"Gig Giacona" wrote in message ...
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Howdy,

The Zenith Aircraft CH701 is a neat little two place STOL machine that
employs
leading edge slats that are permanently deployed. Top speed for the
little
machine is 95 mph.

Any idea of how much faster it might be if the slats were removed?

Anyone ever tried this?

thanks,
tom pettit

I'd ask over at the Matronics Zenith list or even search the archive. Who
knows it might not fly at all.


It will not fly at all. The leading edge slats are the proper airfoil
and with out them the leading edge of the wing itself won't cut it.
There are two ways to get around this. One is to modify the existing
slats to make them retractable, kinda like Pegasus did in Canada. The
draw back to this is if you get into some turbalance and one deploys
and one doesn't the plane is close to uncontrollable. Or keep them in
a fixed position and on known long distance cross country flights take
some helicopter tape and seal off the top, bottom or both openings.
Just remember that the spectacular take offs are disabled doing this.

Ben Haas N801BH Zenith 801 builder...