Exciting Announcement: I got invited to be on a podcast!

Friends,

I've spent considerable time working on my YouTube production quality (still a long way to go). I want to make the content more watchable and exciting, but all in the hopes that the information I present is clear and easily digestible for fellow builders and enthusiasts. I've also been working on my keywords, titles and descriptions to make the information more easily located for other builders. In the last several months, that seems to have paid off! My subscriber list is growing every day, and there is a lot more feedback/discussion in the comments section.

One of the results of the increased exposure is that I was asked to be on the Evadot.com podcast, hosted by Michael Doornbos! Mr. Doornbos is a fellow Zenith builder working on his own 750 Cruzer kit project. In the podcast we talk about our own projects, but also general aspects of experimental aviation and building airplanes in your garage. You can check out the episode here:

Evadot Podcast - Ep. 104: Building Flying Machines In Your Garage

Also be sure to check out Mr. Doornbos' YouTube channel, where he chronicles, among other things, his 750 Cruzer kit build!

I have a lot more pictures and video content coming, so stay tuned!

Cheers!

More delays, but finally back to work.

Friends,

Work and personal obligations have just been non-stop lately. Being able to work on the project has been an impossibility most days. In the last month, I've managed a little shop cleanup and organization, and managed to get all my parts in .063" rough cut. It took about 6 hours total to lay out all these parts onto .063" stock. Later today, I hope to get them filed/sanded down to finish size, and maybe even formed (most of them are flat pieces anyway). The upper fuselage channel is going to be the biggest challenge. It's nearly 4' long and has 3 bends along the length! Here are a few pictures of the layout of parts and the rough cut pieces:

Hard to see with the glare, but the upper fuselage doublers and other parts are nested in this layout:

Although I have electric shears that work well, the jigsaw was better suited to cut out all these parts nested so closely together:

Lots of little parts laid out in close proximity to minimize waste material. If you don't have to remake too many parts, a 1/2-sheet (4' x 6') of material is plenty to do the whole plane.

Larger parts rough cut, to be finished on band saw and belt sander. A few of the smaller parts still need to be separated from each other:

Cheers!