Just completed TOH on my Zodiac with 3300 Jaburi. Actually, this is 2nd toh. Did an early service to correct stuck rings cause by Bing carb & poor oiling system. Corrected with throttle body carb with mixture control.

Recent service was due to burned exhaust valve. Added double ring kit, too. Run in numbers are great.

One area of flying that has very little written about is "haze".There's a lot of stories about flight into IMC that usually center around flying into clouds, rain storms or black hole night experiences. 

However I have learned that haze can be a subtle and deadly situation. The real problem is that aviation weather reports do a very poor job of identifying and reporting on it.

Yesterday was a classic example. I was flying home from Pine Mountain Lake in Northern…

Can anyone explain the bottom half of the 601 weight and balance form? The section that compares forward vs aft CG's? Or share an example? Are we to use the same takeoff wt for both examples? If not, why only one slot for takeoff wt? This one's got me stumped. Thanks, ahead of time!

I finally ran out of things that needed done before first flight of my 601 XL B. The next thing to do was fly it.

Engine is a 2700 cc Aeromax Corvair

Engine installation is my own design except motor mount.

Rotec carb, homebrew intake and exhaust system.

Dual Ford EDIS-6 ignition using single Ford 6 cyl coil pack.

Warp drive 68" prop

Cowling is modified fiberglass Aeromax

No problems or difficulty on the first flight other than the…

Hello Zenairers,

I have an older Zodiak and want to install a low profile windshield on it. They call it the Speedster.

I would love to convers with someone who has flowen the speedster and find out about it's pro's and con's.

I was thinking that i would profere a lower profile than the ones that you see in the pictures on the internet. I understand the cubby hole in the back has to be covered.

I was wondering about the drag and wind noise and the aircraft…

The following article was published a few years ago in Kitplanes magazine.  While all of us may not agree with all of the author's observations, it's shared here to help Zenith builders, owners and pilots increase their awareness of safety issues in operating their homebuilt kit plane.  We invite you to share your comments below.

Flying the Zodiac in Guadeloupe

Following are a few more great video clips flying in Guadeloupe.  This time, the videos are from a Zodiac CH 601, landing at the unique island airports.  The first one is landing the CH601 on the Terre-de-Haut Island, which is the largest island that makes up the "…

As most of you know, American Light Sport Aircrafters have been holding a Tail Section Workshop which runs in conjunction with the Zenith Rudder Worksop each month here at our facility in Mexico, MO.

Each month I am asked if we have considered doing others so it became clear that there are literally hundreds of subjects concerning kit building that could be covered in…

• Here are the paint scheme submissions (photo gallery).

As we're completing our new CH 650 B demonstrator plane, we're…

One of the fun things about owning and building a plane is that it is an on going maintence project. Some planes are famous for the amount of ground hour to flight hours. For example the F15 eagle and other fighters had a 4 to5 to 1 ratio! Meaning 4 to 5 hours of maintenance to 1 hour of combat flight time. With our trusty Zodiacs, I find it to be the inverse 4 to 10 hours of flight hours to 1 hour of ground required maintenance. Now that is value! Now ground…

Hi Everyone

The above map is of a flight by 2 601 XLB.s completed in the the first 2 weeks of June 2010

Some facts about Australia,

Population Aust 22 mil USA 309 mil…