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It is hard to believe that it is nearly one month since the annual pilgrimage of the faithful came to an end. We are all back in Ghana, and busy getting ready to start 4 more girls from the bushlands on a 4 year programme of learning to fly, build and maintain aircraft, run an airfield and use a computer...as well as drive a tractor and a truck! …
ContinueAdded by Jonathan Porter on August 28, 2012 at 3:20am — 4 Comments
On August 17 2012 Jabiru issued JSB 033-1. The subject is Piston Circlips. There are two types of circlips: type A and type B imentioned. The type A can cause engine damage and have been installed in some engines. The serial #s of the affected engines and a piston kit with invoice dates 10-Oct 2011 to 28 June 2012 are listed on the 1st page on the service bulletin. The affected engines have to be disassembled and type A clips replaced w/ Type B clips.
Added by charles hughes on August 27, 2012 at 10:17am — No Comments
This is a very interesting question, especially if your engine shows signs of overheating while inflight...
I built a CH701 and, for the engine package, I decided to go with an auto conversion done by a pro.
The engine is a Subaru EA-81 reworked to produce 105hp at 5600rpm. It came with its matched redrive and it works pretty good.
The preferred water cooler for this setup is a radiator from a diesel VW Rabbit/Golf but I was told that something else,…
ContinueAdded by Normand Lambert on August 23, 2012 at 1:00am — No Comments
Put the horizontal stabilizer issues aside and concentrated on the elevator assembly yesterday. Rib assembly is built and cleco'd. Tips are drilled but need to do some sizing on the hinge pins. Got the rear channel assembly built and installed. Should finish elevator next weekend. Will then resume work on the stabilizer. Looks like I'll be able to use A5 rivets where I have had some rivet removal damage, thus saving me from having to purchase a new stabilizer skin!
Added by David A. Judkins on August 20, 2012 at 7:07pm — 1 Comment
I really like reading trip reports, so here is my first trip report of hopefully many more. I have flown many cross country trips before but they were in my Beaver RX550 ultralight. This trip was the first long(ish) flight that we have taken with our CH601XLB. It was almost a year ago that Dave, Glen and myself bought this 601 from Howard Parr. Howard lives in Regina,…
ContinueAdded by Joe Harrington on August 19, 2012 at 8:00pm — 8 Comments
Drilled and clecoed my right wing top skin yesterday. Today I turned the wing over, jiged it up and drilled the bottom skin. Rechecked all measurements with main spar at 9 degrees and both spars centered bubble level. All measurements were exact except one spar tip was off 1mm. I just can't seem to get anything perfect!
Added by Jim Palmer on August 18, 2012 at 9:14pm — 11 Comments
Here's a preview of our planned activities for the upcoming Open Hangar Day and Builder Fly-In Gathering.
This year we're celebrating the 20th anniversary of Zenith Aircraft Company, and this will be our 21st annual event! Plan to join us on …
ContinueAdded by Sebastien Heintz on August 15, 2012 at 5:00pm — 2 Comments
Several of the members of EAA chapter 1230 (based @ Nut Tree - KVCB) planned a trip to the tourist town of Solvang in southern California. I was invited to join in.
The town of Solvang does not have an airport, however the town of Santa Ynez near by does have a nice one (KIZA). You can rent a car at the airport by prior arrangement.
We flew in to Santa Ynez on Friday. On Saturday we went wine tasting at a few of the many nearby wineries. Saturday evening we…
ContinueAdded by Stephen R. Smith on August 15, 2012 at 10:30am — 3 Comments
Added by Zenith.Aero on August 14, 2012 at 9:35am — 1 Comment
After realizing I have rivetted the wrong side of the stabilizer first, I drilled out the rivets and removed the skin. At first, I thought I was going to be able to salvage everything, but upon closer examination, it is obvious to me that I have to replace the skin as there is too much hole damage in some areas from removing the rivets. It looks as though the spar and ribs are ok. Putting the stabilizer aside for now and starting on the elevator. May try to pick up a new skin at Open Hangar…
ContinueAdded by David A. Judkins on August 13, 2012 at 4:30pm — 4 Comments
Added by Gordon Watkin on August 12, 2012 at 5:59am — 2 Comments
February 14, 2013 Update:
We've posted updated X-Plane flight simulator files for both the STOL CH 750 and now for the Zenith CH 650-B! The new files take advantage of great new flight simulator technology and are optimized for X-Plane X (version 10.20) which now support 64-bit computing power!
Let us know what you…
ContinueAdded by Sebastien Heintz on August 11, 2012 at 9:00am — 23 Comments
Les Goldner (701 builder/pilot) and his wife planned a two week flying trip into the Idaho back country. Les and I belong to both the Petaluma EAA chapter and the Santa Rosa, CA EAA chapter. We fly together from time to time.
Even though it was "his trip", Les let me plan the route from Santa Rosa, CA to Boise, ID. I chose a little low-level desert flying in Nevada from Carson City (CXP)…
ContinueAdded by Stephen R. Smith on August 10, 2012 at 12:00pm — 12 Comments
I do not want to cast aspersions on anyone, but Steven might have been lucky during his mountain flying. I have flown over the Cascade mountains, the Rocky Mountains, and such many times. The fellow in the Cub was also lucky. Here are some tips offered "free of charge".
Before flying in the mountains, get some introduction from an expert. Mine was my dad, who among other things, flew the Hump in WW II, accumulated…
ContinueAdded by William R Arnold on August 8, 2012 at 7:06pm — 1 Comment
When my wife and I first visited ZAC years back, Shirley suggested me to buy the pneumatic riveter. I did not need one, I believed. Simple hand riveter should be OK with me. I would not do too much building/re-building anyway, since I'd…
ContinueAdded by Chumphol Sirinavin on August 7, 2012 at 10:48am — 5 Comments
Began the final assembly of the horizontal stabilizer this weekend. Finished riveting the rib assembly and started to lay the skin on for the final time to begin riveting. But in an act that I can only attribute to carelessness or stupidity, or both, I layer downed and riveted the top side first. When I tried to pull the skin over the gussets, I realized I was in trouble. There is no way I can do it. I will try drilling out the rivets and salvage what I can, but my first attempts resulted in…
ContinueAdded by David A. Judkins on August 6, 2012 at 7:14pm — 5 Comments
Hi folks,
I´m about to bend the H-tail feather spars to my plans built 750. The manual gives me a dl for the stabilzer front spar blank of 141mm while the flanges are 20mm and web 107mm. As I suspected the dimmentions didn´t add up when I ran a test piece. I ended up 3 mm short on the web after compensating 1mm for each of the flanges. The next time I tried, I had the web + flanges -2mm compensation for the bend radii (107+(2x20)-2=145 dl) now I am 1mm on the plus side on the web. All…
ContinueAdded by Ralph E. Wishart on August 4, 2012 at 2:34pm — 3 Comments
Added by Ron Lendon on August 2, 2012 at 10:07pm — 7 Comments
Here's the follow up report on a successful 2012 EAA AirVenture "Oshkosh" Fly-In Convention. Attendance appeared to be good, with strong interest in our aircraft. We enjoyed meeting with both new and old Zenith builders!
Zeniths at AirVenture 2012 - Summary Video Clip:
Flight to Oshkosh: Roger flies the Zenith CH 650:…
ContinueAdded by Sebastien Heintz on August 2, 2012 at 7:00am — 2 Comments
Hi everyone been a member for a while first post so here we go I have 601xlb built in AMD Eastman Ga almost 100 hrs nose wheel and rudder is still hard any ideas are redesign thanks DVB
Added by David Bolden on August 1, 2012 at 7:49pm — 1 Comment
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