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3. 05:54 PM - Re: Re: 750 Cruise vs 701 Cruise. (Gary Gower)
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| Subject: | Re: 750 Cruise vs 701 Cruise |
I'm going with the Jabiru 3300.
Interestingly enough, I got my Zenair newsletter last night and there was an article
by a guy who put strut fairings on a 701. He saw a 6 to 8 MPH increase if
I recall correctly. He was surprised at the results, but it does show how such
fairings can increase cruise speed.
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Bob Simmons
CH 750!!!
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| Subject: | Re: 750 Cruise vs 701 Cruise |
While browsing the picture galleries on Zenithair.com website, I noticed a few
701s with wheel pants. Does anybody know how much this might help with cruise
speeds? Does anybody know which manufacturer they were using?
Just curious. Not sure I'd do it unless it yielded 10 extra mph because of how
girlie it looks.
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| Subject: | Re: 750 Cruise vs 701 Cruise. |
The 701 is NOT-a-hotrod!----Is a great-STOL airplane
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Here one of the builders made a set of wheel pants for his 701, sure that w
ith the fairings in the struts,-the wheel pants and fairings in the fusel
age-strut, wind-strut areas,- he got (testing) -a real cruise of- abo
ut 95 to 98 mph at 5,100 rpm (Rotax 912S). that is about 10 mph more that o
ur- 701 "dirty as the plans" :-)--
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Ours cruise @ -87 to 90- near gross (2 pilots, full tanks-and some lu
ggage).
NOTE: Take off alt- 5,000 ft ASL- our normal cruise alt from 9,500 to 1
1,500 ft ASL.
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BUT- he needed to "repitch"-his Warp Drive prop, and his take off roll
was longer than ours for about 20%-in-our grass strip...- (He wanted
a STOL, not a C150)---
NOW he repitch it back to same take off distance as ours, cruises at our sp
eed (about 90)- and (good news) now increased HIS Gasoline range about 20
%- (same trips as ours).
To get-98 - 100 as before in level flight, he needs to redline-his engi
ne at 5700 !!!- (he did once), so no good.
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So his "Girlie"-701 had a benefit for him at least, not is speed but in g
as range :-)
Is the 701 with a matching colors VW in the Zenith photos.
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Speed, climb and economy is not only fairings, the prop (ground adjustable)
is also very important and limitant.
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Hope this helps.
-
Saludos
Gary Gower.
Flying from Chapala, Mexico-
701 912S- "Macho STOL" :-)- - 240 hrs and counting.
--- On Fri, 1/30/09, FlyGuyTililDie <flyguytilidie@aol.com> wrote:
From: FlyGuyTililDie <flyguytilidie@aol.com>
Subject: Zenith750-List: Re: 750 Cruise vs 701 Cruise
<flyguytilidie@aol.com>
While browsing the picture galleries on Zenithair.com website, I noticed a
few
701s with wheel pants. Does anybody know how much this might help with cru
ise
speeds? Does anybody know which manufacturer they were using?
Just curious. Not sure I'd do it unless it yielded 10 extra mph because of
how girlie it looks.
do not archive
Read this topic online here:
http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=227700#227700
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