Thanks for featuring the Long EZ! As another commenter pointed out, there was never a kit for the Long EZ. All Long EZs are hand crafted from plans. The Long EZ has 40% more wing area than the Vari Eze, another correction. My Long EZ N83DT, Race 83, is shown at 7:09, 7:14, 10:05, and 10:26 in the video.
I attended the Oshkosh airshow in the late 1970's and got to hear Burt Rutan speak about his Vari-Eze. I had an FAA A&P license plus pilot license and he convinced me I needed to build one. I bought his plans and started gathering all the components. Shortly afterwards I had the opportunity to buy a 1946 Cessna 120 so sold my Vari-Eze plans and components. Always been sorry I didn't build that beautiful airplane. Burt is a genius!
A long EZ with a Rotax 916is would be the non plus ultra long range Single.❤ Only surpassed in performance not range by an enlarged long EZ with twin 916is engine configuration!😂❤ Or a shrunken Twin Velocity with double 916is😊❤ It could be stellar fun ! - I wonder who will dare it first. 😊❤❤❤
Yea as others noted it was Dick and Jenna Yeager who piloted Voyager. Knowing that story is realizing that it's truly a miracle that they survived the flight. You want to get the scoop - warts and all - it's in the Next Five Minutes . Dick - a fantastic and better pilot then his brother - past away in May. There were questions I had wanted to ask him but let the time slip by.
This is a nice overview of some fantastic Rutan-designed aircraft. But it's more than a bit ironic that this appears on a channel named "Big Metal Birds", when Burt's designs featured many options for fuselage materials OTHER than metal!
I have plans for the Cozy Mk IV variant. The plans call for a 180HP O-360 engine. By the time I get to the engine phase of my build I really hope Rotax has a 180 to 200HP offering. Or batteries and electric aviation are finally a thing.
Thank you. Like your quality videos and also thank you for metric measurements. And yes to both videos. Fieseler Fi 156 Storch would be worth a video as well.
360 cozy and 320 long ez are comparable. How they are build is a bigger factor. Remember Melville put a 360 in his ez and said all he did was burn more fuel
From 1984 to 1992 I grew up around Mojave. We had an airplane and had a hanger at the Mojave airport. I worked with the Rutans. I don't have anything really nice to say about them.
Agreed. We are losing a lot of info. I have been around Ezs for over 25yrs. Attended Osh many times and heard Burt and Dick speak. My family has spent many hours with Rutan and Mike. This video does not do justice to the evolution of the long ez. Example. Rutan designed the Viggen because he wanted a personal fighter type airplane. We know Dick flew the Voyager (and he did not let Jeana fly much). Mentioned Ss1 but nothing about wk1. The 4 place canard shown is the defiant. Burt wanted a safer twin. That lead to his best design ever...the boomerang. Back to the EZ, it did start out with elevons, but they did not work well and the tortional rigidity is not there with the fuse. Not to bash the channel, but so much more info is out there
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Thanks for featuring the Long EZ! As another commenter pointed out, there was never a kit for the Long EZ. All Long EZs are hand crafted from plans. The Long EZ has 40% more wing area than the Vari Eze, another correction. My Long EZ N83DT, Race 83, is shown at 7:09, 7:14, 10:05, and 10:26 in the video.
Burt didn’t pilot Voyager, his brother Dick piloted it.
... who recently passed away.
I was going to make the same comment.
I attended the Oshkosh airshow in the late 1970's and got to hear Burt Rutan speak about his Vari-Eze. I had an FAA A&P license plus pilot license and he convinced me I needed to build one. I bought his plans and started gathering all the components. Shortly afterwards I had the opportunity to buy a 1946 Cessna 120 so sold my Vari-Eze plans and components. Always been sorry I didn't build that beautiful airplane. Burt is a genius!
A long EZ with a Rotax 916is would be the non plus ultra long range Single.❤
Only surpassed in performance not range by an enlarged long EZ with twin 916is engine configuration!😂❤
Or a shrunken Twin Velocity with double 916is😊❤
It could be stellar fun ! - I wonder who will dare it first. 😊❤❤❤
Yea as others noted it was Dick and Jenna Yeager who piloted Voyager. Knowing that story is realizing that it's truly a miracle that they survived the flight. You want to get the scoop - warts and all - it's in the Next Five Minutes . Dick - a fantastic and better pilot then his brother - past away in May. There were questions I had wanted to ask him but let the time slip by.
Thanks for the video. LongEZ is my absolute favorite GA airplane.
This is a nice overview of some fantastic Rutan-designed aircraft. But it's more than a bit ironic that this appears on a channel named "Big Metal Birds", when Burt's designs featured many options for fuselage materials OTHER than metal!
Thanks for the awesome video, i think that with the turbo rotax the speed gain at altitude would be way much higher than the 10% 🤔
glad you liked it! yeah, i wanna see someone put 916 is in it!
Love the canard design, wish to see a video about the cozy mkiv !
I have plans for the Cozy Mk IV variant. The plans call for a 180HP O-360 engine. By the time I get to the engine phase of my build I really hope Rotax has a 180 to 200HP offering. Or batteries and electric aviation are finally a thing.
I’m struggling with the choice between the two. Both are incredible.
If you take only 1 passenger max and you have a long runway (not high altitude) then probably 150 HP is enough with a climb pitch prop setting...
Nice video but the Long-EZ was built from plans. It was never offered as a kit.
Edge Preformance as makes a modified Rotax 917 engine called the 918ti. Still turbocharged that makes over a 190hp.
My dad built a Long EZ in our garage in 1982. My mom made many calls to Burt.
It crashed on my birthday in 1997. No fatalities. (Fuel line vapor lock)
Thank you. Like your quality videos and also thank you for metric measurements. And yes to both videos.
Fieseler Fi 156 Storch would be worth a video as well.
Cozy and the Cozy MkIV well out perform the LongEZ, especially if an IO-360 and even a couple IO-540 installs.
360 cozy and 320 long ez are comparable. How they are build is a bigger factor. Remember Melville put a 360 in his ez and said all he did was burn more fuel
I want to see a Rotax engine in a Long EZ too!
From 1984 to 1992 I grew up around Mojave.
We had an airplane and had a hanger at the Mojave airport.
I worked with the Rutans. I don't have anything really nice to say about them.
What kind of people they were?
The control surfaces which control pitch are called elevators, even on a canard.
The canard does not have ailerons, it has the elevator,
I love 'em
I own the plans for one and a diesel engine should vastly increase the range
What diesel engine?
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8:20 Electric=Green is the BS of the century.
his brother flew the voyager not him
The Long EZ was never a kit.
So many mistakes in this video. Such a shame.
Agreed. We are losing a lot of info. I have been around Ezs for over 25yrs. Attended Osh many times and heard Burt and Dick speak. My family has spent many hours with Rutan and Mike. This video does not do justice to the evolution of the long ez. Example. Rutan designed the Viggen because he wanted a personal fighter type airplane. We know Dick flew the Voyager (and he did not let Jeana fly much). Mentioned Ss1 but nothing about wk1. The 4 place canard shown is the defiant. Burt wanted a safer twin. That lead to his best design ever...the boomerang. Back to the EZ, it did start out with elevons, but they did not work well and the tortional rigidity is not there with the fuse. Not to bash the channel, but so much more info is out there