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mbima(at)hydro.mb.ca
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 Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 11:10 am Post subject: 701 Conventional Gear ... |
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Notice I did not say "tail-dragger" just to let y'all know I am serious.
How many and who are running the conventional gear version of the 701?
Any issues, problems, benefits?
Thanks
Martin Bima
STOL-Vair
Must make fuselage decision soon….. [quote][b]
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dougsnash(at)yahoo.com
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| Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2007 5:47 am Post subject: 701 Conventional Gear ... |
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Hi Martin, I too thought that a CH-701 tail dragger
would be neat. Conventional gear was an option at the
beginning of the CH-701 series. According to Chris
Heintz (at Oshkosh) they discontinued the option when
they decided A:they weren't selling many, B:the
inherent ground handling risks of conventional gear
(not big deal in my opinion), and C:the conventional
gear did not get off the ground as fast as the trike.
According to Chris, the trike drops the tail when it
is ready to fly and away you go. With conventional
gear you have to get going fast enough to lift the
tail to build up to take off speed and then drop it
back down to give you the angle of attack to initiate
the climb. This is due to the "Inverted Airfoil"
design of the tail.
It's possible that I am miss quoting the reasons but
the basic "it doesn't work as well" statement comes
right from Chris.
Doug MacDonald
CH-701 Scratch Builder
Fort Frances, ON
Working on electric flapperons
Do not archive
--- "Bima, Martin" <mbima(at)hydro.mb.ca> wrote:
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Notice I did not say "tail-dragger" just to let
y'all know I am serious.
How many and who are running the conventional gear
version of the 701?
Any issues, problems, benefits?
Thanks
Martin Bima
STOL-Vair
Must make fuselage decision soon.....
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Don't get soaked. Take a quick peek at the forecast
with the Yahoo! Search weather shortcut.
http://tools.search.yahoo.com/shortcuts/#loc_weather
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