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dougsnash

Joined: 14 Apr 2008
Posts: 281

Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 5:57 am Post subject: 750 plans availability

John, are you sure about the 750 being available as

plans?  In this day and age and given what happened

with the 701 knock offs, I can't imagine Zenith

offering plans for 750.  Someone mentioned this just

after Sun and Fun but I don't see it happening. 

Absolutely AWESOME if it is true but I just don't see

it.



Another 750 question.  Has anyone heard if the

prototype will be at Oshkosh?  The pictures that were

posted on here a few months ago looked very

interesting.  Interesting enough to almost make me

willing to try building a kit as opposed to scratch

building my next project.  But if the 750 is going to

be available as plans, WOW, I'm in.



Lets all hope.



Doug MacDonald

CH-701 Scratch Builder

NW Ontario, Canada

working on fuel system



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		   I ASSUME that the news that the 750 was also gonna

 be avail as plans built 

 made it to the list ??

 LO&SLO John

craig(at)craigandjean.com
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Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 6:01 am Post subject: 750 plans availability

I spoke with Roger at the Quality Sport Planes open house about the 750. He

said they would be accepting orders for wing (and I think tail) kits at

Oshkosh.



-- Craig



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John Bolding

Joined: 23 May 2006
Posts: 281

Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 6:13 am Post subject: 750 plans availability

I got it from a friend of mine  that spoke directly to Sebastian at Sun & 

Fun about it,  he'll chime in here if he wishes.

Surprised me too.  Hope they don't change their mind.    John



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rbjjr

Joined: 18 Mar 2007
Posts: 36

Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 4:29 pm Post subject: Re: 750 plans availability

Do we know anything about the flying characteristics?  I mean details?  I assume it will have similar performance but are there any numbers?  



I also wonder about engines.  The 701 is so great but that engine is so expensive...



And then there's 20 plus years of history vs. zero.  I know it's a very similar design but this still means something.



I've finished my rudder but may consider the 750 if it's "real"...



Burke Johnson CH701

kmccune

Joined: 22 Sep 2007
Posts: 577
Location: Wisconsin, USA

Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 5:55 pm Post subject: Re: 750 plans availability

The larger size may open up the engine choices a lot. But it still needs a lot of thrust to compete with the 701 capabilities.   Who knows maybe I'll be able to buy a 701 cheap in August after EAA 

I honestly think the 701 will continue as its STOL capabilities are hard to beat and its proven, we will just have more choices.

Kevin



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raymondj(at)frontiernet.n
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Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 10:24 am Post subject: 750 plans availability

Greetings,



        Just got back from the Zenith workshop. I was told that " The Plan" 

was to roll out the 750 at OSH.  The current "Plan" is to offer the 750 as a 

kit and to offer plans.  I built an 801 rudder and purchased a tail kit, but 

I'm waiting to see what happens before I put much more work into the 801. 

The 750 looks like the perfect LSA STOL aircraft to me, or as close as I've 

seen.



Raymond Julian

Kettle River, MN



"Hope for the best,

but prepare for the worst."



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vgstol(at)bigpond.net.au
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Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 12:50 pm Post subject: 750 plans availability

This is great news, and makes good  sense!  All the move toward  ready-built high-cost LSA is getting way out of reach.  The sheet metal Zenith designs are so  well-suited to plans building that it would be a real shame to not have this  option.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"  /> 

  

All the talk of not publishing plans for  the 750 in order to prevent other manufacturers copying the aircraft kind of  misses the point.  If  someone wanted to copy a sheet metal  aircraft like that they’d buy a kit, take those full-size patterns to a CNC  punch, set it up to make identical copies, and they’re in production.  Much easier than working thro  plans.  Not publishing plans is no  protection at all, so might as well provide the plans so that us homebuilders  can have the satisfaction of puzzling our way through  them. 

  

Looking forward to <?xml:namespace  prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"  />OSH. 

  

JG 

  

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larry(at)macsmachine.com
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Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 12:59 pm Post subject: 750 plans availability

Raymond,

If you look at the page describing the 750 on the Zenith site, you'll 

see that they intend to offer it as an LSA, but no plans will be offered.



Larry McFarland 601HDS at www.macsmachine.com

raymondj wrote:

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 <raymondj(at)frontiernet.net>



 Greetings,



        Just got back from the Zenith workshop. I was told that " The 

 Plan" was to roll out the 750 at OSH.  The current "Plan" is to offer 

 the 750 as a kit and to offer plans.  I built an 801 rudder and 

 purchased a tail kit, but I'm waiting to see what happens before I put 

 much more work into the 801. The 750 looks like the perfect LSA STOL 

 aircraft to me, or as close as I've seen.



 Raymond Julian

 Kettle River, MN

dougsnash

Joined: 14 Apr 2008
Posts: 281

Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 2:46 pm Post subject: 750 plans availability

A very valid point JG but keep in mind, how many 701

rip offs are there?  Now, how many 801 rip offs are

there?



For $400.00 they've got a set of plans that they could

base their "new" design on.  Reverse engineering a kit

would likely cost them closer to twenty thousand just

to get the kit.  Very much possible but not as likely

as the $400.00 plans.



As I said in an earlier post, I am very much in favor

of them offering plans.  I would definately get a set

at some point.  I can also understand them wanting to

provide some sort of protection against being ripped

off again.



Doug MacDonald

CH-701 Scratch Builder

NW Ontario, Canada



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--- JG <vgstol(at)bigpond.net.au> wrote:



 	  Quote: 	
		   This is great news, and makes good sense!  All the

 move toward ready-built high-cost LSA is getting way

 out of reach.  The sheet metal Zenith designs are so

 well-suited to plans building that it would be a

 real shame to not have this option.

 

 All the talk of not publishing plans for the 750 in

 order to prevent other manufacturers copying the

 aircraft kind of misses the point.  If  someone

 wanted to copy a sheet metal aircraft like that

 they'd buy a kit, take those full-size patterns to a

 CNC punch, set it up to make identical copies, and

 they're in production.  Much easier than working

 thro plans.  Not publishing plans is no protection

 at all, so might as well provide the plans so that

 us homebuilders can have the satisfaction of

 puzzling our way through them.

 

 Looking forward to OSH.

 

 JG

 

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raymondj(at)frontiernet.n
Guest

Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 3:14 pm Post subject: 750 plans availability

Larry,



I can only say that the staff at Zenith on May 15 told me, in answer to the 

direct question, that the 750 will be available for plans building.



Raymond Julian

Kettle River, MN



"Hope for the best,

but prepare for the worst."



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