Experimenter

March 2013

Experimenter is a magazine created by EAA for people who build airplanes. We will report on amateur-built aircraft as well as ultralights and other light aircraft.

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Just about everyone at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2012 was doing Dennis Butler of Houston, Texas, a disservice by referring to his Cozy III (more precisely a IIIP) as an "enlarged Cozy III," even though that's what he calls it himself. Most people don't take into consideration that when you grow an airplane from a two-place to a three-place-plus and enlarge it 10 percent overall, what you get is a totally new airplane; very little from the original design transfers directly. So, what we should be crediting Dennis with is not building a modified Cozy, but rather creating his own design Photography courtesy Dennis Butler within the Cozy format. This is far from being as easy as it first appears. Born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts, Dennis, EAA 300656, was into technology and building early in his life, and when he graduated from Boston Technical High School, he went directly into the Air Force. "When I got out of the Air Force, I went to University of Massachusetts in Boston and got a degree in physics," he said. "Then I went on to the University of California and got a Ph.D. in astronomy and astrophysics." EAA Experimenter 13

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