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1. 02:04 AM - Re: Slats (JC Gilpin)
2. 07:30 AM - Re: Re: Slats (JohnDRead@aol.com)
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Gday Ernest,
Please don't sell your aircraft until you've given it a chance to prove
itself.
Take those slats off and try it that way before you give up. Hans flew
about 3500 miles on this last trip. Three days down to Tassie and three
back; that's pretty good x-country cruisin'.... We don't feel the need to
go any faster, cause we want a good look at the country below. And
besides, at our age can't think any faster than that..... And wouldn't
want to give up short field capability to be able to land easily on short
private strips. How much STOL do you really need??..... And we want good
wild weather capability just in case, which the 701 does really well. Hans
and mates ran into 40kt winds with mountain waves, but rode it out and
landed safely in wild conditions no problem, due to those excellent flying
ailerons and that forgiving wing. All were flying aircraft with the
original wing with VGs instead of slats, nice and simple.
You can "...have your cake and eat it too..."
JG
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Filling in the slot with tape just makes the airfoil back to the basic
airfoil that has about a 1.3 coefficient of lift. It's the slats that make the
difference. I am at a loss to understand why any of the "Slat Removal
Group" bothered to build the 701 in the first place. Didn't you know it had
slats and what they do?? Slats double the lift of a given airfoil VGs do not
they only make a poor performing airfoil work better. Taking the slats off of
the 701 wing make a completely different airfoil so you have become test
pilots not experimental pilots. The waiver that you signed with Zenith when
you undertook the 701 construction could really bite you in the butt in the
event of a incident! Have fun. All intelligent replies will be answered.
Please read Abbott and Von Doenhoff chapter on slotted airfoils before you
start typing. Happy flying.
Regards, John
CH701 - Colorado - Jabiru 3300
Cell: 719-494-4567
Home: 303-648-3261
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