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A 601 crashed near Kenosha WI on the way to EAA Sunday I believe. the aircraft departed Bowman Field in Louisville KY on Sunday

The two on board were found in the aircraft when it was l ...

These are the Avex pulled rivets

I'm doing my wing spars with mostly driven rivets, I'm using bolts in the few places where its hard to get a bucking bar. like under the rib flanges

Larry

Hi guys

Haven't been around much in a while Big life changes, got divorced, but got to keep the plane. Got a new job. and finally I'm back on the build mode treadmill.

I was re -organizing m ...

I went for the same location on each pipe I tried to measure 100 mm on the side of the curve and then drew a band at that location. I then put the EGT probes to the inside of the curve as best I cou ...

Larry,

Struggled this past weekend with the exact same interference from the angle on the existing rear center spar web. I was just on the phone with Caleb at Zenith and after describing the proble ...

Hi all

I'm working on the center spar upgrade section and I seem to be having a brain cramp

I've drilled and fitted all the doublers and I'm at the point in the photo guide where you put the two ...

Yes It was a good Landing and damage to the aircraft looks minimal

BUT!!!!!!

I look like this aircraft was flying without the mod kit.. The "T" shaped pieces are not visible on th ...

So I've got the upgrade kit on hand. I've removed the solid rivets from the center section and the left wing and I've removed the angle on the top of the wing spar.

Soon I'm gonna have to put it al ...

New drawings are up and dated December 9 2009

They do not have the Draft marking on them

Larry Whitlow

Agnos AR NTSB Pics are up

I saw them posted over on the zenith.aero site here

http://www.zenith.aero/forum/topics/ntsb-photos-from-most-recent

My question after viewing them is still the s ...

Ohh Kind sir

All i have left in the interior is the seats Electrical is 99% done I do have to cut install and rig the control cables but they would be in the way right now with the center sectio ...

Things are looking up!! Thanks Gig!!

Larry

I was told (on the phone with Zenith Friday) that there are some errors in the current drawings and the I would not have to drive any solid rivets to d ...

Well I'm a lot farther along than that

The panel in in and wired, the engine is mounted, wired hooked up and except for a fuel line and oil in the crankcase ready to run. I've got the interior unde ...

Hi Paul

By the way thanks for all the useful info you have passed along in the past couple of weeks!!

I'm gonna have to disagree that its premature to be concerned about the home built planes no ...

The attachment of the new angle to the wing spar is up and now I'm curious.

The released drawings show 6-ZU-1-1 being attached by AN3 or AN4 bolts yet the pics on segment 5 show solid rivets being ...

I think I saw the pic you are referring to Paul

What you described as a radiator looks like my oil cooler on the Jabriu 3300. I can see the brackets and what looks like a piece of the rubber baffle ...

Here's the link to the mods

http://www.zenithair.com/news/ntsb-astm-4-09a.html

OK That was faster than I expected.

I do have sympathy for what Chris said in his answer to Question 2 about ...

Questions For Discussion

1. The FAA is saying that the E-AB guys should use the AMD fixes How will we get these drawings and parts?/ I am not a customer of AMD I bought a kit from the boys in Mexic ...

Questions For Discussion

1. The FAA is saying that the E-AB guys should use the AMD fixes How will we get these drawings and parts?/ I am not a customer of AMD I bought a kit from the boys in Mexi ...

Thanks Dave

The fuse covers haven't been installed yet Probably one of the last things I'll do before I fly

Larry

Larry,

Your panel looks great! It is much better than my P-touch label ...