The Zodiac 601 is quite nice. At our local airport there is a 601 and the 2 owners were hesitant to fly it at first. But looking at the 601 it is easy to fly out side the flight envelope and over stress the aircraft. - easy to exceed VNE (can be done straight and level well before full throttle is achieved) - easy to exceed VNO (Max Normal Operations) - easy to exceed the "G" loading limits. For all the aircraft that have had accidents we don't know if they have been over stressed or if the control cable tensions were correct.
There are a lot of 601's flying and if you fly within the envelope and keep the correct tension on the control cables it should be fine. The guys who own the local 601 have done close to 100 hrs with several long cross country flights and it is performing admirably. They have been in some real rough air and just back it off, it is flow very conservatively and they check the cable tension regularly. I would still rather have a KR2S :-) Regards Barry Kruyssen k...@bigpond.com http://www.users.bigpond.com/kr2 RAA registered 19-3873 Australia -----Original Message----- From: krnet-bounces+kr2=bigpond....@mylist.net [mailto:krnet-bounces+kr2=bigpond....@mylist.net] On Behalf Of Tony King Sent: Tuesday, 28 July 2009 8:28 AM To: KRnet Subject: Re: KR> Re: KRnet Digest, Vol 351, Issue 216 The question of wing strength in the KR came up from someone misreading a post a few days ago by a fellow wanting to move to a KR instead of the Zodiac 601 he's currently building. There have been several crashes of 601s attributed to structural failure of the wings due to flutter in the ailerons if the cables aren't correctly tensioned. This builder is now afraid to fly his 601 and posted to KRNet looking for a KR project as an alternative. Cheers, Tony King Brisbane Australia
