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I've given up planes and taken up Harley's. The kit is almost finished and available if you want to make an offer.

A link to many photos below.

Gig,

As you posted in 2008:
"For those o ...

thats not a design flaw build a build flaw, which is what I think will be the conclussions to any future wrecks as well as pilot error.

Juan

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I 'speculated' as such back in 2008. The pro ...

"While the NTSB presumably doesn't have to give anyone a heads-up on anything, it is disappointing that Zenith "wasn't ahead of the story" on this at all, even if it may not have been ...

If you're talking to me, Matt is just an on-line pseudonym (sorry). While I am a researcher with a doctorate, this is not my field.

Regarding holding the money and/or finding an engineer (if t ...

Hello No-name (unsigned messages),

Please, Lets hold on a minute. First there is no Official Confirmation about a wing failure in this particular accident

For reasons some people such a ...

I'd
still contend that people that stay with the plans and and build
strictly to the drawings are never going to see a problem. If you read
the ntsb records for the 601 of recent, you'd probabl ...

If Zenith had any sense of responsibility they would ground the XL fleet (insofar as they can advise) pending further review of this problem (meaning until the problem is found and dealt with...no mor ...

Some of you people seem to be happily willing to go down in a 601XL just to spite everyone else.

Chris Heintz et al need to go an personally inspect these airframes. Burt Rutan flew out and inspec ...

The single rotor turbo is not bad... 2.8 - 5.6 gph

Not too many years ago there was a small US-based viable single rotor rotary engine being developed. I would suspect that one of these t ...

Already having on-hand a C-85, I called Zenith about using it in the XL. In summary, I was advised that I probably wouldn't be pleased with the performance. At the same time, I was told that this wo ...

Not to rain on anyone's parade here, but I'm gonna wait to see what the guys at Zenith have to say before signing on to pay an outside source to review the design.

While considering the 60 ...

Having built several of those test wings as well as having participated in failure analysis, I am just left with a "bad feeling" that there is some crazy little sensitivity to a particular ...

To my recollection, NASA has a long history of screwing up nearly
everything they ever did.

Well, hopefully Paul will lend his considerable talents to NASA to assist in the fixing the myriad of ...

While I also question the need, an alternative fan that would move a fair amount of air would be a marine bilge blower fan, had from West Marine for about $30.

Edit/delete...found the answer to my question.

I'll flog the dead horse with my take. I chose to build a 701 instead of 601XL over this issue. I considered a 601HD but found that the 701 was close enough to 601HD speeds to suit my needs. I've ...

Did it cross your minds that Zenith's price is just too much in the first place. I think that $995 for two very thin walled 10 gallon tanks is a little over board. I had two brand new ones and so ...

As a side point, I think it petty that these people should charge money for such simple things as VGs. Why not just share the idea and give instructions for other builders (ie in the spirit of the mo ...

Tail flutter video:

http://www.vibrationdata.com/Animation/Twin.avi

I felt the HDS was wimpy enough(relative to RVs), but now there may be potential for the wings to fall off the XL?

Hasn't the RV-8 shed a few wings?