REFLECTOR: Rough River 2011 - 25th Anniversary Canard Fly In

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I have not seen a lot about having blended Winglets but what I have heard is there is
little change in performance if any. So why would some one do this? Just for looks?
It does look cool.

Ron
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Darrell & Nora Kufalk 
  To: 'Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders list' 
  Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2011 7:41 PM
  Subject: Re: REFLECTOR: Rough River 2011 - 25th Anniversary Canard Fly In


  Chris Esselstyn is a fellow member of EAA Chapter 18 in Milwaukee (It All Started Here).  http://www.eaachapter18.org

  In November of 2008 he decided to cut the winglets off his Cozy and install blended winglets.  He sent some shocking pictures to our newsletter editor.

  I cringe every time I look at them.  It took a lot of guts to do something like this.  Ya think he measured twice before he grabbed the saw?

   

  Darrell

   

   



   

   

  From: reflector-bounces at tvbf.org [mailto:reflector-bounces at tvbf.org] On Behalf Of Brett Ferrell
  Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2011 12:09 PM
  To: Alex Balic; 'Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders list'
  Subject: Re: REFLECTOR: Rough River 2011 - 25th Anniversary Canard Fly In

   

  Yes, they're both RG, Race 54 is Chris' airplane, the blended wings are newish on both.  Trust me, these are the airplanes with the blended winglets.

   

  http://www.cozybuilders.org/Oshkosh_Presentations/2006_Esselstyn/index.htm

  http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNum_Results.aspx?NNumbertxt=540EZ

   

   

  http://www.cozybuilders.org/Oshkosh_Presentations/2006_Esselstyn/index.htm

  http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNum_Results.aspx?NNumbertxt=541SL

  http://www.velocityxl.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=5764&d=1317920816

   

   

  Brett

   

       -------Original Message-------
        From: Alex Balic 
        To: 'Brett Ferrell' , 'Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders list' 
        Subject: RE: REFLECTOR: Rough River 2011 - 25th Anniversary Canard Fly In
        Sent: 06 Oct '11 11:51

        Hey Brett-

        The one on the RR pics was orange/white, but it had the RG, external scoops and blended intersections- unless those two guys did the mod at a later point, it is not either Scott or Chris's aircraft- nice sites though!

         

        From: reflector-bounces at tvbf.org [mailto:reflector-bounces at tvbf.org] On Behalf Of Brett Ferrell
        Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2011 11:22 AM
        To: reflector
        Subject: Re: REFLECTOR: Rough River 2011 - 25th Anniversary Canard Fly In

         

         

        Alex,

         

        There are two Cozy's with IO-540 engines fiying the blended winglets, Scott Carter (the Yellow N541SL, check out the link for a lot of details) and Chris Esselstlyn's N540EZ (the red/orange Cozy, again check out the link).  I believe both feature 12" radius blends, and I know Chris indicated to Elizabeth that his speed did not increase, but they're cool.  They're usuallly the top act, as they take tons of folks for rides and do some formation passes, but the air portion of the fly-in was subdued this year.


        Brett

        -- Brett Ferrell

        b! ferrell at fastmail.fm 

         

        On Thursday, October 06, 2011 10:36 AM, "Alex Balic" wrote:

          Any info on that RG Cozy with the blended winglets- looks like it was Race 54?

           

          From: reflector-bounces at tvbf.org [mailto:reflector-bounces at tvbf.org] On Behalf Of Brett Ferrell
          Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2011 10:07 AM
          To: reflector
          Subject: Re: REFLECTOR: Rough River 2011 - 25th Anniversary Canard Fly In

           

          For those that did not get to attend, Rene Dugas and Darrell Kufalk have shared some really nice pictures of the fly-in, the link is below.  I think everybody had a pretty good time, aside from the Glasair accident, and the weather was better than average.  I hope more folks will make plans to join us next year!

           

          http://www.roughriver.org/picture_gallery.php?level=collection&id=6

           

          Rene - I don't think my emails are reaching you, so I texted you that information.  Please call me i! f you didn't recieve it, and sorry for the delay.


          Brett
       

   



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