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swater6
Joined: 16 Dec 2006 Posts: 52 Location: Minnesota-KMIC/KANE
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Posted: Sun May 13, 2007 6:30 am Post subject: New letter from Chris Heintz!! 5/11 |
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For those of you with access to the builders pages, there is a new letter from Chris addressing the recent crashes. As a recap, he is still confident in the design the testing that has been done but he is doing the testing again to confirm.
He also has some interesting note to those now flying.
Here is the link: http://www.zenithair.com/news/c-heintz-5-10-2007.html
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Kevin Bonds

Joined: 09 Jan 2006 Posts: 171 Location: Nashville, Tn
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Posted: Sun May 13, 2007 8:16 am Post subject: New letter from Chris Heintz!! 5/11 |
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Wow. CH is a good dude. I'm glad that the factory is being so proactive
about this. This is responsible business practice and the sign of a smart
designer. In our litigious society one is not accustomed to such public
statements after an accident.
Kevin Bonds
Nashville TN
601XL Plans building.
http://home.comcast.net/~kevinbonds
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p.mulwitz(at)worldnet.att Guest
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Posted: Sun May 13, 2007 8:30 am Post subject: New letter from Chris Heintz!! 5/11 |
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Thank you Scott.
That letter tells me that Chris is once again looking for bugs in the
XL design. That is the best news I could have hoped for. I believe
if there is a problem in the design he will find it.
Paul
XL fuselage
At 07:30 AM 5/13/2007, you wrote:
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For those of you with access to the builders pages, there is a new
letter from Chris addressing the recent crashes. As a recap, he is
still confident in the design the testing that has been done but he
is doing the testing again to confirm.
He also has some interesting note to those now flying.
Here is the link: http://www.zenithair.com/news/c-heintz-5-10-2007.html
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Tail, control surfaces and 1 wing complete
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soarmoore2(at)yahoo.com Guest
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Posted: Sun May 13, 2007 7:50 pm Post subject: New letter from Chris Heintz!! 5/11 |
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Listers:
Did anyone else note the "+6/-3" g listed in the new CH letter? All the literature I reviewed/have in my pre-purchase info package lists the rating as +/-6g. Am I missing something here?
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swater6 <waters.scott(at)comcast.net> wrote:
[quote]--> Zenith-List message posted by: "swater6"
For those of you with access to the builders pages, there is a new letter from Chris addressing the recent crashes. As a recap, he is still confident in the design the testing that has been done but he is doing the testing again to confirm.
He also has some interesting note to those now flying.
Here is the link: http://www.zenithair.com/news/c-heintz-5-10-2007.html
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Tail, control surfaces and 1 wing [quote][b]
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d.goddard(at)ns.sympatico Guest
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Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 1:58 am Post subject: New letter from Chris Heintz!! 5/11 |
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Sorry Mike, no I didn't. I went back and looked again, and cannot find any
reference to a 6g figure at all. In fact the only "g" reference I saw in the
letter says "The present Zodiac XL S-LSA model is stressed to an ultimate 3
g at 1,320 lbs."
Dave,
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planecrazydld(at)yahoo.co Guest
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Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 2:23 am Post subject: New letter from Chris Heintz!! 5/11 |
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I noted it and wondered the same...it is still there
http://www.zenithair.com/zodiac/xl/specification.html
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Mike Moore <soarmoore2(at)yahoo.com> wrote:[quote] Listers:
Did anyone else note the "+6/-3" g listed in the new CH letter? All the literature I reviewed/have in my pre-purchase info package lists the rating as +/-6g. Am I missing something here?
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swater6 <waters.scott(at)comcast.net> wrote:
[quote]--> Zenith-List message posted by: "swater6"
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Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 3:22 am Post subject: New letter from Chris Heintz!! 5/11 |
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AMD ZODIAC
[b]PERFORMANCE[/b]
(AT GROSS)
[b]CONTINENTAL 0-200 (100 HP)[/b]
SPECIFICATIONS (STANDARD)
[b] [/b][b]CONTINENTAL 0-200 (100 HP)[/b]
CRUISE SPEED (TAS)
130 MPH
CABIN WIDTH
44 INCHES
STALL NO FLAPS (LSA)
51 MPH
EMPTY WEIGHT
770 LBS
STALL WITH FLAPS
44 MPH
GROSS WEIGHT
1320 LBS
RATE OF CLIMB
1,000 FPM
USEFUL LOAD
550 LBS
FUEL CAPACITY
30 GAL
DESIGN LOAD (ULT)
+6/-3 G
ENDURANCE
5.5 HRS
SERVICE CEILING
12,000 FT
RANGE (MILES)
715 MILES
WING AREA
132 SQ. FT
The +6 -3 spec is for the Continental 0-200 equipped SLSA available from AMD.
The +-6G is for the Jabiru/ Rotax / lyc kit plane offered from Zenith
Mark Townsend
Can-Zac Aviation Ltd.
president(at)can-zacaviation.com (president(at)can-zacaviation.com)
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Gig Giacona
Joined: 10 Jan 2006 Posts: 1416 Location: El Dorado Arkansas USA
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Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 5:41 am Post subject: Re: New letter from Chris Heintz!! 5/11 |
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I'm looking at the cover page of my set of 601XL plans S# 4959.
"Design Load Factor (Ultimate): +/- 6 G (at) 1,300 Lbs.
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Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 7:16 am Post subject: New letter from Chris Heintz!! 5/11 |
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ashontz

Joined: 27 Dec 2006 Posts: 723
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Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 7:42 am Post subject: Re: New letter from Chris Heintz!! 5/11 |
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I'm happy to see he's investigating it. I don't want to see any lawsuits come out of it either. I hate that she-ite.
Personally, I think the wing could benefit from extra ribs. It's good to see that he acknowledges that it is possible to break the plane (as any plane will break under extreme conditions), I just think some extra ribs in there would do wonders even for those extreme conditions, not that I intend to explore those conditions.
Kevin Bonds wrote: | Wow. CH is a good dude. I'm glad that the factory is being so proactive
about this. This is responsible business practice and the sign of a smart
designer. In our litigious society one is not accustomed to such public
statements after an accident.
Kevin Bonds
Nashville TN
601XL Plans building.
http://home.comcast.net/~kevinbonds
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