Weirdest Aircraft I’ve ever flown - LongEZ Aeros over
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FlightChops in 2019: Yeah there's probably going to be some sort of crazy pandemic next year that will shut the world down, so I better make sure to have several hundred hours of cool footage on standby to put out...
Saving the best for when everyone is watching.
Geez I hope not!
Pandemic crap that is.
@@429thunderjet2 Best not be any Pandemic bs next year since it's now coming out that everybody is lying about the numbers. Oshkosh '21 and all other events next year will be epic to make up for all the losses this year.
Kyle Fowl
It will probably be the SAME pandemic, but hopefully to a lesser enough degree that something like Air Venture can be run. MAYBE. Eventually COVID will become a seasonal thing, like other flus, hopefully, or there will be a vaccine (that has to be tweaked every year, most likely).
I appreciate how honest you are when you don't catch everything. Much safer to admit you didn't get everything than to smile and nod and make critical errors.
Much safer not to put yourself in this situation at all!
"The pedals don't go like this, they go like this. Okay?"
"no...."
"Impossible..."
I loved that answer because I thought exactly the same :D
I still don’t understand what he said 🤣
Was laughing hard 😂
2 rudders, 2 pedals. Simple ....said no pilot ever.
Hats off for handling not only a brand new and different designed aircraft but also the pressure of the airshow. VERY IMPRESSIVE!
Thanks! It was a lot 🤓
It just seems like yesterday you were a geeky nervous pilot in Canada self critiquing writ large. Now you Finally have your IFR ticket but more phenomenal is your ability to climb into , strap on and wear in this case , any platform with an Air foil ( to include RW to a degree ) and quickly adapt. Truly impressive
Still a geeky and nervous Canadian... just have a few dozen more types in my logbook now :)
@@FlightChops will you play flight simulator 2020 on release? And if so which version?
I love how so many content creators are really showing up and showing out for NOshkosh2020 and demonstrating that the community and the network are really what make experimental aviation what it is, not just an air show.
My orthopedic surgeon was a Navy A-6 pilot and his personal plane was a LongEZ. I ended flying with him quite a bit. What a fun plane. So light and responsive on the stick.
I was there in the audience at Theater in the Woods and not believing how cool it was to see my favorite TH-camrs in person. It was an interesting roundtable. Sure missing Oshkosh this year, but videos like this are really helping to make up for it.
I didnt get to go to Osh last year ☹
Varieze pilot here: absolutely brilliant. LEZ Kyle is a brave one letting a noob fly front seat :-) What an experience! First canard flight AND landing at OSH with Chatter and not knowing what to expect. A bit like my first solo in the VE which had all the pressure, but not the extras. I have done straight rolls, but the add some rudder is interesting and will try. The air to air was awesome especially the landing! Great Job for a first flight!
I still will be staying away from loops :-) Thank You for a GREAT video!
Please educate me on the LongEZ, I thought these had pretty low G tolerances?
@@WhereNerdyisCool That is a pretty broad request. Typically cruise at 160 knots, holds 52 gallons of fuel at 7 GPH burn and is strong enough to pull +5G and -2G ish. Use Google.
@@BrilliantDesignOnline I did. One response was 2G + and 1.5 - That sounded weird so I wanted to ask an owner 🙂
@@WhereNerdyisCool My aircraft is a Varieze, while fundamentally similar, it is a bit smaller. I do not exert negative G's in mine (IE when inverted, I am zero or positive) and I have pulled fairly assertively while solo, but I tone it down when I have a Pax. Googling 'varieze pilot manual' yields the first item of Vari-Eze Owner's Manual -Free by roynouguier free fr vezoman (link simplified) in a PDF on page 22 show +5 and -2 in the envelope chart.
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"It doesn't do this, it does this. Its does this, doesn't do this."
Hes just like.... "no (that's not right. That's not how that supposed to be)"
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂
That first cockpit shot showed the fuel selector right where Burt designed it to be, right between your legs. I had a flashback to the loss of John Denver in his Long-EZ, where the builder located the fuel selector behind his left shoulder.. Great job flying with zero TIT. Thank you FC! 👏👍
Appreciated - and yes the John Denver story is a tough one. But a good lesson for all of us to be familiar with the location and function of critical controls
I remember seeing these at airshows in the early 80s. Now I’m all amped up to work on my Cozy plans again. Thanks!
A friend's grandfather built a few of these in his garage for other people. Was always cool seeing a LongEZ.
While I love FlightChops' content, it's the little details that really move it one notch above. Like how the engine noise mutes the moment his headset clamps onto his ears.
Chops what a great episode, I really enjoyed watching the aerobatics in the Long EZ. It’s really cool to see all of the experienced pilots that flew with you and how well they planned and briefed the flight. Thanks
I am so in love with the Long EZ. Thank you for this virtual experience.
Learned something about the LongEZ... Now it makes sense as to why the rudders operate the way the do... They serve double duty operating as speed brakes! Thank you!
Got it, also there is a belly brake for decreasing L/D to get the thing down over objects, as it's practically a low performance sail plane at idle (or off). It shouldn't be left down on the ground, though, as it partially blocks the flow to the intake cooling air duct (not physically, but aero flow wise). The differential nature of the tip draggers also serves as high speed ground steering, like a rudder would normally, since the brakes are at the bottom, as you say..just in a differential pedal mode.
Yep , no flaps, you fly them right down to the runway, hardly any flare. 80kts, coming in hot compared to most 2 seat piston.
@@TD_YT066 No flaps, but there is a belly brake on the bottom of the fuselage, to allow you to increase the descending glide slope, otherwise you'd have a hell of a time getting in anywhere, as the thing glides not too far from a low performance sail plane, even engine off (prop stopped). You do still flare though, but not as much as a normal configured aircraft. You can certainly make ultra smooth landings with an EZ, though, not only, as my instructor used to call them "hemorrhoid checkers", when you plant solidly for various reasons, or just a botched flare.
I loved this video! My dad built a Long Eze in the 80’s and my parents were at all the air shows, not performing, but watching. He sold it and built a Glasair 2RG until he passed away in 2010 and we had to sell his beloved plane...sad day watching the new owner fly it away.
Ah man… sorry to hear that, but his plane will be loved and continue to fly
Just love this channel. We had a plane like that in our part of the world until the owner had a engine failure right after takeoff. It ruined his day. Very Stylish plane. I love it.
Glad you're enjoying the channel - and I hope your friend was ok
"...did a thorough briefing but the sound was *enhanced* by a bunch of jet noises..." There ya go, fixed the narrative for ya 😉
Right on, brother, and you should HEAR that F22 take off, if you haven't.
the longeze remains the most beautiful and economical homebuilt available. I would be overjoyed to see more of an emphasis on homebuilt aircraft performing at airventure, and a lot less of the military stuff. We are the "Experimental Aircraft Association," and we love these airplanes!
Thanks! Glad to hear people still like seeing the homebuilts flying at Air Venture.
@@kylefowler8775 I noticed a slight potential-jab in the dialogue at the Varieze (the airplane that didn't fly worth a darn?) I'm strongly considering buying a vari project to restore. would you advise against it? I've heard that the roll rates and control response are a bit better than the Long eze, despite the day vfr limitation. Thanks for the great show, and the great attitude.
'Follow the jet truck'...normal things one hears at an airport.
Surprised there was no warning to watch for jet wash.
Probably not that much different to "Follow the company tug to the ramps" that a lot of commercial pilots hear. Just unusual since GA pilots aren't usually in busy environments like Oshkosh.
@@edfrawley4356 Well, how many jets were flying that day?
Great stuff I am 60 years old but got 10 hours when I was a kid always regretted not getting my license.Thanks for sharing.
I used to fly a Long EZ (Cozy model), it seated two side by side. The best description of flying it, was like flying a Corvette in the sky. Stick reaction was Instant. The only negative thing i recall about it, was that landing speed was quite high compared to other aircraft in this class. The fun part was all of the people that ran out to look at the airplane, every place i landed it.
Thanks for the content! Been waiting for this one since you first teased it, there just isn't enough EZ content on TH-cam. Keeps the morale high while building mine.
I was so excited to see this video drop and it didn't disappoint! Burt Rutan and the LongEZ are the reason I love aviation. His innovative designs and "why do we have to do it this way" spirit have made homebuilding what it is today. I would love to have been sitting in that seat myself!! The dynamic between you and Kyle seemed really good and I hope y'all do more things together.
Kyle, if you see this, you need to bring that plane to the southeastern US so I can see your show!
I had a few there this year but look like it will have to wait. Here's hoping for next year.
I had the pleasure of meeting Mr Rutan at an air show in Prescott, AZ. Got a nice tour of his aircraft.
Thx Chops for this video. I've heard that the LongEZ design of Burt Rutan is the most economical of planes (8L/h) and has a top speed of 300km/h(+) and range of 3 200km/ 2 000miles. (With a ferry tank in the backseat its range is 7 700km! [+/- 5 000miles]) BUT on YT it said a man takes about 5 hours to learn and practice to change for a normal plane to the Long EZ. Burt Rutan also made the Model 74 Defiant. like a Long EZ with an extra engine in the front! For some strange and unknown reason that plane is not very popular? I thinks is a Fantastic and Save idea!
The Long-EZ has amazing range, but not amazing comfort as you can see. What good is an airplane that can fly for 12 hours if you can't stand to sit in for for more than 5 hours at a time. The Cozy and Velocity expand the cabin quite a bit and are quite popular even today, especially the Velocity XL. All of them have been what I'd consider successful, especially considering almost all of the Long-EZs and Cozys out there were built from plans or very basic kits. It's not uncommon to spend well over a thousand hours on shaping and sanding. The glass-on-foam construction isn't difficult, just tedious.
Plans for the Defiant were offered in late '84, Rutan withdrew from the plans market in 1985. Only ~170 sets of plans were sold. Too bad, it probably would have been very popular.
My neighbor next door built one of these planes in his garage back in the early eighties. I still see it flying around the Central Queensland area at times. A very unique, noticeable and safe design.
Random dude: Okay.....
Flight chops: no
IM DYING 😂😂😂😂
loved the loop the front canards make it almost impossible to stall
First time I heard about the LongEZ was one being built by my second cousins (ex) husband. He was a aeronautical engineer who was one of the many designers on the space shuttle. Never had the privilege to fly in it. Very interesting aircraft to say the least. Thank you for letting me video fly with you. Take care - be safe - hope to see more of your video's. "Spin"
Excellent footage these LongEZ's are so unique looking - Thumbs Up
bout damn time you flew a burt rutan plane, i love this guys designs, wish more people would think outside the box like he does
Agreed!
Me too!
I got to take an orientation flight (there was about 35 of us) in a KC-135. I was in the cockpit on take-off. We flew from Topeka, KS (KS Air National Guard) to Southern New Mexico. We refueled to B-1 Bombers. Then flew back to Topeka. Laying down next to the boom man is awesome. Thumbs up to the KC 135 Pilot Andrew!
"OKAY?" "NO" AWESOME FLIGHTCHOPS, SIMPLY AWESOME
Man that guy was a cool dude... Absolutely nothing fazes him!
"That was awesome!" I agree!!! Great experience there for you Steve and brilliant to watch.
Thank you kindly!
Awesome ride, thanks FlightChops. Follow your Excitement.
Had a lot of fun putting some custom military equipment in place of the back seat of one of these for testing. The test pilot took me up in the larger CM-44 model as a thanks for helping them put on a new prop. Very unique ride.
I'd be getting some more clear coat over that signature to make sure it never disappears!
Another brilliant video! Love the look on your face during the flight, nice to see you having some fun during these times. Perfect touchdown on landing as well!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Enjoyable to watch that beautiful bird fly.
Thank you!
I love all of Burt Rutan's designs. So different and smart. A true visionary!
Thanks for this awesome video. Also thank you for not adding mid-roll adds.
That’s awesome,what a great ride and thanks to the owner who made it possible. Wow.
I love this one! great job man! I think its the best in flight video yet..so much fun to watch. I think I will construct a home made LongEZ RC plane now.
That landing had me holding my breath.
“Yeah you can firewall it. Whatever.” Love this guy.
gear
huh?
GEAR
ok got it
MORE GEAR
this?
WRONG WAY
ah ok
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@@FlightChops btw, just giving you a hard time, I thought you did a great job!
I guess the real competition is to land this thing with the front wheel up and crank it down while keeping the nose up aerobraking :D
Don't feel bad: This is me after hundreds of hours: th-cam.com/video/uiWM_bxVS18/w-d-xo.html
And this is fun: th-cam.com/video/WvGFO28hwxk/w-d-xo.html
Aviation is Cool!
Sharing Aviation with others even better.
Great work Steve.
I was terrified and I sit in a chair on the ground infront of my computer... O_o Mad little plane that one! xD
Very Interesting. I have seen this style of plane before but never in person. Then, just two days ago I saw one here in Alamogordo, flying toward the Sacramento Mtns just behind my home. Very Cool.
I have over 2,000 hours in Long EZ's but have only taken the back seat twice. I didn't like it one bit but was trying to sell Long EZ's. Successful both times. I taught my 11 year old granddaughter how to do barrel roll from the back seat, unassisted. When my niece was in the Airforce Academy and home on leave in summers, I'd take her flying. She was in the glider club but had never flown a powered airplane. I taught her acro, loops, rolls, cubans, etc. Now she flies C 130's out over the Atlantic refueling fighters on their way to Yerp.
Great Air Venture content, helps with Oshkosh withdrawal
That looked like one cool day for you Steve, to get to fly such a variety of airplanes. And that was a cool plane and fast too. Thanks for sharing the experience, it was a pleasure to watch!!! ;-)
Glad you enjoyed it
Ok, so were going to put you in an airplane you've never sat in before, to do some aerobatics, oh, and the guy who owns it is in the back, with only a stick.... and did we mention we're going to do it in the middle of Airventure?
drinking from the fire hose again eh Steve?
Great clip!
That was AWESOME on so many levels! Thanks!
What an AWESOME airplane! Its like a baby J7 or XP-55! Ive always wondered what a plane like that feels like to fly
Feels fun
One of the funnest planes to fly. Very cool .
You got my like from that 2nd roll. That thing looked amazing cutting through the sky!
Thank you! Cheers!
Cool! Love that plane design! Love the Beech Starship!
A few years ago, in Sacramento, I looked up. I worked just south of Maclellan.
What? A VariEze? No, she's a turboprop. A twin! I then spied the "owl eyes" of stowed landing gear. She was just overhead.
Starship!!
I'll never forget it.
@@robertborchert932 Nice! Jelly!
I know many people don't think about it but the wright flyer was a 2 prop pusher with a front canard
They are a mad aircraft but like most of Rutan's aircraft fly well and look different! Great one to add to you log book.
Wow, that was INTENSE!!!!
I love those air-to-air shots!
I am an absolute fanatic for the Long EZs! Now you've gotta find a Berkut to fly, which is like a super hyped up EZ. So glad to see you got to fly one, they're really neat little planes.
"The pedals go like this *pushes both at the same time* .. okay?"
"No."
LMAO. Died laughing and I haven't even started.
Very well edited. Great little story
What an amazing aircraft and episode. Truly riveting. Thanks 👍🏾
Truly 'bonding' perhaps :)
That's Steve. We'll flatten the curve together and then be back better than ever next year!
The curve has been flattened and almost no hospitals were overwhelmed. My brother-in-law is a PA and was only working 1 day a week.
Wow! Always loved the Long Eze. Like a little, personal fighter. You looked good in there ,
I've been able to ride in a VariEze as well as a Long EZ. It's definitely an experience that is hard to forget.
Totally agree!
Good job 👍! I always wanted to fly one ☝️ of those, just not for the first time in the middle of an air show. You handled it very well! Thanks for sharing it with us.
Great stuff Steve. Keep the awesome vids coming. Be safe and stay healthy!
Cool plane, however for me it's sad because my idol John Denver lost his life in one. Very unique plane. Great flying!
Very important not to run out of gas and make sure you can get to all of the tanks
I was thinking of it. This design isn't good for gliding (no motor)?
@@guardianobserver6593 Actually they glide very well. The Denver crash had a number of contributing factors.
@@slk23
I have read about the strange difficult to reach place of the fuel valve and that the plane was just bought from another owner but still is difficult to understand the causes. I am not sure but I think he was also near (or at the area of) the airport when happened.
As a kid I recall at least one, but I think two, of these that would regularly fly around over my hometown in northeast Wyoming. We loved seeing the "backwards planes!" 😄
I had tickets for Osh... two weeks off... Three days at the field, the rest exploring Wisconsin... Ya know what I'm saying?? Dang-it.
So weird! I’ve got a buddy that’s taking me out for some time in a LongEz this weekend.
No report on the Ez's is complete without a comment on the unique sound on the ground. That pusher prop cutting up the wing wake gives a sound like no other. You don't even have to look up to know that an EZ is coming.
Yes, good point.
one of my favorite videos! I'm still so nervous with radio and you handled that amazingly!
You can do it!
The controllers are there to help
Super interesting.. Thanks for all the effort you put into these videos for us!
I used to see one of these over Cocoa Beach when I was a boy around 1978 - 1981.
It's giving me J7W Shinden vibes. And I love it.
Excellent program today 👍👍
So I have always seen the Long Ez and thought that was a little weird. But it is EVEN WEIRDER than I imagined. That said it is a really cool aircraft and I enjoyed learning about it and watching you fly it.
Friend of mine has just booked a Sling2 for this Sunday. Looking forward to going up in a light aircraft again. Its been years. Boeing and Airbus planes dont count.
Nice video! I heard you on SimVenture 2020. Very cool, man!
Hey, thanks!
love this plane! when i'm taking folks on tandem skydives and one of those are on the ramp tied down I joke and tell people that somebody stole the nose gear!! HAHA love it
"See, the FAA don't get mad when you mess up. They just come take your plane's nose gear. That guy must have really cheesed off the FAA. Been like that for months.
My dad used to have a t shirt that said "I fly a nose dragger" with a cartoon of a Long, sitting as it sits, tied.
Always loved Burt Rutans designs. He went where everyone else was scared to go as far as design.
It was an interesting experiment, but the RV left it in the dust. Easier to build, they fly better and have no weird HQ. EZ looks cooler but that's about it.
@@sblack48 I agree RVs are easier to build since Van's sells kits and the Rutan designs were plans only. Also, the composite finishing can be quite time consuming. But I have disagree about flying characteristics. My VariEze is a dream to fly and handles better than the RVs I've been in.
Stephen Kearney pilots tend to like the last thing they flew a lot. So if you are tuned to the long ez an rv won’t feel comfortable at first. I certainly have never heard an rv owner say a long ez flies better. Post that to vansairforce.net and you will be flamed from every side! What I was referring to was the specific characteristics of a canard. For somebody used to a conventional airplane they can be problematic in the beginning. Many quickies and dragon flys collapsed the canards on the initial flights because the pilots released aft stick after rotation, which is a no-no. Also, they love lots of runway.
Yes, a canard, like the Wright brothers...LOL.
@@sblack48 EXCEPT when you STALL your RV. Not too sure about all the rest of it, either. What is the range of the RV? A Long flew over 4000 miles non stop (modded with a rear tank), flew to 27K feet altitude, and if I remember correctly he might have been THERMALING at the time and he gave up due to being cold, not because the VSI wasn't STILL positive, and on and on. I remember when I looked at kits available at the time, the RV wasn't even in my penultimate cut, but TWO Rutan designs (one an quickie offshoot, actually, the Q200) were.
And there are FAR better kits available than the RV now, from many different aspects. Also, at least at the time I was into the 'sport' (built a LongEZ) I don't remember seeing ROWS of RVs at Oshkosh, like I did the Rutan designs, maybe it was just because I didn't care about them, since they weren't very interesting to my engineering sensibilities, just another standard (but WAY too boxy) configuration, a homebuilt Cessna spam can looking thing, but worse. Nothing against any RV builder, this comment just seriously rubbed me the wrong way, so I thought I'd address it. more or less in the same manner as the original comment. The lots of runway I will give you, but if you don't fly an aircraft in the manner it was intended to be flown, what do you expect about the rest? One of the main points of a Long/Vari is you COULD fly with the stick at the rear stop with NO chance of ending up dead from a vertical spinning nightmare...and yeah, if you fly the RV right, that won't happen, but how many private pilots die due to stall/spins in the pattern? A lot. Will and has NEVER happened in a properly built and CG'd Long or Vari. THAT was one of the major design criteria...and NO other aircraft except a canard (or a computer stabilized one, which in some cases basically just won't let you depart it in that condition) can accomplish that.
As a kid I built an veri Eze not the long between 1983-85 with my grandfather who flew transport in WWII. The Long came out a few years later when people wanted more power and space. Rutan came up with the Eze idea to dominate the long distance endurance races that were a big thing during the oil embargo yrs. He absolutely crushed everyone with the Veri Eze. We built to his max efficiency and my grandfather had s life time of building experience. So we used builder sights shot lines etc. No starter it was hand propped. We ran 180 at 4gph😳. Such an awesome plane. But we only had room for a clean pair of boxers so didn’t do many long trips, but we flew it allot.
Andrew is an awesome guy!
Smile from ear to ear !😁
This was alot of fun to watch. Great video!
Glad you enjoyed it!
thanks mate, tough year i know but thanks for the video
You bet
2021 will be a better year for aviation events. And I do believe you have a version of the the Mobius mustache.
Great video showing Air Adventure last year! It really helps remembering what life used to be, just last year. Thanks
He really respected your flying, and rightfully so. That had to feel super good.
Chops did an amazing job handling the plane.
Nice flight boys!!!
One of my friends has a Long EZ. Amazing airplanes.
I've been waiting for this moment, for all my life......