Cozy - homebuilt, canard airplanes, South Africa - Articles

Bill Reeves building a Cozy Mk4 in Tokai, Cape Town.

The control linkages mounted in place on the left wing.

Pieter Saayman building a Cozy 4 in Tokai, Cape Town.

Pieter working on Bills plane, the right hand wing.

Pieter Saayman, Bill Reeves and Tiaan Vosloo are converting a Cessna 150E to Subaru power.

photograph by Pieter Saayman.

The Cessna being washed down.

Read more. updated 14/10/2011.

Rego Burger building and flying his Fish Eagle Cozy Mk4 based in Port Elizabeth.

photograph by Rego Burger

Rego test flying over Port Elizabeth.

Ernie de Goveia building a Cozy Mk3 in Lakeside, Cape Town.

Chris van Hoof's Cozy Mk4 based at Baragwanath.

photograph by Keeton Perkins

Jannie Versveld building and flying his Cozy Mk4 in Krugersdorp.

photograph by Bruce Perkins

Other RSA canard and homebuilts.

The Stobbart - Henshaw Challenge - 11 May 2009. CPT – LDN – CPT

Chalkie Stobbart emerges from the plane after the record flight.

From the Avcom website at the Stellenbosch Fly - in May 2010.

photograph by Starship

Shawn Uren's Longeze being prepared for the days flying.

photograph by Justin de Reuck

Showing off the lines of the Longeze.

photograph by Irene McCullagh

Doing a fly past for all to get a good look.

Marco Schmidt's Velocity on its maiden landing at Baraganath, June 2003.

photograph by Gerard Griessel photograph by Chris van Hoof

What it looks like in 2007. The Schmidts getting around in their plane.

Dave King taxing off in his Longeze after test flying Marco's plane.

photograph by Keeton Perkins

Dave Lister in his Longeze at Krugersdorp.

photograph by Chris van Hoof

Alfons Gessl building his Velocity in Johannesburg.
He has subsquently flown his maiden flight with Dave King as test pilot.