Rough River 2023: The Largest Gathering of Canard Aircraft in the World!

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On the third weekend of September, canard aircraft from around the US (and the world!) fly into Rough River State Park airport in Kentucky (2I3) for a weekend-long festival of everything Canard. A very loosely organized event, there aren't seminars or vendors - it's lovers of canard aircraft meeting, talking about and flying their aircraft.
2023 was the 27th annual Rough River fly-in, and I...well, flew in! This video documents my trip, along with some of the things I saw while I was there.
Russ Roams Cozy KZfaq Channel: / @russroams
0:00 Intro
0:31 Takeoff
2:06 Rough River History
3:09 Approach & Landing
5:48 Looking Around
6:05 BD-4C
6:39 The Airplanes
7:32 Presentation
8:02 Looking at the Planes
8:46 Airflow Testing
11:33 High Speed Pass
12:03 Car Show
12:14 UL520is in a Cozy
12:50 Franklin in a Cozy
13:08 Retractable Long EZ variant
13:23 Rutan Defiants
14:05 Velocity
14:24 Berkut
14:35 Speed Canard
14:50 Cozy Tour
15:47 Time To Go Home
16:54 Breckenridge for Fuel
17:50 Flying Home
19:51 Landing
No content in this video should be taken as flight instruction or advice. Refer to your aircraft POH and consult your CFI. This video has been edited for time and content, and context may be lost or distorted. This video is for entertainment purposes only.
#Canard #Cozy #RoughRiver

Пікірлер: 73

@russroams 8 ай бұрын

Kind words Scott really appreciate it and I've been loving your channel! You're doing a great job for Cozy content, I have a lot to learn lol 😊

@ITSFUNZ 8 ай бұрын

Awesome video and content ! Thanks 😊

@user-cr7tp8ob7t 8 ай бұрын

Great day with making great connections ❤

@Erik-rp1hi 8 ай бұрын

Great to see so many. My dad and I went to the 1989 Airventure and there were many of Rutan's craft. The Vari easy and Long Easy. Maybe the largest home built group of the year. My dad and I went 3 times from then til 2000. We always went to Burt's talks. I even had the Book about Jenna, Dick's around the world flight (1989) in Burt's Voyager aircraft signed by all three. I still have it. We even ran into Burt and Dicks parents walking into the show from the parked car we rented. She proclaimed with pride they were the parents. Very cool and super nice folks.

@Stephen_Heathcote 8 ай бұрын

Love it! What an excellent thing to do :) Just drop in, have a good time and go home . :)

@ludwigreiser4053 8 ай бұрын

Thanks a lot! 👍🍀

@BrianRhodes9763 8 ай бұрын

Great video.

@ThePudgie123 8 ай бұрын

Thanks for posting!

@zeitlinm 8 ай бұрын

Couple of comments: N603TB (Defiant) flew from Norway, not Finland. The forward rudder on some Defiants is called a “rhino rudder”, for what should be obvious reasons

@CanardBoulevard 8 ай бұрын

ahhh I had it written down as Finland, my mistake. Still an extremely impressive trip!

@mobsquad8500 8 ай бұрын

Glad you went. Thank you for posting…very cool hope to meet you there next year… BTW, thank you for the recommendation of the analyzer. Starting my antenna testing kit!!

@pennybroughton5994 4 ай бұрын

Rough river is amazing i seen that before i go to boat riding with my family

@steveasher9239 8 ай бұрын

thanks. always have loved canards. I'm a glider man but never flew RUTAN' GLIDER. good job

@DWBurns 8 ай бұрын

Great video. I am sending it to my friend who has a Velocity.

@valleyken 8 ай бұрын

You're gonna need 1 of those cargo systems like Russ, for when you fly to Sweetwater some day 😀

@CanardBoulevard 8 ай бұрын

Don't think that hasn't occurred to me...

@earthelder2065 8 ай бұрын

Very cool! Great video, I think I want to build one soon. Thanks!

@carlos76c 8 ай бұрын

Awesome video!

@JJMedusa 8 ай бұрын

-- Very cool video! I loved seeing all of the airplanes. And I always love hearing about the sights that you see on your flights, like the Ohio River, etc. 😊❤️🛩️

@johnwight6041 5 ай бұрын

I enjoyed watching! Very cool and interesting planes

@enricio 2 ай бұрын

Nice. 😎👏🏻

@simoncorporation3 6 ай бұрын

I liked this episode seeing all the canards and a few standard aircraft together, one day I may have one or maybe the next life😊.

@iiddrrii6051 Ай бұрын

yes

@malakov5 7 ай бұрын

Forward vis is something else. Very nice panel too

@countryfence8111 8 ай бұрын

Nice video. I used to own a Q2, and I still love fiberglass and canard airplanes (although I own/fly an Arrow now). We go to Rough River from Michigan often, they have a nice strip, and a nice State Park with a Lodge.

@dougyaroch3380 8 ай бұрын

Fly your own fly buddy ❤️☕️🍩🏍

@tlvideo8099 8 ай бұрын

Very nice video m, Tks.

@hansadler6716 8 ай бұрын

Great video. Looks like a great bunch of people.

@SamBirchenough 8 ай бұрын

love your channel. can you make a video about the nose gear and how / why you park with the nose on the ground? is there a skid?

@600torque 8 ай бұрын

I sure like the map showing your flight path

@markspedding9273 4 ай бұрын

Back of Spodman's head appears at 09:41. Nice video!

@kenwoychesko2163 8 ай бұрын

This was a really interesting video! I actually learned quite a few things. I did not know the Cozy’s rudders acted as brakes, I had never seen the spray-on to visualize the laminar airflow, nor had I ever seen the shark fin directional control on the Long EZ. Great job! Thank you for the content!

@CanardBoulevard 8 ай бұрын

The shark fin (actually called a rhino rudder) is on the Defiant, not the Long EZ. All the Rutan canards can deploy both rudders at once, which works as a speed brake.

@kenwoychesko2163 8 ай бұрын

Ah right! Thanks for the fix!

@sactu1 8 ай бұрын

We have quite a few carards down under - nothing near the numbers as in the US, but we see them flying around the place every now and then. Sweet looking planes.

@danielreuter2565 8 ай бұрын

Just think of the NASA shirts and pony tails in this group

@Berkut13 8 ай бұрын

@13:09 ...that's Scott Carter's highly modified 540 Cozy called the Xtra-EZ.

@CanardBoulevard 8 ай бұрын

It's faaaast! :)

@crystalclearwindowcleaning3458 8 ай бұрын

Amazing to see so many canards in one place. We're there any Quickie 2's there? That's my favorite.

@DblIre 5 ай бұрын

Nice video. BTW, the Sea-Bees are amphibs, not flying boats. Flying boats don't have landing gear. An old friend of mine had one, he commuted from his lakefront home in SE Wisconsin to Chicago in it.

@CanardBoulevard 5 ай бұрын

Flying boats are airplanes that use the hull for flotation and land with their hull in the water, as opposed to outboard floats (like a floatplane). Plenty of flying boats have retractable landing gear, making them amphibious.

@user-uf5bg5vg9m 4 ай бұрын

I’m surprised that I didn’t see any Quickies or Q-2’s.

@stevefranseen1905 8 ай бұрын

Did you get Bob Bittner's autograph?

@jamesharkness1058 6 ай бұрын

Would like to see a video about your transition training to learn how to fly a canard

@CanardBoulevard 6 ай бұрын

Have a look at this video: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mqiKZdycra-zgKM.html It's not all in there, but you'll see at least some of it.

@SithLord2066 8 ай бұрын

imma show up to next year's canard aircraft gathering in a duck-nose Su-34

@mitseraffej5812 8 ай бұрын

Missing was the Euro Fighter Typhoon.

@spolo123 5 ай бұрын

And the rarest of all the swiss Mirage III !

@bbutcher112 8 ай бұрын

Dumb question for you all! If you had limited funds, space, tools and experience what experimental aircraft would you build? Do any of the conards make that list? Asking for one of the voices in my head!!

@mezonspb 8 ай бұрын

Спасибо за репортаж. Дизайн этих самолетов очень необычен и чем то сильно притягивает внимание. Я ни когда не летал на таком самолете, но я летал на классическом высокоплане, много летал на дельталете и дельтаплане. Теперь интересно услышать из "первых рук", за что вы любите такую "птицу" ... за необычность внешности? за скорость? за экономичность? Что определяет ваш выбор в пользу EZ ?

@user-bg5jw9hc8v 8 ай бұрын

What date is this every year and where can I go to see it Thanks Edward

@CanardBoulevard 8 ай бұрын

Rough River State Park Lodge, Kentucky, third week of September. canardowners.com/rr

@user-bg5jw9hc8v 8 ай бұрын

@@CanardBoulevard thanks for replying fly safe my friend

@cozyflyinggirl 5 ай бұрын

In many of your videos, why can you not land on the centerline?

@MuzixMaker 6 ай бұрын

Didn’t know the Cozy parks in the grazing position.

@CanardBoulevard 6 ай бұрын

The Cozy was literally developed from the Long EZ - Burt makes a royalty off every set of Cozy plans sold. So there are a LOT of similarities.

@MuzixMaker 6 ай бұрын

@@CanardBoulevard ah, residuals…. I have a hat signed by Burt, and Sully/Jeff when I flew out for Airventure back in 2011. I suppose the weight distribution and main gear location in both the Velocity and the Berkut allow them to stand up without occupants.

@LSUtiger607 8 ай бұрын

You mentioned the modified version of a long ez with retractable gear. Do you know the N number or name of the owner?

@CanardBoulevard 8 ай бұрын

It's N541SL, and officially an "Xtra EZ"

@bmpowellicio 8 ай бұрын

I'm no aerodynamiscist, so I wonder how much efficiency is down to the canard configuration, and how much is down to the light weight composite construction. I suspect that the latter is the bigger fàctor, and the engine-forward approach is better in most circumstances. It seems to be quieter for those on the ground, albeit noisier for those on board. And the main wing works in entirely clean air, but gains in climb ability from the propellor airflow. Interesting aeroplanes all the same, and much more exciting than a whole herd of boring Cessnas.

@RobertoRMOLA 8 ай бұрын

@13:00 _Franklins on Cessnas 172?!_ Really?! I think you're mistaken...

@CanardBoulevard 8 ай бұрын

Oh you're 100% right, I was thinking of the O-300 Continental, which was also a 6-cylinder.

@mezonspb 8 ай бұрын

I wonder what aerodynamic quality LongEZ has. What is the rate of descent with the engine off? With one pilot, and with a passenger together?

@ZCHRL4 7 ай бұрын

L/D roughly 12.5:1

@curbowman 7 ай бұрын

Why are those planes sitting with their nose down? I feel like they are kneeling 😊

@CanardBoulevard 7 ай бұрын

Because they will tip over onto their props without people inside them.

@Journeyman1642 8 ай бұрын

WHY are they parked on the nose?

@CanardBoulevard 8 ай бұрын

Because when there is no weight (i.e. people) in the airplane, it has very little weight on the nosewheel, and can very easily tip over backwards onto its prop/winglets, causing serious damage. It is designed to retract the nosegear on the ground, so that the center of gravity moves forward, to prevent it from tipping over.

@kmg501 8 ай бұрын

Why does everyone park like an ostrich?

@CanardBoulevard 8 ай бұрын

Because without people sitting in the front of the airplane, the C/G is very far aft. It's very easy for the airplane to tip over onto its propeller, causing thousands of dollars of damage. So the nosewheel is retracted on the ground, to move the C/G forward so that this cannot happen.

@kmg501 8 ай бұрын

@@CanardBoulevard Ahh, thank you!

@ITSFUNZ 8 ай бұрын

Awesome video and content ! Thanks 😊