Flying the new STOL CH 750 light sport utility airplane

Zenith Aircraft's STOL CH 750 light sport utility plane is the latest design from Chris Heintz, designer of the original STOL CH 701 and four-seat STOL CH 801 sport utility airplane. The new CH750 design incorporates CH701's amazing short-field capabilities, while maximizing cabin size and load carrying capability allowed under the FAA's new Sport Pilot / Light Sport Aircraft category. The all-new STOL CH 750 design is available as a new easy-to-build kit which revolutionizes ease and simplicity of construction, drawing upon Zenith's decades of experience in the kit industry. Features include: Amazing short take-off and landing (STOL performance); Surprisingly competitive cruise speed; Huge cabin, side-by-side seating, easy access; Spectacular "wrap-around" visibility; Many engine choices: Continental, Jabiru, Rotax, Corvair, and more... Outstanding controls: full length flaperons and all-flying rudder; Great bushplane capabilities, simplicity of a tricycle gear.
Details: http://www.zenithair.com

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[jyokid]

Since this is experimental, is there any reason it couldn't be outfitted with IFR equipment and used as a regular airplane as opposed to an LSA?

[Zenith Aircraft Company]

- No problem if the plane is equipped for IFR and you're licensed for it.

[STOL Pilot]

Great new plane for us sport pilots!

[VdzAk]

This plane has Alaska written all over it!

[macplane]

very good plane

[ramfery23]

holy cow it take off in like 5 meters.

[Imragnar1]

I could have gotten along without the crappy MUSIC. Might have been nice to hear the sounds of the airplane, if this video is real and not a fake. Oh well, Good -BYE most of us grew up before we started flying.

[winter sky]

The inverted airfoil on the horizontal stabilizer has got nothing to do with the engine weight. The function of the horizontal stabilizer is to hold the wing at the required angle of attack . This requires a constant down force on the tail of the plane. The inverted airfoil is more efficient than "barn door"style stabilizers for the same reason wings have the usual airfoil shape.

[Felipe Aranda]

that airplane its yours?

[George Ou]

Just about all H-stabilizers are inverted because nearly all airplanes have a center of gravity that is slightly in front of the center of the main wing (typically aligning with the quarter cord towards front of wings). Because of this front-heavy configuration, the rear wing (the stabilizer) must push down to keep the nose from dropping.

This sounds counter intuitive because one might assume that the second wing should add lift instead of subtracting. But this stabile.

[atreewithnolife]

is it rated for any aerobatics?

[shpian]

All Stabilizers and stabilators are designed to produce negative lift to compensate for ehgine weight. The inverted aerofoil is more noticable in this design.