testing, and make it a point to taxi over the roughest pavement you can find. If anything is going to shake loose much better to find it now than 300 feet in the air with very limited options. Jim Hocut jhocut@mindspring.com