First Flight in a Cozy MKIV 4 Seat Canard Aircraft

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7 ай бұрын

he Cozy Mark IV is a 4-seat, single engine, homebuilt light aircraft designed by Nat Puffer, with parts and plans supplied by Aircraft Spruce & Specialty Co. The aircraft is built from plans using basic raw materials. It is not a kit aircraft, though many small parts are available prefabricated.
Engine type: Lycoming IO-360
Cruise speed: 220 mph
Range: 1,151 mi
Wingspan: 28′ 0″
Top speed: 220 mph
Weight: 1,049 lbs
Length: 16.9′

Пікірлер: 96

@es330td 6 ай бұрын

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

@SirDrifto 5 ай бұрын

They really are

@Para_Ninja 6 ай бұрын

I love these experimental plane flight videos. Thanks!

@TimToussaint 6 ай бұрын

I love this guy’s dry sense of humor 😅

@RulgertGhostalker 5 ай бұрын

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.

@speedomars3869 6 ай бұрын

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.

@johnnybumpous9108 3 ай бұрын

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

@SirDrifto 3 ай бұрын

Definitely not on a high density altitude day

@buzz-es 5 ай бұрын

Sweet little ride, nice review.

@SirDrifto 5 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching

@user-augurus 6 ай бұрын

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👍

@user-sb3qg5ph5t 2 ай бұрын

Looks like a dern great ride. 👍

@gregdinauer5695 4 ай бұрын

Great demo vid. Thanx

@SirDrifto 4 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@shortribslongbow5312 5 ай бұрын

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

@SirDrifto 5 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching !

@jamiecaudill5915 Ай бұрын

Cool plane!

@vrdrift240 4 ай бұрын

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

@gordonfeliciano4315 6 ай бұрын

Nice Cozy!

@subconsciouslyinyahead7977 4 ай бұрын

A person just died flying one of these in ca

@Reloader449 29 күн бұрын

@@subconsciouslyinyahead7977 There isn't any type of aircraft that someone has not died in. Amateur-built airplanes are not inherently dangerous, just like Flying isn't inherently dangerous. But even more than the Sea, it is terribly unforgiving of any Incompetence, Incapacity or Neglect.

@jimhunter4999 5 ай бұрын

Thank you

@SirDrifto 5 ай бұрын

You're welcome

@RussellBond13 6 ай бұрын

Would have liked to see take off.

@Jmbueller 3 күн бұрын

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.

@delschier1419 9 күн бұрын

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.

@JamesDevon 6 ай бұрын

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

@speedomars3869 6 ай бұрын

Correct. His use of vortex generators are counter productive, but he wanted to lower stall speed in slow flight anyway.

@travelbugse2829 6 ай бұрын

I was flummoxed by that, too. I believe what he was saying is that the fore plane was stalling too early, well above the main wing's danger point. It's a cheap and quick fix, sure, but I think either a larger fore plane is needed, or an angle of incidence change. I am not sure about side-by-side seating either in terms of CofG changes.

@travelbugse2829 6 ай бұрын

I note it's a four-seater, so he has to have side-by-side seating of course - but still a bit of a headache for balancing it IMO.

@speedomars3869 6 ай бұрын

@@travelbugse2829 The cunard was used by Rutan to meet the requirement to make a plane that essentially cannot stall. The theory (and the reality) that the cunard stalls before the main wing, dropping the nose and lowering the angle of attack avoids a stall on the main wing. But attempting to alter the point at which the cunard stalls is not really productive as the stall characteristics of this design are as benign as it gets.

@judd_s5643 6 ай бұрын

The vortex generators had nothing to do with reducing the stalling speed! The original canard used on the LongEz and Cozy’s exhibited a phenomenon when flying in rain / and bugs splattering on the leading edge that would cause the canard to lose lift. If the plane was trimmed in cruise then encountered rain it would pitch down, the heavier the rain the more pitch trim was required, ultimately losing the ability to trim out the forces. I personally know pilots that were doing touch and goes at airports surrounded by agricultural and after a few circuits they would lose the ability to trim the pitching down out. They would land, wipe the leading edge and magically the plane performed normally. The vortex generators were installed to counter this. Ultimately Burt Rutan hired John Roncz to design a new canard airfoil which cured the problem.

@mikegmdw1 5 ай бұрын

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

@aldohattonduran5227 6 ай бұрын

My All time favorite plane 🛬🛩️ cozy 🛬 just the best 🏆🥇

@ahashdahnagila6884 6 ай бұрын

The interviewer talks too fast and interrupts the other man.

@nicklockard 6 ай бұрын

I want one.

@subconsciouslyinyahead7977 4 ай бұрын

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

@81gwarren 4 ай бұрын

me too.

@VigilanceTech 6 ай бұрын

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)?

@m1specialist 6 ай бұрын

25-35 MPG - the latter only if you climb high -17.5 and suck down on oxygen

@kleinbottled79 5 ай бұрын

Just to use some numbers from the video. (Had to wait patiently for the cruise speed.) 165 kt /7.5 gph = 22 ktpg or 25 mpg.

@ExtremeRecluse 6 ай бұрын

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

@Jay-Leigh863 6 ай бұрын

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

@geckoinc99 6 ай бұрын

I've known Cozy pilots that fit that category. I can play with the seat foam to help with fit and some have adjustable rudder pedals allowing for longer legs. Best advice is see if you can find one to sit in.

@PatHaskell 6 ай бұрын

Hello!!! Does anyone remember Burt Rutan??? This is not a new design at all!!!

@speedomars3869 6 ай бұрын

The Cozy is similar in design and construction to the 2-seat Rutan Long-EZ, from which it is derived, with approval from Burt Rutan. Rutan did not specifically design the plane, but licensed it to others who used his Long-EZ as inspiration

@TimToussaint 6 ай бұрын

The owner made this very clear though.

@MuzixMaker 6 ай бұрын

This was designed by Nat Puffer.

@keithsargent6963 6 ай бұрын

As a matter of fact the US tried rear wing front canard designs in WW2. I think the Germans did too.

@speedomars3869 6 ай бұрын

@@keithsargent6963 Fore-wings have been used on old and new planes. Many combat jets use them to increase maneuverability, the J10 Chinese jet for example. The Wrights used the Cunard design in the first powered plane, later the Swedish have built many such designs. In the 60s. they built a plane called the Viggen, Rutan used this plane to base his first design. New business jets are being design with them, and the fastest of turboprop plane is the Avanti EVO (Piaggio) which is also a pusher with a fore-wing.

@debragamon1949 6 ай бұрын

What happened to the takeoff

@cookingwithcuyandotherfuns6238 5 ай бұрын

Takeoffs are always lonnnnnnng with super-shallow climbs..... Don't have one but I have seen enough of a few of them to realize they take forever to get out and over obstacles. No thanks!

@markjennings2315 5 ай бұрын

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

@aminsherif9551 6 ай бұрын

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

@08turboSS 3 ай бұрын

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

@JK-zl7vv 4 ай бұрын

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

@owntor1 6 ай бұрын

Good ole LMO

@SirDrifto 6 ай бұрын

The wild west of the sky 🤣

@user-yg6dk9eh8g 4 ай бұрын

yugo,i will stay

@rlud2173 19 күн бұрын

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

@jonmurphy2564 Ай бұрын

I soloed at longmont earlier this month!

@kevinlewis9151 23 күн бұрын

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

@JAGRAFX 4 ай бұрын

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

@khtlon 4 ай бұрын

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

@wololo10 5 ай бұрын

I want a PTA6 on thhis

@SirDrifto 5 ай бұрын

That would be awesome

@vrdrift240 4 ай бұрын

It would be like a mini Beechcraft Starship!

@kevinlewis9151 23 күн бұрын

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

@rlud2173 19 күн бұрын

Motor glider, they have some good ones now.

@cookingwithcuyandotherfuns6238 5 ай бұрын

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

@michaelollom9964 6 ай бұрын

KFNL?

@SirDrifto 6 ай бұрын

KLMO

@rickstevens1479 20 күн бұрын

Long easy, not a lon easy..

@rickypickles5046 6 ай бұрын

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

@geckoinc99 6 ай бұрын

I think you might be thinking about the Long-EZ which is what the Cozy is derived from.

@kevinlewis9151 23 күн бұрын

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

@jaydenp4975 4 ай бұрын

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

@TheRealDreamBuilders 5 ай бұрын

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

@MRichK 5 ай бұрын

How to tell you did not watch or at least listen. The aircraft was started over 25 years ago and completed and flying over 15 years ago...

@SirDrifto 5 ай бұрын

Why change something that’s good.

@orthopraxis235 5 ай бұрын

Tits on females were designed a long time ago, and they still perform their intended functions without being replaced.

@JAI_8 6 ай бұрын

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.

@kleinbottled79 5 ай бұрын

Not pretending to know but would the lack of flaps partially explain a more shallow approach? Got no excuses for the ultra short final.

@vrdrift240 4 ай бұрын

He probably was a fighter pilot. He did mention he was Air Force.

@piperwarriorsimproject5705 4 ай бұрын

I think it was the low camera angle. That made the approach look extremely low

@jasonmerrick8597 2 ай бұрын

Having flown a Glasair 3 for years, I can tell you that this guy is flying it correctly; you don’t need to be risking stall in steep turns; he is managing the aircraft’s energy correctly.

@JaimeSadaAeronautics-lz1dp 6 ай бұрын

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?

@Hawk2phreak Ай бұрын

Errrr there are actually numerous fighters in service that have canards. Eurofighter Typhoon for instance.