August Meeting, Tuesday August 16 @ 7pm
The
August meeting will take place at Mark and Carla Ewart’s home where they will
share progress on their Cozy. Their address is
Mark just got back from a trip to California tour of a Beech Starship... and some flying in a Piper Archer II. Mark & Carla Ewart
Robert Harm’s Kitfox
Many of us got to fly Robert’s Kitfox at the last meeting. It was very nice of him to allow so many of
us to fly his plane. Special thanks to
Al Muller too for acting as Kitfox flight instructor and demo pilot. I enjoyed my flight in the Kitfox and found
that it handles fine in the air.
However, as a lot of people saw – I need to improve my landing
technique.
People are always talking about putting turbines in homebuilts … and I came across this
The Innodyn turbine, weighs 188 lbs with accessories and cost around 28K new. Models from 160 to over 200 horsepower at the same weight. They want a hefty deposit before producing one for you! Does this sound too good to be true? They flew a supercub with this engine to Airventure but keep putting off delivery dates for customers. Wouldn’t it be nice to run on jet fuel like the big guys. I wonder if this is a converted APU? The company makes it sound like they build the turbine themselves, but it just seems unlikely to me that such a shoestring operation could manufacture all the parts for this. There is a cottage industry of people (homebuilders and hobbyist) that convert GPU and APU turbines for aircraft use. Some “experts” on the web state bluntly that these APU are designed only for very specific duties cycles, temperature ranges, etc… and are not suited to aircraft use. Anyway, I thought this was kind of neat.
Cozy Mark IV Specifications / Performance
Engine--- Lycoming O-360 180 hp.
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Wing Span |
28.1 ft |
Take-off solo/gross |
1200/1700 ft. |
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Wing area |
88.3 ft2 |
Climb solo/gross |
2000/1200 fpm |
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Canard Span |
12.6 ft |
Cruise 75% 8000 ft. |
220 mph |
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Canard Area |
14.7 ft2 |
Cruise 40% 12000
ft. |
185 mph |
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Length |
16.9 ft |
Max. range 75% |
1000 mi |
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Height |
7.9 ft |
Max. range 40% |
1300 mi. |
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Cabin W/H |
42/39 |
Ceiling |
20,000+ ft. |
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Max. front seat |
400 lbs. |
Ldg.Dist.solo/gross |
1000/1300 ft. |
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Empty wt. |
1050 lbs. |
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Gross wt. |
2050 |
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visit us at our next meeting. Contact one of the officers listed below for information about the next meeting.
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Position |
Name |
Telephone |
e-mail link |
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President |
Robert Harms |
713-944-7621 |
none |
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Vice President / Program Chairman |
Valerie Vaughn |
281-412-9817 |
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Assistant Program Chairman |
Herb Cottle |
281-996-8926 |
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Treasurer |
Ralph Mains |
281-471-7353 |
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Flight Advisor |
Albert Muller |
281-480-4461 |
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Newsletter Editor |
Valerie Vaughn |
281-412-9817 |
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Technical Counselor |
Bill Tuite |
713-306-1491 |
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Young Eagles Coordinator |
Robert Powell |
713-962-2858 |
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