August 2011 Blog Posts (23)

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Zeniths to Oshkosh 2011... Day One

Following are just some of my photos from Oshkosh 2011.  Many of us will remember this Oshkosh fly-in for many years thanks to the "Zeniths to Oshkosh" initiative which included EAA's official "Chris Heintz Day" activities on July 25, 2011, and the…

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Added by Sebastien Heintz on August 2, 2011 at 10:30pm — 3 Comments

My 2011 Oshkosh Experience

What a week Oshkosh was this year!!  I arrived at Whitman Field on the Saturday afternoon preceding the start of Oshkosh 2011.  Since this was our big “Zenith’s To Oshkosh” year, there were already several Zenith aircraft in the three rows of homebuilt parking earmarked for our types.  I parked my 601XL between Andy Elliott’s 601XL TD and Al Beyer’s 601HDS.  For a few days Matt Archer’s 601XL was parked right behind me.  During the week, aircraft came and went, but at the height of the show,…

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Added by David Gallagher on August 2, 2011 at 1:30pm — 8 Comments

Inflight Vibration

FWIW  Went out enjoying the sky this morning. Had not flown in almost two weeks due to it being really hot and storms. 

I felt what I believed to be a slight increase in vibration levels, nothing that really concerned me but I did an inflight mag check at the cruise rpm.  Mag check ok. I landed at a nearby airport to say hello to the staff. My prop had stopped in the vertical position and I repositioned it to horizontal- and heard some noise coming from the spinner. I was able to drop the… Continue

Added by Tony Graziano on August 1, 2011 at 12:42pm — 4 Comments

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