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This award winning 12-minute film has many breathtaking scenes as it follows a Cozy Mark IV in flight over various locales. The beautiful cinematography truly captures the romance, adventure and experience of the Cozy Mark IV.
In the early days of the 20th century, a British Newspaper offers a prize for the winner of a cross channel air race which brings flyers from all over the world. There are many sub-plots as the flyers jockey for position and the affections of various women.
Highlights of commuting to Mojave via. Vari-Eze and the evolution of Feather Lite, Inc. for the past 24 years touching on some of the projects encountered on the way.
An honest and sometimes humorous discussion about attitudes for safe flying and building. A focus on the challenges builders and flyers encounter as builders, owners or pilots of EZ type planes. There will some discussion regarding the utility and efficiency of our Canard planes, including many rewarding experiences that I and others have enjoyed. The talk will be supported by photos and graphics in a PowerPoint presentation.
Would you like to improve your engine reliability and increase the speed of your canard aircraft? This seminar will give you the background to do both by decreasing your engine temperature and decreasing the drag on your aircraft.
Discussed will be techniques for evaluating your aircraft for cooling problems with proposed solutions siting the advantages and disadvantages of each. Several areas of high payoff drag reduction will be covered with expected performance improvement estimates.
This will be a presentation of my experiences on both sides of the “Great Engine Debate”. My Cozy began life with a Mazda Rotary engine. After 70 hours and a few interesting adventures, it was reborn with a Lycoming HIO-360. However, this presentation will be an objective look at what it took to install and prove out both engines – not encourage or endorse either.
There will also be some great stories on what to do and not do in an emergency – and how to avoid at least one kind of emergency!!
The presentation will touch on the program development for setting two World Altitude Records with a Long-EZ (35,027’). Although many enhancements led to the flight's success, two were the most significant: 1. the use of Vortex Generators; 2. dual electronic ignition. This discussion will focus on the test development of Vortex Generators for the Long-EZ.
The presentation will cover:
Hertzler Propeller, Inc was started following retirement from a career of turbofan design and project experience. Using this background, a propeller design process was developed and will be discussed. Details into the manufacture of the propellers, the equipment and materials will be covered as well as performance and vibration testing.
Larry began rebuilding aircraft in 1966 with the purchase of a basket case Insterstate L-6. In 1970 he started two experimental projects, a Jeanie's Teenie II and a Volksplane. At the same time he was rebuilding a Cub, TriPacer and a Taylorcraft. In 1978 he completed a Vari-Eze. Larry worked for Burt Rutan from 1981 to 1984. Started Feather-Lite in 1985 to build composite parts for RAF designs. They now build composite parts for everything from homebuilts to rockets.
Burrall has built three aircraft, a Quickie, Vari-EZ and a modified Cozy IIIx. Burrall has over 1,000 flight hours in his homebuilt aircraft.
In 2003, Burrall founded Freeflight Composites, LLc and currently employs two full time and two part time employees. The company has the know how to help the builder get a handle on the project's technical aspects and re-vitalize the vision that is so important to the successful outcome of a project.
Burrall is both a EAA Technical advisor and a EAA Flight advisor.
Gary has spent his career as a mechanical engineer working in the turbofan design industry for 30 years. He built a VariEze in 1980 and has accumulated over 3400 hours.
Gary holds three world's records in his VariEze for non-refueled distance and flight efficiency.
He has formed his own propeller business specializing in high efficiency composite covered propellers for the homebuilt industry. His Silver Bullet propeller is world renown as being one of the fastest propellers for canard aircraft.
Joe is a management/information technology consultant living in the Pacific Northwest.
Joe spent 5 years building his Cozy MKIV. The first flight was in 2006 with a rotary engine. After extensive testing and a few problems, the rotary was replaced with a Lycoming engine.
Jim is a retired automotive engineer. He has worked in electrical & mechanical engineering as well as quality control. He has also done stints of assistant teaching at MIT (Mechanical Engineering cap-stone course) and University of Michigan Aeronautical Space Engineering. Jim is also an EAA Technical Advisor.