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Originally Posted by J57ltr
You are right, but the statment that a car engine cannot be placed in a plane is incorrect. There are lots of car engines that make into experimental homebuilt planes, including small block Chevy V8's. I don't know what rotary engine you are talking about, did you mean Rotax? The guy that put the 3.8L supercharged V6 engine out of a Supercoupe in his plane (don't remember what it was) came to our board to ask some questions, I told him that I wouldn't recomend it because it's not a reliable engine (or engine managment system for that matter). I don't remember what happened with the project.
Willy,
What type of time frame do you think it will take you to get it finished? I remember one of my Dad's friends had a Long EZ when I was about 12 or so and I thought that was the cats pajamas. I really like the "new" kits they have out now for the sport flying segment. I know it's probably going to be a few years before you get done but that's what hobbies are for. Have fun with it, a lot of it is going to be a PITA and frustrating, but the fun of flying will make up for it.
Jeff
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Zenith Aircraft Co. has organized workshops in Florida that really push a builder to building this plane in a minimal amount of time. From beginning to finish they had one put together and flying in less than 7 days. That's a really accelerated program with experienced aircraft builders guilding 1 individual on the build. A normal person can have the kit done in about 250 to 300 hours total build time. That being said, I'm not building the plane for a hobby, I'm building it because I wanna fly it! If things go well I'll have it finished in less than a year, be even better if I can have the frame put together by sometime this coming spring. I'm not going put in a few hours on weekends, I'm going to put in a few hours every day I can manage to focus after work, and longer build times on weekends.
I'm not a person to cut corners or say something is "good enough" when it will be holding my butt up more than 2000ft off the ground. If I can understand a step in the build, I'll stop and call Zenith for help. That might be one of the first things I end up doing because I'm a little confused on installing the leading edge fuel tanks (exact place where my dad stopped on the build).
I'll post pics when I pick up parts of the kit and finish build steps along the way. Today I managed to build my work table that I'll be using, only took a few hours.