About The Project:

The airplane is a home-built, scratch-built Zenith CH 750 STOL. Building from plans/blueprints is a challenging way to build an airplane, since most of the parts you use to build it are not prefabricated. I chose the Zenith CH 750 STOL for its rugged design, its STOL (Short Take-Off and Landing) characteristics and its aluminum construction. Zenith Aircraft Company has designed this airplane so that it can be built from scratch or from a kit by the average person. They provide excellent technical support for both kit and scratch builders. In addition, I'll be installing a 1965 Chevrolet Corvair 164 cid horizontally opposed, air cooled, 6-cylinder engine, with special conversion parts to make it suitable for airplane duty. This is what the airplane will look like when I'm done, although I'll have a different paint scheme:

Follow my progress below!

Sunday, November 29, 2015

Cutting My Wing Spar Webs

I should have posted this before the picture of the cut blanks below, but I had lots of video editing to do.

Preparing to cut:


Cutting:

Observations during construction:

Final Layout:

I also drilled the lightening holes, but did not film the process. It was a 2-person job using the drill press and feeding the material, so rather than fool around with video camera angles and footage quality, we just concentrated on making good parts. I'll post a few pictures of the spar webs with the lightening holes drilled out. It took about 3 hours to drill and de-bur them (18 holes in all for the spar webs).
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