Current Progress

<body stylesrc="current.htm" background="starry.jpg" bgcolor="#000000" text="#FFFFFF" link="#00FF00" vlink="#FF0000">   <p><embed Width="2" Height="2" Src="midi/lucyin.mid" AutoStart="TRUE" Loop="TRUE" Controls="FALSE"></p>  <h1 align="center">Bruce's Current Progress on his Zodiac</h1> <p>The plane was completed and had its first flight in 1998. As of 4/18/2011, I have 665 hours on it. <ul> <li>For a good laugh check out my <a href="log.htm" target="_top">Builder's Log</a>, which includes the many mistakes I've made to date... </li> <li>Here are <a href="opinion.htm" target="_top">my opinions</a> on the quality of the Zenith Kit and why I chose it. </li> <li>For more information on my Zodiac, click <a href="myzodiac.htm" target="_top">here</a>. </li> <li>For a list of Most tedious task, Most used tools, etc <a href="most.htm" target="_top">see here</a>.</li> <li>For photographs and commentary of the construction, <a href="#Photographs">see below</a> on this page.</li> <li>For a thumbnail index of all the construction photos, <a href="pix_frame.htm" target="_top">click here</a>.</li> </ul> <p align="center"><img src="in_air.jpg" align="left" hspace="0" WIDTH="367" HEIGHT="224"> Here she is! See below for actual construction pictures.</p> <p><br clear="all"> <br> </p> <p>You can skip to <a name="Photographs">photographs</a> of the <a href="#CRATE">Crate</a>, <a href="#RUDDER">Rudder</a>, <a href="current2.htm#ELEVATOR">Elevator</a>, <a href="current2.htm#STAB">Horizontal Stabilizer</a>, <a href="current3.htm">outer wing panel</a>, <a href="current4.htm">center wing/landing gear</a>,  <a href="current5.htm">fuselage</a>, <a href="current7.htm#ENGINE">engine</a>, <a href="current7.htm#PANEL">instrument panel</a>, <a href="currenta.htm">interior, weighing the plane</a> or of the <a href="current10.htm">plane flying</a>.</p> <p align="center"><img src="slidbar.gif" WIDTH="398" HEIGHT="4"></p> <p><img src="crate.jpg" align="right" hspace="0" width="328" height="276"><a name="CRATE">Here is a picture of Bruce and his plane in its $490 crate.  It was delivered by Roadway trucking to Portland, and to my garage by way of a local delivery company.  The delivery cost was $374. I'm told the crate weighs 600 lbs. </a><br clear="all"> </p> <p align="center"><img src="slidbar.gif" WIDTH="398" HEIGHT="4"> </p> <p><img src="shelves.jpg" align="left" hspace="0" width="398" height="286">Everything unpacked from the crate, except for the wing and fuselage skins (in a separate 4x8 ft shelf suspended from the ceiling of my garage), the canopy and the fuel tank (in my bedroom closet), and four 1x1x3 ft cardboard boxes full of rivets, the brake system, wing ribs, and a myriad of small metal parts.<br clear="all"> </p> <p align="center"><img src="slidbar.gif" WIDTH="398" HEIGHT="4"> </p> <p><img src="rudder1.jpg" align="left" hspace="0" WIDTH="362" HEIGHT="255"> <a name="RUDDER">The rudder internal skeleton, already primed with Variprime self-etching primer. </a></p> <p><br clear="all"> </p> <p align="center"><img src="slidbar.gif" WIDTH="398" HEIGHT="4"> </p> <p><img src="rudder3.jpg" align="right" hspace="0" WIDTH="348" HEIGHT="235">This is the rudder assembled with clecos. </p> <p align="center"><br clear="all"> <img src="slidbar.gif" WIDTH="398" HEIGHT="4"> </p> <p><a href="current2.htm">More construction photos...</a> </p> <p><a href="index.htm" target="_top">To First Page</a> </p>  </body>