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swater6

Joined: 16 Dec 2006
Posts: 52
Location: Minnesota-KMIC/KANE

Posted: Sun May 13, 2007 6:30 am Post subject: New letter from Chris Heintz!! 5/11

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

Posted: Sun May 13, 2007 8:16 am Post subject: New letter from Chris Heintz!! 5/11

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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Posted: Sun May 13, 2007 8:30 am Post subject: New letter from Chris Heintz!! 5/11

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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601 XL kit

Tail, control surfaces and 1 wing complete

soarmoore2(at)yahoo.com
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Posted: Sun May 13, 2007 7:50 pm Post subject: New letter from Chris Heintz!! 5/11

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?

   

  M2



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]

d.goddard(at)ns.sympatico
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Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 1:58 am Post subject: New letter from Chris Heintz!! 5/11

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
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Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 2:23 am Post subject: New letter from Chris Heintz!! 5/11

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?

   

  M2



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  We won't tell. Get more on [url=http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=49980/*http://tv.yahoo.com/collections/265 ]shows you hate to love[/url]

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Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 3:22 am Post subject: New letter from Chris Heintz!! 5/11

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         

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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)  

www.can-zacaviation.com   

  

   

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Gig Giacona

Joined: 10 Jan 2006
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Location: El Dorado Arkansas USA

Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 5:41 am Post subject: Re: New letter from Chris Heintz!! 5/11

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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planecrazydld(at)yahoo.co
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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

Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 7:42 am Post subject: Re: New letter from Chris Heintz!! 5/11

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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