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1. 07:16 AM - Re: Crash (ZodiacGermany)
2. 08:35 AM - First Flight Pictures of N73EX (George Race)
3. 09:02 AM - 601/650 Horizontal Tail Builders video (Jon Croke)
4. 09:21 AM - Re: First Flight Pictures of N73EX (Gary Ray)
5. 10:58 AM - Re: First Flight Pictures of N73EX (TxDave)
6. 12:18 PM - 601 XL plan upgrade to 650 set $125.00 (Andrewlieser)
7. 04:20 PM - Canopy flashing? (Dr. Andrew Elliott)
8. 04:24 PM - Re: First Flight Pictures of N73EX (leinad)
9. 05:17 PM - Re: Canopy flashing? (LarryMcFarland)
10. 05:47 PM - Re: Canopy flashing? (Bryan Martin)
11. 07:57 PM - Re: First Flight Pictures of N73EX (Ron Lendon)
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I visited the Zenith booth at Oshkosh and was impressed with the 650 and new latch.
I will for sure update to new canopy and latch. From what I gather, the latch
is much over designed. The bar connecting the two latches is very tougher.
it seems that Zenith put a lot of thought into this.
As to the Dennis crash, I cannot understand for life of me why anyone would want
to open the canopy when aircraft was flying fine. That is quite unbelievable.
Thank god that they landed without more damage. I just cannot understand what
pilot was thinking. Open the canopy in any fast aircraft and you will be in
trouble I think. There have been accidents in Germany with other type aircraft
with canopy opening. However, I have never heard of anyone purposely opening
the canopy in flight. Unbelievable.
One thing that I find good is that Jay stated that his side of the canopy was open
about 2 inches. This is good to know because if I forget to latch one side
of my canopy properly, I can reassured that the other side will not open. I do
not know if I can say that with my present canopy latch system that was built
by Czech company. I hear reports of other Zodiac aircraft in Europe flying
very well with canopy open. It sees that its all about flying speed slow and focusing
on the flying. Not trying to close canopy and forgetting how to fly. Unbelievable.
Again, thank God that accident was not worse.
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| Subject: | First Flight Pictures of N73EX |
Below is the address of pictures of my first flight in N73EX.
Building and flying your own airplane is an experience of a lifetime, and a
life long dream coming true for me.
Barb, my wife, says I can't seem to get the smile off of my face!
The address for flight pictures is:
http://www.mykitairplane.com/chat/
If you want to see pictures of the building process you can go to:
http://www.mykitairplane.com/MyCH701
Thanks for letting me share this with all of you, friends are so great to
have.
George
N73EX
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| Subject: | 601/650 Horizontal Tail Builders video |
Its now ready!
The 601XL / CH650 Horizontal Tail double DVD video volume from
HomebuiltHELP is now being shipped.
Info is available at: http://homebuilthelp.com/CH601XL/Htail.htm
The last major assembly to be published is for the Wings... and we
expect this out in about a week or so.
Thanks to all!
Jon
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| Subject: | Re: First Flight Pictures of N73EX |
George
Congratulations:
Your aircraft and airstrip look really nice. I would like to have the
airstrip in my back yard also, especially with the 701.
Gary Ray , 601XL, WW Corvair
davgray@sbcglobal.net
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From: George Race
To: zenith-list@matronics.com
Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 11:34 AM
Subject: Zenith-List: First Flight Pictures of N73EX
Below is the address of pictures of my first flight in N73EX.
Building and flying your own airplane is an experience of a lifetime,
and a life long dream coming true for me.
Barb, my wife, says I can't seem to get the smile off of my face!
The address for flight pictures is:
http://www.mykitairplane.com/chat/
If you want to see pictures of the building process you can go to:
http://www.mykitairplane.com/MyCH701
Thanks for letting me share this with all of you, friends are so great
to have.
George
N73EX
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| Subject: | Re: First Flight Pictures of N73EX |
Way to go, George! Looks like you did an outstanding job building N73EX. Keep on
smiling.
Dave Clay
Temple, TX
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| Subject: | 601 XL plan upgrade to 650 set $125.00 |
This may have already been discussed but I've been off the board due to life for
a while but I just spoke to Zenith and they told me anyone interested in upgrading
their set of 601XL to 650 plans need only pay $125 and email them they
would inform you on how do it. Since I have only (almost) completed the rudder
$125 is money well spent for the experience and lessons learned! Again sorry
if this is old news but I thought it worth a post.
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Andrew Lieser
S/N 6-7045
http://websites.expercraft.com/andrewlieser
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| Subject: | Canopy flashing? |
Perhaps I missed it in the plans or the builder's guides, but I can't
find any information on how to affix the outer flashing to the canopy at
the fore and aft ends.
In my plane, because of the curvature of the fuselage, the fore and aft
ends of the flashing, after being cut to match the line of the canopy,
stick out quite a bit from the side of the fuselage.
What is the "good" way to get these ends to adhere to the canopy line?
I can carefully bend the sheet so it is pretty close, but it still seems
to me that I need some kind of attachment, perhaps a 3/32 rivet, at the
pointed corners to avoid problems.
Other ideas, comments?
Thanks,
Andy Elliott, Mesa, AZ
N601GE (registered)
601XL/TD, Corvair, finishing...
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| Subject: | Re: First Flight Pictures of N73EX |
George,
Way TO Go! And thanks for all the encouragement you'll supplied in our Monday
evening chats. You built and flew you're own plane man!
Dan Dempsey
do not archive
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Scratch building XL with Corvair Engine
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| Subject: | Re: Canopy flashing? |
Hi Andy,
The forward end of the flashing can be secured by a small aluminum rivet
in the same fashion as the current 650 canopy, or you can use a recess
head screw with a nylock nut on the inside. I curved the trail edge
enough to get it to pull in and it's held with adhesive. On the trail
edge that slides against the rear top skin and bow, I placed a patch of
felt fabric to keep the knife edge from dragging on the skin edge and it
saves the paint!
The rear rubber trim captures a small segment of the flashing as well.
http://www.macsmachine.com/images/canopy/full/trim&flashing.gif
http://www.macsmachine.com/images/canopy/full/flashends.gif
http://www.macsmachine.com/images/canopy/full/canopyncowl.gif
Larry McFarland 601HDS at www.macsmachine.com
Dr. Andrew Elliott wrote:
> Perhaps I missed it in the plans or the builder's guides, but I can't
> find any information on how to affix the outer flashing to the canopy
> at the fore and aft ends.
>
> In my plane, because of the curvature of the fuselage, the fore and
> aft ends of the flashing, after being cut to match the line of the
> canopy, stick out quite a bit from the side of the fuselage.
>
> What is the "good" way to get these ends to adhere to the canopy line?
>
> I can carefully bend the sheet so it is pretty close, but it still
> seems to me that I need some kind of attachment, perhaps a 3/32
> rivet, at the pointed corners to avoid problems.
>
> Other ideas, comments?
>
> Thanks,
> Andy Elliott, Mesa, AZ
> N601GE (registered)
> 601XL/TD, Corvair, finishing...
> *
> *
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| Subject: | Re: Canopy flashing? |
I glued the rear of mine down with the same weatherstrip adhesive I
used to glue the rubber trim on and also glued the trim on over the
edge of the flashing. This might work on the front also, but mine has
an aluminum flashing along the front edge that is overlapped over the
side flashing.
On Aug 22, 2008, at 7:14 PM, Dr. Andrew Elliott wrote:
> Perhaps I missed it in the plans or the builder's guides, but I
> can't find any information on how to affix the outer flashing to the
> canopy at the fore and aft ends.
>
> In my plane, because of the curvature of the fuselage, the fore and
> aft ends of the flashing, after being cut to match the line of the
> canopy, stick out quite a bit from the side of the fuselage.
>
> What is the "good" way to get these ends to adhere to the canopy line?
>
> I can carefully bend the sheet so it is pretty close, but it still
> seems to me that I need some kind of attachment, perhaps a 3/32
> rivet, at the pointed corners to avoid problems.
>
> Other ideas, comments?
>
>
--
Bryan Martin
N61BM, CH 601 XL,
RAM Subaru, Stratus redrive.
do not archive.
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| Subject: | Re: First Flight Pictures of N73EX |
Bravo George!
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Ron Lendon, Clinton Township, MI
Corvair Zodiac XL, ScrapBuilder ;-)
http://www.mykitlog.com/rlendon
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