Why Did I Buy This Weird Cozy MKIV Canard Airplane? 

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Brother 🙌🏻 this was the most comprehensive video I've seen on a canard airplane ✈️ I salute 🫡 you

As a Cozy builder, you did an outstanding job of giving a concise explanation of the comparisons and contrasts between conventional horizontal stabilizer, and canard aircraft. Well done keeping it as short as it needs to be, while hitting the important points. I would not change anything. Obviously you and I could have sat for hours and gone down the rabbit hole of Burt Rutan canard designs, but that would make a boring video for most. An idea for your next video subject, maybe talk about the history of Burt Rutan's Long EZ and Nat Puffer's Cozy?

What a well-spoken, intelligent, humble person. Excellent video! You sir are a great ambassador for the canard aircraft and flying in general!

Nice job! I built N36LV, this plane’s big brother. She has 370HP, comfortably seats 5, cruises at 195 kts and sips 13.5 gallons per hour. Sadly, retirement and insurance costs caused us to part ways. I learned a few things during our six years (11 counting the build time) of flying. Watch out for extended descents with lowish fuel levels. If the tanks are plumbed like a Velocity, you can unport the fuel pickups. Make sure those cowling fasteners are really good quality because everything, and I mean EVERYTHING back there goes through the propeller arc. I used screws at first but got tired of patching the prop with JB Weld. Take a look at Skybolt C Locks. Never had one come off. That canard stall is known as a Pitch Buck. I could climb at 3000 fpm with the stick full aft and the nose hammering up and down. Fun but kind of violent in a Velocity and passengers don’t like it at all. Like the V, it will probably make one really good water landing in an emergency. They can float for days. You will know you are a proficient canard pilot when you can perform 3 consecutive touch-and-go’s without letting the nosewheel hit the tarmac. Enjoy.

Dude I learned a lot about Canards! Thank you. I was sold until I learned about the CG and stall characteristics…

I fell in love with the Cunard design when I saw the Quickie flying out in Mojave, CA back in the 1980's. It was maneuvering like an F-16 with only a Volkswagen engine. But I've since learned it had it's own problems too. With it's landing gear out at the wing tips, hard landings could fracture the wing spar. But it sure was a sleek plane to look at.

I never thought about the complexity of this aircraft. When I lived in Santa Barbara, I remember a good friend of mine that already passed, building a cozy in his backyard. I never figured out how to fly it but I swore to myself never to get in. Now I know how fascinating it results this canard thing. Thank you for sharing.

You could have made a short from this by simply saying " Why did i buy this airplane? Because it is frigging cool, that's why!" END... 😄

The reason the rear tail plane pushes down in not to balance the engine weight. Rather, it is because of the forward moment of lift produced by the main wing. That is why if you throw a model aircraft wing, it tumbles forward.

truly enjoyed your presentation...you packed more info into 15 minutes than most do in 2 hours.

There may be many people who know more about aviation than you do, but I'm definitely not one of them. So thank you for those very informative explanations! I have always wondered why some airplanes employ the "duckwing configuration" and since there must be a reason for it, why not more planes do it. Now I understood.

I've had a spot in my heart to do this very thing for a long time. I was a crew chief on AC-130U for 6 years and owned an SQ-1000 (E-Racer derivative.) I love these aircraft and Burt Rutan blazed a trail for us. Thank you for this contribution to GA!

Hey!!!! Just got airborne in my Cozy MK3 for the first time today! What an absolute WOW!

I think Burt Rutan needs to be mentioned anytime these types of aircraft are discussed. God bless you.

Excellent information! Thank you!!

Thank you for the great info. ... keep em coming

Well done and informative thanks so much, liked and subscribed

I absolutely love the Cozy MKIV. I would love to have one, but I really don't want to build it. Great video.

Very informative! Thanks 🙏

This was a really nice explanation of the basics. Well done.

Great details, thanks!

Excellent explanation. Thankyou!

Very interesting. Great job!

Fantastic video and content sir. Thank you for posting. Fun fact. Curtis Wright made a similar craft in the 40,s called assender.... during stall tests a test pilot stalled one and fell 18,000 feet a...ah..rear end first..he bailed and survived. The plane was then known as ass ender. One prototype exists at Kalamazoo air Zoo in ...you guessed it.. Kalamazoo MI.

Love the video and your explanations is perfect. Thank you.

Excellent episode! I learned a lot :)

-- Great video! Very informative! 😊👍🛩️

Outstanding technical explanations of a canard aircraft . Thanks.

Great breakdown, thanks.

Nicely done video. - Love Canard aircraft!

Best video I have seen on canard aircraft. I was sold until 12:00 where we learn the aircraft can be stalled, something all the other videos I watched did not cover or stress.

Outstanding job!

Alway had an interest in aircraft from an early age and know a bit but learnt so much from your explanation of this type of aeroplane. Thank you.

very good information, Thanks

Great video. Very clear explainations from a canard lover. I really hope sooner or later to own and fly a Long EZ.

Thank you for the excellent description. Good details to make your points. These are the kind of educational videos that RU-vid, Rumble, Odyssey and the rest need. Liked and subscribed!

Wow, great explanation.

This was great and understandable. I definitely "liked" and "subscribed."

This was a fantastic explanation of a canard aircraft. Thank you.

like already stated, awesome video!!!! I haven't decided on a COZE or Velocity yet... but am leaning to the Cozy! Thanks

Amazing video keep up the good job

I am glad I watched your video, thought it would be boring but learned something I never knew regarding "canards".

Good video. BTW, the Wright Flyer was also a canard.

I enjoyed this video. I don't know if you mentioned it (I can't remember) but another plus of our canards is that we don't have to worry much about maintaining a "coordinated turn"! Also, you didn't mention that instead of flaps we have an air brake to slow the airplane during landings if needed. I say "if needed" because it's all in speed control. The approach will be a bit shallower without it but doable, for me that's SOP. Another advantage of canard designs: it's been so long that I haven't had to deal with "Adverse Yaw" that I can't even remember what that was all about. 😉

Great explanation.

This video is really interesting Thank you I have always wondered about that design

Fantastic explanation about this wonderful airplane

thankyou for going in depth about the shape of the plane and concept of canards and their part in making the plane airborne. I was initially not that interested but then I was hooked.

I've been subscribed form the start of this channel. Never herd of a Canard before. I think it's a really cool looking airplane. I like watching this channel. I find it very interesting.

Thank you sir. Hats off

This is wonderful information. I've always enjoyed the Cunard configuration and wondered why it hasn't become more popular. Now I know.

A very good explanation of the pros and cons of canard planes!

Very cool video!!!

You have given me a much more appreciative opinion of that plane thank you

really interesting, thanks

Excellent channel! You are very articulate!

I have always loved the Rutan Long EZ!!! Now I know more about it!

Super video!!

Fantastic education on Canard aircraft

Really interesting video, i'll will perhaps purchase a cozy mk4 project to finish here in France, and your explanation are really interesting, thank you. Hard to wait until the next video 😅

What a great presentation

What a great explanation, 15 minutes was over before I knew it. Subscriped of course.

Thank you. I'm not at all an aviation guy but I found this very interesting. Good luck with you channel.

Good refresher on canard design and it's boatload of aerodynamics advantages - but the narrow CG would be a bit scary for me.

Fascinating.

This is the best summary of how a canard plane solves problems. Thank you

Oh boy, had my list of potential airplanes down to 3. Now I have to consider canards! Excellent video.

The horizontal stabilizer is a symmetrical airfoil and is mounted parallel to the longtitudinal axis of 172s. Therefore there is no down lifting force on the horizontal stab. of a 172.

We had a plane like that based in Farmington MO for a few years. It was fun to watch it fly.

That is one of the best designs you can get your hands on.

thanks for the explanation about how critical the c.g. is

Love your talking videos. Please more hangar talk.

This was a great video! Thanks for such a simple way to explain what this unique plane is all about. I'm just a simmer but this plane is so unique I wanted to know more. SUB!

- Pretty cool airplane. - If the lift is downwards, is it still "lift" ? 😀

Great video! I did not get to build mine sadly.

This is the best video I've seen to date on canard design personal aircraft. I'm interested.

I enjoyed the explanation. Thanks. A couple of things that I wonder about. 1. How do you avoid hitting the prop on the ground? 2. How do you not end up with a nose strike on landing? I can imagine speed being your friend in both answers, and as you mentioned in the video, but can you expand on that?

I love Canards... i have always wanted a long ez

Theory vs. Practical reality… For both Canards and conventional planes… The leading wing can cause dirty airflow to the following wing… affecting the lift the trailing wing provides… Some canards put the front wing in a higher vertical plane compared to the main wing…. Some conventional planes use a high wing, or extend the tail further back…. Full flaps in some planes can blanket the air getting to the rear wing, thus causing a tail stall… A tail stall in a conventional plane removes the down force, and is the cause of it becoming a lawn dart…. During test flights… put some tell tails😅 on the following wing… see if the airflow is disrupted by the canard at different angles of attack. The down force on a conventional tail can be about 50LBs or so… which wastes a matching 50Lbs of lift…. Sooooo….. the canard has the opportunity to earn about 100LBs more of useful load over the conventional plane… good for about an hour and a half more fuel… or another skinny person… If the canard sends too much dirty air and disrupts the lift generated behind it… it is very easy to lose the theoretical benefit of the canard wing’s lift…. Useful load of similarly powered fast planes is about 1k LBs… this includes the weight of four people and fuel…. getting a spare 100LBs UL for a plane is always a blessing! 😃

Very Interesting always wondered what the heck is the story behind one of those planes 👍

From reading comments here, it's obvious that there's a lot of misunderstanding about this type of airplane in general. You did a good job of trying to explain the differences compared to conventional airplanes but your comments about CG may have scared a few. The Cozy is more finicky about this than the Long-EZ, VariEze, Berkut, but unfortunately most people don't know the difference.

I probably will never going to be capable of buying not even flying a canard plane, those are the planes of my dreams the velocity xl specially, but this video got me on the edge of my seat learning a lot and enjoying your explaination of this beautiful bird. Thanks a lot!

Amazing aeronautical class 💪😎✌️

I understand that the Long EZ had issues with flying in the rain and that is was solved with the Cozy. Can you expand on this?

Your video explained a lot I did not know about Canards. The CG and why Canards don't have flaps was very interesting. As well as weight limits for the front seats. I am a very big guy and would have to fly alone in the front seat. I liked the Cozy I seen one a EAA in 2006 But it is a little small for me. I would like to get a Verlocity XL.

I found the talk about the CG interesting.

Burt Rutan really likes this design.

That was the 14BIS from the actual father of aviation Alberto Santos Dumont not the wright brothers hahaha…jokes aside his plane was actually the first one to fly on its own power not being catapulted into the air. I love the velocity airplane and hope to one day be able to buy one

Best explanation I’ve seen of the canard design. Thanks. Why did you choose the Cozy over the Velocity?

Glad you covered the aft CG stall issue. Canards always look attractive on paper, but get them in unfamiliar attitudes outside the normal flight envelope like inverted or over speeding and watch out. They can do unpredictable things that can be not only hard to recover…but the method of recovery may be let’s say, not intuitive.

LOVE.... the 14bis photo

Very nuanced CG issues. Great video overall.

The horizontal stabilizer on the back end of that Cessna does not exert Force downward unless you have the horizontal flap on it in the upward position. In neutral position it doesn't exert force in either direction, because it's not designed as a wing. It doesn't become a wing unless the moving portion of the horizontal stabilizer goes in the upper position creating a downforce or in the lower position creating a lifting Force. Kind of the reason why it actually exists.

Something that might be useful would be in internal pulley to slide a weight forward and back to move the CoG

You really know your stuff, very interesting. I would love to hear your thoughts on the the Long-Ez vs your Cozy, Pros vs Cons. Edit : Typo

Interesting

Very good article and now I know why most aircraft are of conventional design

Agree and surprising that the canard never seems to have caught on.

I own and fly a Cozy IV and had a LongEZ for years. Both my airplanes had a John Denver fuel valve. With my LongEZ I would pre-flight check the fuel valve as it would get stiff and I would spend hours removing it and lubricating it. One day flying my Cozy I went to switch to the fullest tank before landing and the fuel valve got stuck in the off position! I was looking at the highway below to make an emergency landing and then realized I could try and put the valve back on the tank it was on, which worked; whew. I did not fly the Cozy again until I ripped out the $30 John Denver valve and put in a $200 valve. After what happened to John Denver it is crazy that anyone would have that cheap valve in their airplane or that they are actually sold for aircraft use. BTW I read that John Denver knew his valve was jammed before he took off and that he actually a pair of vice grip pliers on it as a handle to be able to turn it.