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Hey, Steve.  I finally have purchased the metal for the build!  The best place I found was from Zenith itself.  I have been working my tail off getting my shop cleaned up. I'm building my table and will start the build itself as soon as I have my bending device assembled.  Will keep you posted.  Thanks, again, for the great help and inspiration.  Ron

Steve: I owned a czech built 701 that had flanged seams and it gave the plane a professional apperance.When I started my 750 construction I asked Zenith about flanging and their opinion was that it was not worth the time and effort. I decided to experiment and found that it takes patient experienced hand to get a consistent flange so I gave up the idea. Try it.

KenB

Steve been thinking about our phone coversation and would like to come down for the air show and spend a day with you in the shop call me on the house phone 270/773-3254

Im willing to try to get the wind screen for you if i can ron.       ps. eve are best for me because i'm still running to close up loose ends of wife's passing

Hi Steven,

Thanks for your comments. As I can see, you're gertting there yourself !

Keep at it and you will eventually get there !

Nice work and great pictures too !

Norm

Thanks Steve

Your site looks great and looks like you do nice work, great.  Your little helper is having fun to. 

I am just getting started and mostly just making part now.  I started building the Zodiac but put it on the back burner for now and building the STOL 750 first.   It's all good!

Hi Steven,

Thanks for your comment. Yours looks good too. Keep at it. Buildong it as an ultralight, experimental or ???

Nice work with the wings - they look very well done!

Norm

Steven,

I take a look around this website every few days, but very rarely go to my own page. I only found your comment today, a month later. When we got our airworthiness certicate, Bill Anderson, our local FSDO told us welcome to the "3 Percent Club". Then we inquired what he was talking about. According to him, of the people who start a plans-built project, only 3 percent see it through to completion. I knew the number was low, but I didn't realize that it was that low. I figured 10 or 15 percent. I am a fairly patient person, but the thing that helped me tremendously was some advice from an old friend. He said not to think of it as an airplane project because that can be overwhelming at times. Look at it as a long series of individual projects that have measurable progress, that just happen to become an airplane when completely assembled. The key is to work consistently, even if it is just trying to figure out how to accomplish the next step. You may not see much progress yourself, but as friends stop by to check up on you, they will notice. From the pictures on your page, it looks like you are well on way to completion, keep up the good work. Flying an aircraft that you built with your own hands is satisfying beyond description. It took me 13 years to build, and I've been flying it since May of 2010. I've put 120 hours on it since then. I will have to admit that I do miss the building in a lot of ways. Might have to do it again.

Good luck with your build,

Dennis Hutchinson

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