Wings and Control surfaces – painting
Another short update on my 650 build – More painting of wings and moved the turn buckle units for elevators to hell hole area – thanks to other builders for this suggestion Also was able to finish painting the controls … ailerons and flaps… only thing left is bottom side […]
Fuselage and wings painting…
After completing some basic rigging of Elevator and Rudder cables, its time to start the primary painting using “Roll and Tip” method…I am using EX Epoxy single part top coat after cleaning bare metal with alodine mix … Lot more work to do still but lets take a break for […]
Engine mounted, Canopy frame installed
Miscellaneous items installed including Engine, Canopy frame, Zenith gascolator, Canopy latch etc…
Rudder installed and GTR Radio installed
Rudder unit – aligned, installed and painted Garmin GTR 200 radio installed and tested.
Jabiru Engine components FWF
Let me start today’s update with sincere thanks to Nick Otterback for sharing the Zenith 650 firewall forward assembly manual – Got it printed in color today and rest of the evening was a breeze to work with on firewall forward components for Jabiru install on my Zenith 650 Checked […]
Avionics installation
Quick update for the day for my 650 build I believe next steps would be to think about wiring for these avionics followed by firewall forward installs
Instrument panel installation…
After brief hiatus – started back with my 650 build. This time its with instrument panel. Installed (and removed later) GRT EFIS , Auto pilot rose , Elevator trim indicator, Garmin GTR 200 with its mount in last two days Next is to install all basic avionics items such as […]
Autopilot trim tabs…
A small update on my 650 build to close the long weekend – installed the tabs for autopilot on elevator and ran the needed cables to the belly of the fuselage. This is part of Aircraft Automation super eco auto pilot unit that uses tabs on control surfaces 🙂 This appears such […]
Instrument panel …
Excited to say, my instrument panel cut out to some specific dimensions from sendcutsend.com came in today and it fit like a glove.. Obviously next things for the weekend is to wrap up the landing lights acrylic cover on the wing nose skin and on to the instrument panel setup ..
Left wing assembly and more …
An update on my 650 build – this time it’s about left wing and its control surfaces
Right wing setup and ready …
Made some good progress on my 650 build over last two days after a week off due to travels … Next steps include aileron completion and wing tip with led light installation
Right wing with controls – all set…
I think I can say with some comfort that my right wing is all done , riveted and ready to be installed on to fuselage
Miscellaneous items installed…
Installed Fuel valve (which later was replaced with Andair valve), center console, Strove and Nav lights and Magnetometer…
