First Flight in a Cozy MKIV 4 Seat Canard Aircraft

I'm confused, why would you want to reduce the stall speed on the canards with the vortex generators? Don't you want the canards to stall before the main wing stalls? I would think that if anything you would want to put the vortex generators on the main wing to stop dangerous pitching up in a stall :S

Vortex generators increase the minimum drag and decrease the maximum lift-to-drag ratio. They can help in slow flight as in takeoff and landing, BUT they will reduce cruise speed, nothing is free. Other than that, this is a beautiful speciment of a plane.

I love this guy’s dry sense of humor 😅

whole thing shows us this is good 4 passengers air plan ,I wish if impossible put this bird to examination tests like other builders doing ,if this gentleman wants seale or takes orders for selling plus interior costume made

It's a 4 seater but seems a bit cramped. Would a 220lb 6ft6 person fit into this aircraft? Anyone have the answer?

This is a copy of Burt Rutan's Q2 from 1980. 40+ years ago. Hardly a new design.

I missed it. What kind of fuel economy could it get with a couple of normal sized people onboard traveling at cruise speed on a reasonably long trip (say 90% of it's max range)?

To get the same performance from a certified plane you would spend 800k

The final approach sure seemed to me to be really dragged in; too low, too high powered/too fast and thus not properly executed from the point of view of a single piston engined civilian cruising kind of aircraft.

Does this have something to do with a necessity of the design of this type? Or is he just demonstrating poor technique?

I was nervous watching this guy’s whole handling of the base and final “legs”; he flew them like he was some kind of fighter pilot with one long almost continuous turn from downwind to touchdown. And the extremely abbreviated final approach looked really low and hot to me.

Tell me why I’m wrong; I’m just coming at this from a PPL-A point of view trained extensively on Cessna’s 150, 152, 172M, 172R, 172SP, 310J twin, and a Piper PA-28R-200 Arrow … those kind of planes. I was “sweating” that final approach, lest even the smallest thing went wrong on him … like a little downdraft or gust across the fields on short final.

Люблю Уток Рутана❤ Они эстетичны и производительны, но "чайникам" не поддаються🤗
Формирование пограничного слоя турболизаторами... может перфорация или щель😎
Быть Добру✊️ и взлет=штатной посадке👍

Would have liked to see take off.

I knew someone about twenty years ago with a Velocity. These planes are absolutely incredible.

Not really efficient. They seem efficient because they have very small wing area and therefore, they can fly fast but at the expense of a high stall speed. Its the ratio of top speed/minimum speed what makes an efficient design. Then, the designer chooses how much wing area he wants and that depends on the intended runway length he is designing for. Clyde Cessna was not dumb. He designed his aircraft for typical county airport dimensions, not executive jet airports. There are several fixed wing designs that for the same power fly faster. If they were very efficient why don't aeronautical engineers build canard sailplanes and win contests? Why Reno air racers are not canards? Why fighters are not canards and why commercial airliners are not canards?

Oh look! It’s a 4 seater Vari-eze. So, design-wise, we’re still building 50 year old designs…with minimal improvements.

Very nice video aircraft is really neat and worth the effort you made building it. Thanks for the flight. :o)

I want a PTA6 on thhis

Thank you

the was about the time of the Velocity SE release, i think ....i don't know how they compare, but kudos to the guy for finishing it out so nicely.

pilot ic squlch should be a little lower, most words loose the fist second which was quite annoying

On a hot day with 3 people and full fuel.....she'd never climb out of her own shadow.

Accessibility for passengers would be a concern, OK if you're young and fit otherwise how do you get in?

Sweet little ride, nice review.

I am interested in purchasing this air craft, how do I get a hold of you?
J.k.

You could tell his workmanship is top notch and he knows that plane inside and out. That landing was impressive as well!

Sounds like you folks are using those famous "voice activated microphones" in this presentation which invariably leads to bizarre sounding exchanges in conversation.
😊

Someone crashed in CA… fyi that’s why I’m here😮

Stupid design. I like the pusher engine, but keep the tail on the backside.

yugo,i will stay

Couldn’t pay me to get into one of those little death traps. No thanks.

What's with the audio ? Why no take-off in the video ? Annoying

Great demo vid. Thanx

ok we missed half the conver on landing, roll out and didnt catch what was meant by 99% of the time in trouble???

looks like it would be fun, for two people...not sure I'd want four....

Looks like a dern great ride. 👍

Cool plane!

I soloed at longmont earlier this month!

Yeah thats a short dash, if you nose dive the last thing you see is your azz.

Nose wheel looks like it could just fold if you come in too hard

Id want a glider so I can go without fuel if I had to

Long easy, not a lon easy..

this guy needs to be a teacher/trainer, (the aircraft owner)

Great video and nice Cozy. My Cozy IV will cruise at 185 knots burning < 6.5 gph LOP. My Lightspeed electronic ignition helps. Mine first flew in 2001 and has almost 1000 hrs on it. I have done several 1000 mi non-stop flights FL to CT. On those flights I land with about 15 gal of fuel left starting with 40 gal (topped off with the nose down). I am curious, how do you get 165K views and 22K subscribers? My Cozy videos are no where near that poplular.

I admire Rutan designs for his desire to innovate. Which is a nice way of saying he has to be different for the sake of being different. But to make a statement like “so this design is inherently safer” is just wrong. The accident record certainly doesn’t bear that out. There are plusses and minuses to design decisions and there are a lot of minuses to this design including in the safety area.

no volume ???

Very nice aircraft thanks for taking me along. :o)

Great use of checklists !!

You missed the take off! Come on

owners always talk about what an efficient airplane it is. lot of drawbacks, probably why most people don't have them very long and why they didn't make very many. had about a dozen airplanes over the years, never even considered one of these death traps. my airplanes had a POH and never needed any plans for any of them. most who like to fly don't like to look at plans or even the POH for that matter!

That's pretty cool! I don't know anything about planes, but the fact that you built it from parts is impressive. Having that intimate knowledge of the machine must be rewarding in a way that's not possible with factory-built aircraft. Congratulations!

what is nmpg on this??