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Finished my streamlined strut covers yesterday. Didn't really see much top end performance increase, maybe 1 MPH. Slow speed handling is much happier though. Stall speed is down and the plane happily climbs at 30 MPH now where before it got a little mushy at about 40 before.
I have the 80 HP Rotax 912 UL, 70 inch Warp Drive 3 blade with nickle leading edges set to about 8 deg. This combination gives me 78 MPH cruising at 5200, 5400 RPM on full power climbout and a top end…
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Added by Bob McDonald on May 13, 2011 at 4:41pm — 7 Comments
I recently attended Quality Sport Plane's Open House and West Coast Zenith Builder Gathering on May 7. Before the open house I visited Christopher Desmond and flew his new STOL CH 701 in the back country. I'll post photos and videos of…
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Today’s pilot has powerful weather tools to help fly safely and sometimes more efficiently. Now if your only going up…
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If you look at the first picture of the side skin layout you will see what I missed. On one of the skins the rivet line for the front HT bracket is off by 16mm Not sure how it happened, of course I didn't discover this until after I drilled the line. 6 hrs work down the tubes! Ah the joys of scratch building. At least I can use the material for smaller pieces. Got the right side skin clamped up, and will remake a 2nd skin next weekend. Press on from there to the next screw…
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Flying the Zodiac in Guadeloupe
Following are a few more great video clips flying in Guadeloupe. This time, the videos are from a Zodiac CH 601, landing at the unique island airports. The first one is landing the CH601 on the Terre-de-Haut Island, which is the largest island that makes up the "…
ContinueAdded by Sebastien Heintz on May 8, 2011 at 7:00am — 1 Comment
The photo assembly guides depict the door window plastic being installed sitting on the work table. Absolutely put the door frame back into the jig before pilot drilling the window to the frame! Finding this out the hard way: door was twisted and would no longer fit in the cabin opening. I was able to reposition the assembly in the jig and re-drill the pilot holes in the bottom edge and forward and aft door frame tubes and salvage the Lexan plastic. The upper hinge and the door side…
ContinueAdded by Don Herbel on May 7, 2011 at 11:33am — 3 Comments
Hello all Roger Dubbert has landed in sfo and is traveling to QSP to be a part of our open hanger day team he will be doing demo flights in our CH 750 so if you have not yet had the chance to meet Roger make your way to Cloverdale CA tommorrow May 7th he would love to see as many Zenith builders and flyers as possible. See our web sight www.qualitysportplanes for the info you might need.
Added by Doug Dugger on May 6, 2011 at 5:14pm — No Comments
The Franklin's had a forced landing in Brownsville Texas on 10 March during a a Air show.
A fire resulted in both of them having 3rd degree burns. Amanda's were over 70% of her body.
She is still at the Brooke Army Burn Center in San Antonio Texas, A fly-in and family day fund raiser will be held at the Neosho Robinson Airport KEOS on 14 May 2011. There will be a Pancake breakfast, Silent Auction, Band and many more activities. All proceeds will go directkt to the Franklin's…
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I think most builders have at least one slow leak tire on their aircraft. On mine its the nose gear tire, it leaks down over a couple weeks while the mains have never leaked. I was thinking about putting tubes in the tires, but that adds extra cost and weight (I assume that is why tubes are not included in the kit?). A fellow builder Bob Stuart (CH701 plans only) suggested removing the valve stem and injecting (syringe) 5 - 10 cc of anti-freeze then installing the stem and inflating the…
ContinueAdded by Bob McDonald on May 5, 2011 at 4:13pm — 10 Comments
Ok, so here is your challenge - a floating airport.
We are seriously considering taking on a disused hospital ship and converting it into a 'Health Education Vessel with Advanced First Responder Capabilities'. If successful, which is more than 50%, we would want to keep the vessel at large the majority of the time, anchored at a number of points along the thousands of kilometers of lake-coast on the largest man made lake in the world. Moving crews and supplies on and off…
ContinueAdded by Jonathan Porter on May 5, 2011 at 1:33am — 15 Comments
Recently my wife (Mary) and I journeyed to Australia in celebration of her 50th birthday. Being long-time EAA members and homebuilders, part of our vacation planning included establishing contact with Australian homebuilders who lived in the regions we were going to visit.
We've always enjoyed meeting fellow aviation enthusiasts. Some of our most enjoyable times have been in the company of aviators who we've met at various places. From small fly-ins at places like Brodhead…
ContinueAdded by Patrick Hoyt on May 1, 2011 at 10:30pm — 7 Comments
Had the opportunity on Friday to get into the air for a test of the new oil cooler.
Lots of traffic and had to spend a lot of time holding short for takeoff, oil temps remained well within limits, Left bank CHT's got a little warmer than I would like but remained within limits. managed to get about .8 hr of flight and landed to check for potential oil leaks. Found one connection that needed tightening and will check it again on the next flight. Minimum loss of oil.
Added by Phillip Owens on May 1, 2011 at 3:40pm — No Comments
Is anyone having issues with the back of the armrest sides being approx 10mm higher the the tunnel top panel when installed.
This problem has been dogging me since joining the rear and front fuselage. All other parts and pieces seem to line up just fine.
Any help or comments would be greatly appreciated.
Leo
Added by Leo Arrigo on May 1, 2011 at 12:50pm — 3 Comments
CH-701 C-GBQX became an airplane on November 1st, 2010. I now have about 36 hours on it. Phase one ended at 25hrs and I have been enjoying giving ride to my friends.
I'm building streamlined strut covers. With my 80 hp Rotax the plane cruises about 78-80mph at 5200 rpm when solo. I'd like to get just a bit more performance out of it. That and maybe a bit better climb on hot days (if they ever get here). I'm hoping to fly it to Oshkosh this year so I need to get these…
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The April 2011 issue of Kitplanes magazine has an excellent article on "budget building." Written by the former editor of EAA Sport Aviation magazine Scott Spangler and featuring Wayne Clagg and his now famous Zenith STOL CH 701 airplane, which was…
ContinueAdded by Sebastien Heintz on April 28, 2011 at 8:00pm — 3 Comments
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