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314:, a development of the VariEze, with a new canard airfoil. Roncz wrote to Dick to ask him for details, enclosing information he had gleaned from his GU research. Within a few days, Burt Rutan called him. He was looking for someone to evaluate the low Reynolds number airfoils that he had designed for his latest project, the
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two-seat aircraft. Out of curiosity he decided to analyse the canard wing's shape on the computer, which astonished him by revealing that the canard couldn't fly, as it was stalled at all angles of attack. This was odd, as there were around 100 VariEzes actually flying with the canard and its
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After university in 1971 Roncz had no immediate career prospects, so started working as a carpenter for local automotive-related companies before starting to sell his own paintings through local galleries and via the occasional commission. After nine months of this, he began working for his father's
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Composites in the unsuccessful effort to build the Starship, and agreed a five year contract with Roncz for his services. In 1987 Beech terminated the contract with three years to run. Roncz sued and accepted a $ 2.2 million settlement. Despite a good prospect of a jury
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Roncz became interested in aerodynamics theory, and having read some books on the subject, became fascinated by the mathematics behind the theories. He was of course extremely good at mathematics, and began testing the numbers using his calculator. This was extremely tedious work for the multiple
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during the 1980s and 90s. His sessions were always popular for his wit and wisdom. Lecture titles included "The
Aerodynamics of the Flight of Dragons", "Drag Reduction for Aircraft" (as Gemini Technologies), "Can Dragons Fly?" and, with Burt Rutan, a "Tent Talk Show" and "Life, the Universe and
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calculations he wanted to perform, and he lost interest in pursuing it. He did however continue to devour every aerodynamics theory book and paper he could find and soon realised that the newly-invented home computers could relieve him of the tedium of multiple calculations, so he built his own
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The young Roncz was a prodigy, becoming a concert violinist at the age of five, playing with a local symphony orchestra. At the age of 10, after 6 months practice, he moved to the piano, winning a state prize, and had composed a march for his class, and entered national and international piano
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self-launching (motorised) glider. Roncz agreed to do that, and soon found that Burt's designs could be greatly improved by using one that Roncz had devised on his computer. A homebuilder of the Long-EZ built Roncz's airfoil into his new canard, and it proved very successful. Not only did it
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During his time working for Rutan, and after that period, Roncz was doing designs for many other projects. This list of the other aircraft that he worked on is not complete. It also doesn't include aircraft that used his airfoils without his direct input.
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University (GU) airfoil. He then started a great effort to analyse what was happening in the VariEze and discovered how this particular use of the airfoil would work. This sort of work had not been done before in the range of low
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completely solve a serious problem of rain causing a dramatic loss of lift, but it significantly lowered rotation speed and slightly increased cruise speed. Roncz's design has been adopted by many Long-EZ builders.
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into which the VariEze falls. Working night and day, Roncz came up with theories which he tested on the computer, refining them and often finding answers. This hobby turned out to have great consequences.
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in South Bend, where he displayed a talent for languages, becoming fluent in eight modern and ancient languages, including French and Hebrew. As a student at Notre Dame, he studied particle physics and
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built for the US government to test technology for detecting and neutralising short-range ballistic missitles. They were manned by a pilot sitting astride the fuselage for their early flight tests.
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oncz homebuilt project as detailed in Roncz's series of articles in Sport
Aviation magazine running from February 1990 to February 1991. It became the AeroComposites Forte.
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company, engineering special metal parts and discovering, unsurprisingly, that he had a talent for it. In
November 1977 he set up his own company, called
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A variant of the Long-EZ with side-by-side seating and push-pull
Volkswagen engines in the nose and tail developed by David Ganzer, a Rutan employee.
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John Roncz died of cancer on 27 September 2023 in
Lakeville, Indiana, in the South Bend area which had been his main residence throughout his life.
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Over his aerodynamics career, Roncz gained at least eight patents, usually as part of a team of inventors, and gained several awards including:
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personal computer from a kit. He then had to learn to program it, at which he also became expert. By 1975 he had written his first program, for
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models were poorly made, and proposed a better way of making them. With his metal stamping experience, he designed and built a computerised
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and the software to control it, and Gemini
Technologies went on to make models for the university and several other customers, including
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while reading for his honours degree in government and international affairs. At no time in his life did he do any engineering course.
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Some of this list is derived from the guide produced by David
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Roncz completely redesigned the airfoils of the Airfish 2 wing-in-ground-effect (WIG or WIGE) vehicle which was developed from the
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awarding up to $ 10 million in punitive damages, Roncz said that he felt it would be morally wrong to be vindictive.
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for outstanding contributions to the advancement of the design of light aircraft, presented to him by EAA President
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302:(Left to right) Burt and Dick Rutan, John Roncz and Mike Melvill at a Voyager 25th anniversary celebration in 2011.
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The success of this business involved Roncz in a lot of travelling, particularly to
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John Roncz was born to Peter John Roncz and his wife Catherine, nee Scheibelhut, of
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An Engineer's Guide to the Spirit World: My Journey from Skeptic to Psychic Medium
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Mike and Sally both worked at Scaled Composites. Mike was the chief test pilot.
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Lednicer, David (April 1997). "Computational Fluid Dynamics for Sportplanes".
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Published by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, ISBN 9781478221944
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Garrison, Peter (September 1990). "FLOFT: Lofting Fuselages The Easy Way".
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Cox, Jack (October 1988). "Roy Lopresti... on Comanches, Swifts and such".
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Working with Gregorek at Ohio State University he noticed that their metal
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Seeley, Brian A. (September 1988). "1988 CAFE 400 Discussion of Results".
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1145:"John Roncz: Inside story about Rutan designs. Airventure 2011, Oshkosh"
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the 1985 Stan Dzik Award for outstanding airfoil design contribution.
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Gold medal for distinguished achievement in aerospace engineering.
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Roncz had become the go-to aerodynamicist for the homebuilts of
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Davisson, Budd (March 1995). "Edge 540 and Zivko Aeronautics".
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Cox, Jack (December 1992). "The Fighter Escort Wings Mustang".
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Kolano, Ed (February 1996). "The Eagle X-TS Flying Qualities".
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Roncz used his CFD skills to refine the aerodynamics of the
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Cox, Jack (October 1989). "Fred Keller's Prospector STOL".
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Cox, Jack (October 1985). "The Miracle that is Oshkosh".
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Garrison Melmoth 2 N2MU at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh in 2011
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Cox, Jack (July 1984). "Voyager: The Adventure Begins".
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1362:"John Roncz wins suit, gains settlement from Beech".
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Cox, Jack (July 1985). "The Aristotle of Airfoils".
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