Experimenter

June 2013

Experimenter is a magazine created by EAA for people who build airplanes. We will report on amateur-built aircraft as well as ultralights and other light aircraft.

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It has been said that Steve Wittman, through his air racers and his Tailwind homebuilt, proved conclusively that square corners could be made to go fast. Since Chris Heintz and his sons introduced the STOL CH 701 in 1986 and the STOL CH 750 in 2009, they have proved the same thing in reverse. They have shown that square corners and straight lines can be made to go incredibly slow (30 mph with 100-foot takeoff runs) with their 700 series of short takeoff and landing (STOL) aircraft. And now, Zenith President Sebastien Heintz is proving something equally as important: that he listened to homebuilders. At the Sun 'n Fun International Fly-In & Expo in April, Zenith introduced Photography by Steve Schulte the CH 750 CruZer, a not-quite-STOL version of the CH 750 that, as the name implies, places more emphasis on going places than leaping off in impossibly short distances. Sebastien said, "It's no secret that the STOL CH 750 was centered around two basic features. First, we wanted a larger-than-normal cabin [to fit average Americans]. Second, we wanted to provide the ultimate in off-airport, backyard capabilities through slow speeds and extremely short takeoff and landings. We did that by combining high-lift airfoil wings with highlift devices." EAA Experimenter 15

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