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Chris Heintz (21 November 1938 – 30 April 2021) was a French and Canadian aeronautical engineer, known for his kit aircraft designs.

Heintz served in the Armée de l’Air and went on to find employment with Aerospatiale, on the Concorde supersonic airliner project. Later, he worked for Avions Pierre Robin designing several two-seat and four-seat light aircraft for type certification and production, including the Robin HR100 and Robin HR200.

It was during his time at Robin, in 1968, that Heintz started designing his own aircraft in his spare time. He named it the Zenith, an anagram of his last name.

During a number of successive exhibitions at AirVenture in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, Heintz organized building a complete aircraft during the seven day event. Typical was the 2014 plan to assemble a Zenair CH 750, using volunteer labour from show attendees, enlisting 7,000 people to pull one rivet each to complete the project in an estimated 170 hours of building, before the aircraft flew on the last day of the show.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Heintz_(aeronautical_engineer)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenair_CH_200

https://www.planeandpilotmag.com/news/2021/05/04/the-latest/chris-heintz-founder-of-zenair-dies-at-82/

You can tell he’s having fun

Last Edited by Snoopy at 28 Mar 20:13
always learning
LO__, Austria

You can tell he’s having fun

Yep… probably enjoying the aesthetics of the beast

Dan
ain't the Destination, but the Journey
LSZF, Switzerland
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