Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 07:40:16 -0800
From: Eric Westland <ewestland@altavista.net>
Subject: COZY: Allen Fuel Valve?

Now that I have fuel in the plane, the Weatherhead fuel valve turns
hard.  I considered lubricating it, but as long as I was going to make a
small fuel mess any ways, I decided to remove it, install the Allen fuel
valve and be done with it.  BTW, Wicks still has some left $123, ACS
re-stocked and raised the price to $142 which I assume Wicks will do
when they re-order.

Anyhow, in the way it was delivered the position of the handle for left
and right tanks is opposite of the Weatherhead and opposite of what I
consider normal for my avgas fume soaked brain.  Does anyone know if it
can be disassembled and reversed?

Thanks,

Eric Westland
Mukilteo, WA

From: cdenk@ix.netcom.com
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 16:27:57 -0600 (CST)
Subject: Re: COZY: Allen Fuel Valve?

Eric wrote <Allen Valve - Does anyone know if it can be disassembled and reversed?>
Picturing what is in the inside, NO!, the passege in the spool that turns is a 90 degree hole. The 
best you can do is pick the best location for the handle for one position. I filed a new flat to 
change the orientation of the handle, then drilled a small hole, and drove a drive rivet where the 
old flat was, so the handle could only go one position. the pointer to the right = right tank, down 
= left tank, and left = off.

From: SWrightFLY@aol.com
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 21:22:33 EDT
Subject: Re: COZY: re-sale liability avoid liability.

In a message dated 5/21/99 2:14:06 PM Central Daylight Time, 
longpup@hotmail.com writes:

<< Sorry for the waste of bandwidth but what if you were a company that was a 
 licensed and bonded LLC say with at $10,000 bond.  And if you were to sell 
 an airplane licensed under such a company would that protect you?  There are 
 a lot of "home businesses" that could fall into this category some of which 
 might be homebuilder owned.  This may be a question for Steele. >>

I must ask "protect" from what? You will never be able to prevent a lawyer 
from fileing a lawsuit just to see what might "fall out." In my former life I 
worked for a major property casualty insurance company that had a "pay em 
off" committee that knew the suite was filed just to get a pay off so the 
insurance company would avoid the costly legal process. At the end of the 
day..........you will possibly incur lawyer fees even if you are totally 
blameless and the fees can be in the 6 figure range. The TEAM issue is quite 
unique and you will see a careful analysis in future issues of the major 
sport aviation magazines. I am afraid it will cast a very grim light on the 
"lawyer trade".

Steve Wright- VP of TEAM aircraft
President of
 <A HREF="http://www.canard.com/noselift/">Wright Aircraft Works LLC: 
Electric Nose-Lift for EZEs
</A> 

From: "Peter Cornish" <pcorn@ozemail.com.au>
Subject: COZY: Looking at building a Cozy or Velocity
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 10:26:56 +1000

This is my first posting to the Cozy feflector.
If you also recieve to the Cannard Aviators reflector you already know
what I am contemplating.

For those of you that are not on that list I was looking at building a Long
ez and a velocity.
This has now changed and it is more Cozy V Velocity. inesance Plan V Kit.

I know that there differences in the design of the plane, but I think it all
comes down to cost.

I found out that there is a healthy number Cozy Mk4 builders within about 2
hours drive.
Also I found out that the Mk4 can be approved by CASA (Equivilant to the US
FAA) under 101.28.


The fact that the cozy is an evolution of the LEZ and that it was an active
company supplying the plans.
I have fully ruled out the Aerocanard over the Velocity. the price
difference between both kits is minimal and even acording to Aerocanard's
website is their aircraft is smaller.

If I choose eventualy choose to build a cozy I will be getting the plans
sooner rather than later.

I have ordered the Velocity Info pack. so I will have some questions with
that package. once I have examined that info I will be ordering the Info
Pack from cozy and then weigh up the to options.

Last night I had a realy detailed look at the Cozy web page in particular
the sample construction page. the first reading it was like double dutch (I
expected that) by the 5 revision  I have a very good understanding of how to
construct the fuselage sides. I realy think the the rule measure twice, cut
once applies to reading the manual. Have a good understanding of what you
are trying to do before you start.

So after I review both info packs weigh up both pros and cons and then
decide on either a kit or plans built.

Do you get a list of all parts required to complete the project. This is
probably answered in the info pack but I would like to know sooner rater
than later. I assume there is one but I just want to confirm that.

Thankyou

Peter Cornish