I purchased Sean Sullivan's Cozy Mk IV project on September 19th 2014. He'd bought a flying plane and found he'd been spending little time on his project. Incidentally, I'd just purchased another set of plans so those will be set aside for awhile.
Sean is local and it only took me about 30 minutes to take a 16' trailer down, load the tub with wheels, canard, wheel pants, epoxy pump, fiberglass, DO pedals. The canopy is currently a one-piece that includes the turtle back and carbon fiber top engine cowl. The leg fairings are also on.
It took a few weeks to continue getting my hangar ready for this project. 3 Paulk workbenches have been built. Several 6 lamp T5HO lamp fixtures are mounted above two of the workbenches.
Tonight (10/6/2014) I ordered:
Jack Wilhelmenson's retractable nose gear ML1-12EHP, Castering nose gear assembly, EZ-RL Rotary Canopy Latch and the TQ-1 Three Lever Throttle Quadrant.
Aircraft Spruce's Chapter 14 material with fresh MGS Epoxy and hardener.
Eureka CNC cut wing foam cores from Stephan James.
Sunday night the center spar jig was laser leveled on two work benches butted together and the work lights mounted. The epoxy pump was cleaned and o-rings replaced. Old epoxy was used to glue scrap plywood together to be used for blocks and weights.
Most of the tools have been acquired but still need a 14" band saw and some smaller odds and ends.
A fiberglass cutting station and a wood cart for scraps remain on the need to build list.
Currently the evening temperature in the shop has been right at 75. A few practice lay ups have been done to successfully fix a few small non-aircraft items.
I'll start posting photos soon.
Blog for building an experimental aircraft Cozy Mk IV (Serial #1675).
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