REFLECTOR: Velocity SE wing vs. Long-EZ wing

[Chuck Jensen]

Dave, you're a real party pooper...throwing a bunch of facts into the
middle of a speculation party.

Chuck Jensen
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From: reflector-bounces at tvbf.org [mailto:reflector-bounces at tvbf.org] On
Behalf Of davedent at comcast.net
Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2006 2:47 PM
To: amillin at sbcglobal.net; Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders list
Subject: Re: REFLECTOR: Velocity SE wing vs. Long-EZ wing


I just got off the phone with one of my buddies down at Scaled. He's
been there from the start. We talked about this subject.  I have had the
LongEZ and the CozyIV and the Velocity.  
I have worked all styles of the Velocity.  All but the VeryEZ mount the
wings the same.  Just the spar design had changed. From box to web
design on the Velocity.  The airfoils on the LongEZ and the Cozy's are
the same. Nat Puffer pays the roylities on it.  The Velocitys changed a
lot and still needs help.  But I dough if that will ever happen.  The
canard has changed the most on all of them.   
The EZ and the Cozy's are Eppler airfoils,GU canards. The first airfoil
on the VeryEZ came from Dale(Bob)Reed of NASA the lifting body engineer.
Burt tried for a number of days to get his off the ground before Dale
had him change to the GU. Then it got off the ground. This flew for a
number of years with great success.  
Later the Roncz RII45MS came out for the LongEZ and man what a
difference.  Less rain effect with the RII45MS. Very high lift. The MS
stands for Mike and Sally, Mevill that is.  This is one of the biggest
problems that cause the deep stalls. The wing would stall before the
canard.  So it's mandatory to install the vortilons.  Don't fly without
them if using this airfoil on the canard. For less drag a canard with
the Roncz design having dihedral in it gave less airframe drag.  This
done,would allow smoother air flow over the wings allowing less
turbulence to destroy lift.  This is why some EZ guys have bent front
wings. Also the nose doesn't slam down when out of airspeed  but it does
come down a lot faster on touch down. You gain some airspeed out of it
as well.  Not much but if you are a racer every knot counts. Don't even
think about changing the Velocity wings or canard without consulting
Velocity, this would be very bad, and puts you very deep water without a
life vest. 
Dave





 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "Andy Millin" <amillin at sbcglobal.net>
> Velocity went through an extensive test and development program to 
> remove deep stall.  The result was a modified wing shape for the 
> Velocity.
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> Andy
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> From: reflector-bounces at tvbf.org [mailto:reflector-bounces at tvbf.org] 
> On Behalf Of John Tvedte
> Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2006 11:23 AM
> To: Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders list
> Subject: Re: REFLECTOR: Velocity SE wing vs. Long-EZ wing
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> It would be interesting to know if it is based on the GU vs Roncz 
> canard
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> From: reflector-bounces at tvbf.org [mailto:reflector-bounces at tvbf.org] 
> On Behalf Of Scott Derrick
> Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2006 10:15 AM
> To: Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders list
> Subject: Re: REFLECTOR: Velocity SE wing vs. Long-EZ wing
> 
> 
> As far as I know the the main wing airfoil is the same on all the 
> canards, EZ, Cozy, Velocity...
> 
> I'm not sure about the canard airfoil..
> 
> Scott
> 
> Jon Matcho wrote:
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> Richard J. Gentil wrote:
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> You will find the Cozy III will have the same wing as the Long EZ.
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> The Cozy IV and the Velo SE are a larger wing then the Long EZ.
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> The Cozy IV has the same exact airfoil as the Cozy III and Long-EZ, 
> but
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> the mounting has been changed with the Cozy IV.  I'm wondering (for
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> historical purposes) if the same is true with the early/first Velocity
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> aircraft designs -- the ones that evolved from the Long-EZ design.
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> Anyone know?
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> Jon
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> Jon Matcho
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> Building Cozy Mark IV+
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> www.canardzone.com/members/JonMatcho
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> www.canardzone.com/forum
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