X-Mozilla-Keys:                                                                                 
Bulent Aliev wrote:

Come to think of it the reason Brice may be having trouble with
the fuselage structure is the weight of the stock turbo's on
that three rotor is considerable. If he had to add ballast
in the nose of his Cozy/Velocity type pusher it may have
overloaded the fuselage in bending. Landing loads and stresses would
also be higher. One cannot put in an overweight engine and add ballast
in the other end with impunity.

I have inspected Brice's plane in person. As a Cozy builder myself, I could not
believe it how over size everything was. He had a huge home made windshield, the
interior of the fuselage could sleep four people almost. The nose retract was
extremely robust and I think very heavy. Two radiators on the nose, Home made front
fiberglass high back seats on rails and more. In my opinion it was very heavy and
had nothing to do with Cozy or Velocity, except the prefab wings and Infinity
retract main gear.
Bulent

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