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EAA Employees To Build a Zenith CH750 E-LSA

What better way to educate our staff about the ins and outs of a homebuilt airplane than to build one ourselves? The project has been launched by EAA’s communities manager, Chad Jensen, with full...

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Launch party! This will be an airplane by Memorial Day 2013!

Today was the official launch of the Zenith 750 EAA Staff build project. Sebastian Heintz and Roger Dubbert were on hand from Zenith Aircraft to “hand deliver” the kit to us. Below is the entire...

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Rudder (s) done, moving on to the HS and elevator!

Build sessions one, two, and three are now behind us, and we have made some great progress! As work continued during our build sessions, the horizontal stabilizer came together with the help of the...

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Horizontal stabilizer finished, elevator work, and even a wing!

Week three on the project brings the horizontal stabilizer almost to a close. A new team member here and there is adding to fun of spreading the joy of building an airplane, and everyone is enjoying...

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Elevator drilling and deburring

This week we concentrated on the elevator work that needed to be done. The Saturday work session was cut short by me because I had to be in Illinois for a wedding that afternoon and none of our other...

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Coming to the end of the elevator

After all the deburring fun had come to an end, it was now time to put the elevator back together, and begin riveting. You can see in the picture above that the steel hinge did not get primed prior to...

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Trim tab and the elevator meets the horizontal stabilizer

With the end of a section of the airplane nearing completion, everyone is excited about moving on to the next part, the wings. Before we get there though, the trim tab and servo motor had to be...

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Empennage done, on to the wings!

Last week we ended our Wednesday session a bit early because we couldn’t find the bushing for the elevator center hinge. I immediately ordered a new one from Zenith, but while waiting for the part, I...

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Riveting wing skeletons

So it’s been a couple of weeks since my last blog post, but we have only worked two sessions since then because of the Thanksgiving holiday last week. Progress has just been outstanding on the wings...

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Skinning the right wing

Skinning the wings is not something I thought we would be doing before Christmas! But because the team skills have built quickly, and we have consistent participation each and every session, being...

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Bottom right wing skin done, flip, repeat.

This entry covers four working sessions over the last two weeks…Skinning the wings is a big step and a big motivator. It’s also repetitive, and keeping focus has to be on the forefront of a builders...

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Right wing, top skin drilling…more work than you think!

The right wing as we left it on Saturday…   The next step was to wrap the leading edge skin (part of the bottom skins) around the nose ribs and strap it all down tight to drill it. This is done very...

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Right wing nearly complete, back to skinning the left

The holiday’s are now past us and we are going full steam ahead on the Zenith 750. The plan to work in one session over the holidays was thwarted by a snow event that wasn’t in the forecast and kept us...

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Back to the left side, and a boo boo…

As you’ll see from the first few pictures, Saturday’s build session was filled with green and gold, and for good reason, but we’re not here to talk about football. ;o) We had some drilling to do! First...

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Wing skin fix and flaperons

As you’ll recall from my last entry, we had a mis-drilled skin that caused us some heartburn, but the great folks at the Zenith factory had a solution. We implemented that solution of drilling new...

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Left wing top skins, making flaperon parts

Our one and only session this week was well attended, despite the un-forecast blizzard-like conditions outside. And while there was a mountain of drilling on the agenda, we got through most of it. The...

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EAA Staff 750 Video update 3

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Weather cancels build session this week

There was no build session due to a snow storm and high winds in Wisconsin this week. Look for an update next week after we work Saturday morning. Chad

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Playing catch up!

Even though the blog hasn’t seen an update over the last couple of weeks due to the author (me)  traveling for EAA SportAir Workshops, the 750 project has been making headway and catching up on some...

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Flaperons almost done, and we have a first flight!

Okay, so not a real first flight, but let me be the first to announce that EAA’s Jonathan Harger has become the first person to fly a piece of the 750! Before that happened, the team was busy finishing...

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