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I believe the postmark on my Cozy plans envelope says 1999. Here it is early fall of 2006 and I've come back full circle. Along the way, I bought the 'How To Build an Airplane' book (plans for the BD4) and assembled most of the empennage (tail section)...
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The Standard Mods: Electric nose gear either by Steve Wright or Jack Wilhelms . There is no way I want to manually crank gear. Plus the plans method does not allow for the aircraft front gear to be extended or retracted while a passenger sits inside....
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With the seatback out of the way (just needing a few touch ups) and our technique approved by our local guru LLoyd it was time to move onto F22. F22 is the light green bulkhead at the front of the aircraft shown in the picture below. It actually is built...
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After doing the first practice lay-up in Chapter 3 we decided to just move forward and start Chapter 4. We skipped the confidence builder and the bookend. Ok, it's called a bookend but really! Oh yeah, the seatback. The seat back is the red part in the...
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I went back and forth. Do we start with the practice piece and use some of my Chapter 4 & 5 supplies for Chapter 3 or do we just dive in and do Chapter 4 right off the bat? We decided to start with Chapter 3 and see what happens. Jan set out to cut...
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When we finally decided to build an airplane we went through the normal back and forth of looking at the hundreds of possiblities. I had flown the normal bottom end Cessna stable of 150's, 152's, 172's and a 175. After all at one time my dad was in charge...
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When we started building our RV9 our garage was bigger, I had installed 8 foot high-ouput florescent lights, had hung peg board on the walls, put in 30 amp service on each wall of the garage, ya-da, ya-da, ya-da. Now our garage is smaller; the lighting...
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Epoxy Cabinet Anyone cruising the net of Cozy builder sites can see some great looking epoxy hot boxes. While I don't have extensive wood working skills I decided to build my own box like everyone else. We went to the local Aircraft Parts Store/Depot/builders...
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