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

Peter Braswell peter.braswell at gmail.com
Fri Oct 7 10:49:15 CDT 2011


No offense to anyone, but I'm going ahead and filing a blended wing tip
under "if it ain't broke, don't fix!"   I just couldn't bring myself to cut
off a perfectly good wing-tip! :)

P
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On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Alex Balic <velocity_pilot at verizon.net>wrote:

> Hi Darrell,****
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> Having the chord of the winglet and the wing offset like on the Cozy and
> other EZ’s provides a better drag profile then the matched chords that we
> have on the velocities, so Chris would not have seen as much of an
> improvement as a Velocity might.****
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> Thanks for that link I am interested in how he made the connection back to
> the winglet.****
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> *From:* reflector-bounces at tvbf.org [mailto:reflector-bounces at tvbf.org] *On
> Behalf Of *Darrell & Nora Kufalk
> *Sent:* Thursday, October 06, 2011 7:41 PM
> *To:* 'Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders list'
> *Subject:* Re: REFLECTOR: Rough River 2011 - 25th Anniversary Canard Fly
> In****
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> Chris Esselstyn is a fellow member of EAA Chapter 18 in Milwaukee (It All
> Started Here).  http://www.eaachapter18.org****
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> 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.
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> 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?****
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> Darrell****
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> *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****
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> 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.****
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> http://www.cozybuilders.org/Oshkosh_Presentations/2006_Esselstyn/index.htm
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> http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNum_Results.aspx?NNumbertxt=540EZ
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> http://www.cozybuilders.org/Oshkosh_Presentations/2006_Esselstyn/index.htm<http://www.cozybu!%0d%0a%20ilders.org/Oshkosh_Presentations/2006_Esselstyn/index.htm>
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> http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNum_Results.aspx?NNumbertxt=541SL
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> http://www.velocityxl.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=5764&d=1317920816***
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> Brett****
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> -------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****
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> Hey Brett-****
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> 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!****
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>  ****
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> *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****
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> Alex,****
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> There are two Cozy's with IO-540 engines fiying the blended winglets, Scott
> Carter <http://www.eaa.org/experimenter/articles/2010-08_extra_ez.asp>(the Yellow N541SL, check out the link for a lot of details) and Chris
> Esselstlyn's<http://www.cozybuilders.org/Oshkosh_Presentations/2006_Esselstyn/index.htm>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.****
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> Brett****
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> -- Brett Ferrell****
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> b! ferrell at fastmail.fm ****
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> On Thursday, October 06, 2011 10:36 AM, "Alex Balic" wrote:****
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> Any info on that RG Cozy with the blended winglets- looks like it was Race
> 54?****
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> *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****
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> 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!****
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> http://www.roughriver.org/picture_gallery.php?level=collection&id=6****
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> 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.****
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> Brett****
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