When I purchased N131JF from Jesse back in 2000, the fuel caps were not equipped with either grounding braid or tethers. Although the fuel caps on a Long-EZ are outside of the prop arc (and even more so since I now use a Catto prop, which has a smaller d… more »

The nose wheel on a Long-EZE is a small-diameter wheel more usually used on taildraggers (which makes sense, since the Long-EZ is essentially a reverse tail-dragger with a castoring nosewheel). This wheel is part of a more marginal part of the plane; t… more »

When I first started transition training on the plane in August 2000, we suffered a brake failure on the ramp at Marco Island. This was caused by a caliper piston o-ring failure. The failed o-ring was replaced. Since both o-rings had originally been in… more »