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maarten versteeg

Joined: 15 May 2007
Posts: 37
Location: San Antonio

Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 8:21 pm Post subject: Right wing completed

Hello All,



I am plans building the 601xl wings and have just completed my

first (right) wing after starting on the wing with the rib form

blocks on 10/22/06. Plans building takes it's time but I have

learned a lot and except for the welding of the tanks and the

fiberglass wing tips made all parts myself.

The resulting right wing has the aileron with trim attached but

the flap has been removed. Further on the wing has a tip light

and strobe (no electronics), landings lights and the heated

AOA/Pitot tube. Internal surfaces have been treated (especially

the contact surfaces) with ZnCr. The total assembly weighted in

at 39.0 kg (or 86.0 lbs).



- Maarten, San Antonio TX

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Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 9:15 pm Post subject: Right wing completed

Maarten, just wondering, did you install trim, lights, pitot etc. on the right wing for weight distribution purposes? 



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Terry Turnquist

601 XL-Plans



Maarten Versteeg <maarten.versteeg(at)swri.org> wrote:[quote] --> Zenith601-List message posted by: Maarten Versteeg 



Hello All,



I am plans building the 601xl wings and have just completed my

first (right) wing after starting on the wing with the rib form

blocks on 10/22/06. Plans building takes it's time but I have

learned a lot and except for the welding of the tanks and the

fiberglass wing tips made all parts myself.

The resulting right wing has the aileron with trim attached but

the flap has been removed. Further on the wing has a tip light

and strobe (no electronics), landings lights and the        Be a better friend, newshound, and  [quote][b]

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Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 1:25 am Post subject: Right wing completed

Hi Maarten,



Are you planning to add the power supply for the strobe at a later time?



The strobes supplied by ZAC include a separate power supply for each 

strobe light.  This allows a short set of wires between the flash 

tube and power supply which is advantageous from a radio noise point 

of view.  Perhaps the single supply approach works well too, but it 

would certainly require shielded wire to the flash tubes.



Paul

XL fuselage

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At 09:20 PM 5/9/2008, you wrote:

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		  the wing has a tip light

and strobe (no electronics),

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maarten versteeg

Joined: 15 May 2007
Posts: 37
Location: San Antonio

Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 7:48 am Post subject: Right wing completed

Hello Terry,



With the trim and pitot yes, I assume that many times I will

be flying alone and even if I have a passenger she (he) is

likely to be lighter.In that case any mass on the right side

will help. I have a heated Dynon pitot so I can keep the

option open to certify for IFR without opening up the wing

(if I ever want to pursue an IFR license).

My plan is to have lights on both sides to I can wire up a

wig-wag light to have a create a good visibility for my craft.

I have had so many occasion where the ATC indicated traffic

that I never saw against the city background that I want to

go for good visibility.

The second spar is now on the table so I officially started

the second wing.



- Maarten, San Antonio TX

    601xl plans building wings

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 Maarten, just wondering, did you install trim, lights, pitot etc. on the right

 wing for weight distribution purposes? 

 

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Ron Lendon

Joined: 10 Jan 2006
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Location: Clinton Twp., MI

Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 8:26 am Post subject: Re: Right wing completed

I'm right there with you Maarten,  I just started my second wing also.



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maarten versteeg

Joined: 15 May 2007
Posts: 37
Location: San Antonio

Posted: Sun May 11, 2008 10:06 am Post subject: Right wing completed

Hello Paul,



I selected the nova electronics wing-tip light units, these

have a central control unit and shielded cables from that

unit to the two wing tips. I weighted the EMI causing radio

noise and requiring a shielded cable versus the additional

weight in the wing tips and decided for the central unit.

The Nav lights in this setup are both LED based.



- Maarten



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 Hi Maarten,

 

 Are you planning to add the power supply for the strobe at a later time?

 

 The strobes supplied by ZAC include a separate power supply for each 

 strobe light.  This allows a short set of wires between the flash 

 tube and power supply which is advantageous from a radio noise point 

 of view.  Perhaps the single supply approach works well too, but it 

 would certainly require shielded wire to the flash tubes.

 

 Paul

 XL fuselage

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maarten versteeg

Joined: 15 May 2007
Posts: 37
Location: San Antonio

Posted: Sun May 11, 2008 10:16 am Post subject: Right wing completed

Hello Ron,



I just don't have such a nice electronic logbook, my book

is an old fashioned notebook with some of my pictures glued

in it. Looking back in the book I see that I started the

first form block in November 2006, but I actually started

placing ribs in the right spar in October 2007. So I should

be able to complete this wing before the end of the year.



- Maarten



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 From: "Ron Lendon" <rlendon(at)comcast.net>

 

 

 I'm right there with you Maarten,  I just started my second wing also.

 

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