Long-EZ aileron controls

[@marc-bernardlevesque5016]

The biggest frustration that I have with the ailerons control of my Long EZ is the small looseness that I feel when I move the stick from left to right. Those few thousands of an inch at each add up to a 1/4” at the stick. I always feel that I am like canoeing with a paddle. A little to the right, now on the other side, a little to the left…. I hope you can avoid this.

[@seaa3seaa]

That is pretty neat. Simpler than it seems from the outside

[@Timb0NZ]

Love the side sticks!

[@rafaelgastelu1218]

Buenisimo el proyecto, felicitaciones

[@sky6691]

great

[@LThorsen78]

The offset installation of a rod on one side of a bell crank (Like with the Wing Root Transition) always bothered me but I know it is irrational on this small an aircraft and perfectly safe. Why not double the bell crank there like you did with the aileron torque tube arm - and equal out the side loading on the bell crank and bracket assembly? Adding weight and bad ideas aside, this short but impressive video update is Christmas-come-early for a fan and follower such as myself. When you get the rudders working, please update us again, perhaps something a little longer?

[@mikestimac1640]

Balance.

[@RMSAQIB.]

pls what type of hinches is used for holding the ailerons

[@WalkerWeathers]

I have the plans for an ERacer (very similar) and they call for piano hinges

[@DeksZagreb]

Hi Ary, you are amazing! You are inspiring and your videos are the best so far about building a Long EZ. :) Did you manage to weigh every part you built on a scale so you could compare it to other aircraft? Like, left wing = 50 lbs, right wing = 51 lbs, fuselage = 40lbs, canard = 5lbs, etc. This might allow you an analisys about options how to make homebuilt aircraft parts lighter in the future. There is also a community of homebuilt aircraft on HBA (www.homebuiltairplanes.com/forums/forum.php) which you might find interesting because other people post about their building progress. I've been following your progress a couple of years, excellent work.

[@Triple_J.1]

The aircraft weight is determined primarily by the basic design. The overall size, moments of inertia, material choices, and construction practices have 95% of the influence over empty weight. The builders job is to not add weight unnecessarily. By following the plans and instructions carefully, and being careful especially in the surface finishing and painting to avoid excess weight. And avoiding the addition of endless complexity in redundant avionics and autopilots that belong in a king air, not a small low powered two place homebuilt. To be Honest: that Homebuiltairplanes forum has scarcely anyone of reasonable aircraft designing or building competence. The proof is the evidence that almost none of them have designed, completed, and test flown their own designs. Hardly anyone over there has even completed and flown a plans built airplane that was already designed for them by an expert, and includes instructions. All I've seen on there is endlessly long threads about how to make a lawnmower engine suitable for aircraft use, where 70 pages and a decade later, not one person making all the suggestions has actually bought what costs less than $1000, and can be easily re-sold locally for nearly what they paid, losing almost nothing. Just proving their own advice as an experiment for the sake of aviation. Not one of them. A dozen threads. Hundreds of pages. Ten years. "0" complete finished engines. And the guys who are giving all the complicated mind numbing engineering advice have not even assembled anything that looks like an airplane after 20 to 25 years of labor. And a certain active engineering advice giving member pretty much ruined their own project about half a dozen times with countless blunders that cost hundreds, if not thousands of additional hours. Partly because they suck at life. And partly because they attempted to engineer down to the Nth degree to save an extra 2.7lb here and 1.25lb there, so they chose an exceedingly complicated construction method that nobody who actually wants to complete a project in a lifetime, has any business attempting in their own garage. Im exceedingly harsh on them for the fact they all sot around and complain. And talk mad trash about Burt Rutan himself. His designs. His construction methods. How he screwed them all up and never made anything that was a success. Etc. Etc. You see that nonsense, you should run.

[@DeksZagreb]

@@Triple_J.1 Good point, Justin. I've seen a guy carefully build a homebuilt aircraft with full attention to details and weight saving. Vacuum bagging, sanding all the extra stuff, double and triple analysis how to save weight. The finished aircraft was flawless. Perfect. However, it weighted only 1% less than all others who built it according to specs, but without too much neat-picking. In a couple of years, the builder sold it and the new owner had a case of tough luck hitting a mole hole upon landing. The HBA forum is interesting because it often shows some new stuff which we don't usually stuble upon when reading the usual news. Like, unusual designs. Sure, most of them are trying to reinvent the wheel, but you gotta admit it is often fun to see an old design wrapped in a new package. Remember the Icon? A friend of ours from Canada was waiting for years to get, and then waited more to get the deposit back, after realizing it is not as flyable as advertized. In the end, we all love to get back to basics. Every time I fly my friends Cub, it gets the kid smile back on my face.