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Zenith "no hinge ailerons"

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cheapracer

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Some of you know that Zenith for sometime now on the CH601 and CH650, have been using the actual skin of the aileron as the flexible member to act as a hinge.

Now it's been around for a while, couple of thousand planes out there, and seems to offer reliable service (I wasn't looking to re-has the early CH601 wing spar failures), so it seems to work.

I am curious what others think about it, for example I guess I have flexed too many pieces of aluminimun til they went soft and snapped, and in short time to, so i have this mindset that this will do the same, does it concern you, what preventitive measures would you take if you built one similar etc?

Explaination and testing cycle results here ..
http://www.zenithair.net/design-and-application-of-the-zodiacs-hingeless-aileron/

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