September 03 2023

Drilled the spar.

Built the strut attaching point. Used a long flexible drill to drill wholes on the side.…

September 01 2023

Clecoed the whole bottom side of the wing

August 31 2023

Levelled the wing skeleton using shims.

Clecoed the wing outbound bottom skin.…

August 29 2023

Finished the wing skeleton. Started the wing bottom skin.…

August 15 2023

Started building a wing. Clecoed the skeleton. Flattened a nose rib flange to fit the spar better.…

August 11 2023

Build a foldable flapperon rack and stored the flapperons on the attic.

One screw per leg. Two screws total. The legs rotate and pinch the horizontal bar. No glue. No special value. Just for fun.…

I have been looking for some time for an affordable device that will provide protection from overvoltage should my alternator fail. This device made by Olsen Technologies is affordable ($149.00) and easy to install. It is designed to short out the resettable breaker in the alternator field circuit when the voltage from the alternator exceeds 16volts.

I am going to purchase one and bench test it before installing . It can be purchased from Earthx batteries or the Olsen website,…

August 10 2023

Added flapperon arms and L angles…

August 09 2023

Fabricating and drilling the inbound flapperons L angles. I used the method described in the Homebuilt Help. Used the flapperon arm as a conductor.

Added flapperon tips.

Riveted the flapperons.…

August 01 2023

Deburred and covered with cortec the right outbound flapperon.

July 31 2023

Stored the stabilizer and the elevator on the rack.

Clecoed the right outbound flapperon skeleton.…

July 30 2023

Riveted the elevator.

My riveter head is too large to get inside the cradle. I used a nut as a shim between the rivet head and the riveter.

Tuned the servo. To make the range +20 -40 as per the drawing I had to set the distance between the trim arm pins to 119mm. Very close to the recommended 116.

Changed the way the safety wires on the piano hinges are set. It is the way the safety wire is set on the Zenith demonstration plane. See the last image,…

July 28 2023

Riveted the stabilizer tip ribs. Drilled the stabilizer tips. The angle between the tip rib and the stabilizer is good enough I believe.…

July 27 2023

Sanded the plastic stabilizer tips to make edges flat.

By a reason I cannot understand the parts C75T1-11 tip rib do not have predrilled holes in my kit. The Assembly Manual assumes they should be.

I send an email to Zenith and talked to Roger on Oshkosh.

Yes, it is an error. The holes should be there. But instead of asking Zenith to fabricate and send me the new parts I decided to drill them. After all it is a part of fun.

I draw a 10mm line from…

Zenith Aircraft Kit Building Workshop Returns to Florida: December 1 & 2, 2023

Zenith Aircraft Company is returning to Florida in early…

I made a post on this topic somewhere in the blogosphere earlier and now I can't find it.  So, I will try again here.  I am looking at purchasing a circa 1997 "hangar find" Zenith 601 Kit (does not include an engine or the finishing kit).  A local EAA technical counselor who has assisted with two Zenith 601 projects advised me about a wing spar AD.  The wings are complete and in a cradle.  Looking around at all the places I can think of I cannot locate any information on the wing spar AD.  I…

This is my first post. I'm in the Kansas City, Missouri area and have been to Mexico, Missouri and flown in the factory plane on a demo ride. I like the 650 (low wing) and am interested in upgrading to that kit. I currently have a hangar find 601 circa 1997. The wings and stabilizer are complete, and fuselage is partially finished. No engine. I'll add some pictures in another week once I get everything out of the packing boxes. My Dad and I have built a Quickie (a Rutan design) back in the…

Thank you to everyone who visited and participated at the 2023 Zenith Homecoming / Open Hangar Days & Fly-In,

making this 32nd annual event the best one yet!

• Photos and videos of the 2023…

July 22 2023

A storage rack. It was designed to keep the wing. Since I do not have the wings yet I store the parts already built. It has enough room for the wings too.