Cozy MKIV

I'll be catching up in previous construction steps, today I was able to carve some of the blocks for the canopy. It took a while to get the foam from ACS, and then I got busy. Everything has been sitting still since April 22.  Today I was able to optimize my workspace, walking around takes time. Then having the table close to the airplane was an improvement.

I started cutting strips of 3 inches from the 2 inches foam, then fitting each to size.  It took 1.5 hrs to make the strip and fit 14 blocks.  Pending the to finish the left side.

I hope to be more constant on my build.

So many distractions.

i follow the technique presented by Charles in his website

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It was an interesting travel, I made it with my cousin.  We picked up the airplane at Oshkosh, it took us almost 3 hours to load a 15ft U-Haul truck. Then rushing a winter storm while we were driving south. 

Our first leg was to Kansas City, where we picked up a trailer the next morning to be hauled to Dallas.Hauling the trailer got us a discount for the truck rental.

The second leg of our trip started in an interesting way, driving in an unfamiliar hilly city with black ice on the road, looking for an address that we got wrong, after one hour we were able to get to the dispatch center of U-Haul and got the trailer hooked. 

We continued rushing the snow, that came with us to Dallas. Dropped the trailer and made the rest of the travel to College Station. 

As a member of EAA I had the oportunty to participate in the 2106 Houston's version for Composite Construction Workshop. This is a course that is open to anyone, no need to be a member of EAA. Just a tip: the discount to EAA members on the general public price pays for the membership, plus the additional EAA benefits.

What a great experience! The workshop not only allows you to develop basic skills and get familiar with composite construction methods; It allows you to meet great people as well.

Thank you so much to Mark Forss, our instructor, a great speaker, open to answer all kind of questions, encouraging in the practices. The venue was unmatchable, the Aviation Institute of Maintenance, in Houston, just across Hobby Airport.

The workshop is organize in such way that optimize time, we jumped into hands on exercises rigth away. We did hot wire foam cutting, mixing resins and fillers/primers, glass cutting, glass lamination, cooking parts to speed-up the cure process, vacumm bagging, poor man's prep of wet glass, molding, gluing parts, fixing foam, fixing layups, and more. It is incredible the amount of things that you are expose in just two days.

 

At the end we have a cured canard section and a T of sandwich composite with tree finishing techniques on surface and to method to finishing joins!

 

All over all great!

 

Now ready for more practice and challenges.

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All homebuilders know that Cozy is builded from plans.  We got a project in chapter 14, with unfinished some previous chapters. 

Wings as Eagles airservices is a minstry of Wyldewood Baptipst Church.  They got the airplane as a donation. It seems that she is # 1033 original built by Jim Watt. More research will come on the matter.  For now this is the set of images availables when we got the "kit".

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