Project Bird

I have been meaning to put up this blog for some time, for bragging rights and hopefully as an aid for other builders, but also to document the build for the SAAA - the sporting aircraft association of Australia. The aircraft will be registered in the experimental category - if I succeed in finishing it.

On Thursday 12th April 2012, the kit arrived at "the fish cave" - a secret location deep in the bowels of a giant freight forwarding warehouse that is secure and private location for the build where I leased a little space from the friend who runs it.

The box was almost undamaged despite the usual rough handling by forklift drivers we lost a rudder skin. The kit is beautifully packed by Zenith with every sheet metal part carefully wrapped in miles of brown paper.

The bottom skid on the box had failed and the side joint had split. The rudder skin had slid into the gap and found a couple of nails....

I built a worktable and some shelves.

On 20 April at 12.03 am I said a silent prayer to the Gods, I found the parts of the rudder frame and began to learn about aircraft sheet metal.