- I keep having to scoot this rat snake off of my driveway. He has a hard time on the blacktop surface.
- Been at this project three years. Today was the very first time I sat in it. Airplane noises were made. #myzenith750
- Okay engineers, anyone have a better method for making a 122mm hole in my wing skin? #myzenith750
- I need to make a YouTube video on things I wish I’d known before I started building this thing. For example, Milwaukee makes a cordless rivet puller that I now own but wish I had bought the first day. #myzenith750
- Not going to build itself #myzenith750
- At 5am in a 33 degree hangar blue flames are awesome.
- It getting old yet? Nope. #tigerbaron
- Managed to get all four flaperons finished up before sunrise. #myzenith750
- Despite marrying a sailor, my wife is known for her mostly PG-13 mouth. Today she was putting a turkey in the oven when she realized halfway through setting a timer that she had forgotten to put the herbs in the cavity. Ladies and gentlemen, present you with Alexa’s capture of my wife’s “dirty mouth”. Sound on.
- The same thing we do every morning Pinky. #myzenith750
- I was super nervous to cut the struts to length. Turns out a metal cutting blade on my miter saw made it a snap. #myzenith750
- Flying an airplane with onboard radar sure is great. #tigerbaron
- My Dad did close to 400 rivets today. #myzenith750
- Calling approach into Beaufort for a 10 degree deviation for “a little weather” was a good call.
- Bill captured my approach in the rain from the right seat. I turned a much closer in base leg than usual to avoid the heavy rain just to the south of the airport. #tigerbaron
- Brake cylinders on the rudder pedals. Check. #myzenith750
- Doesn’t get old. Also, windshield bugs.
- I have 13 vertebrae fused in my spine so laying on a hard surface is pretty painful. But if it doesn’t kill you and all that... #myzenith750
- I have thousands of dollars worth of fancy tools but sometimes the right tool for the job is a six dollar hack saw and some elbow grease. #myzenith750
- Rivet day #myzenith750
- It’s fast enough that it’s hard for the camera guy to focus and keep it in frame, but it sure does sound cool. #tigerbaron
- Designing Avionics components. What else would someone even do on a Friday night?
- Checking off bucket list items faster in the last year than any other time in my life. Royals spring training: check
- I work really fast. Is 4 pots of coffee a lot? #myzenith750
- I have exactly one multi engine flight in my logbook. So the instructor thought my first simulator landing should be with the left engine out. Not too shabby. #pilotthuglife
- The weather outside is frightful....
- Got the RedBird all set up. Pretty sweet
- View from my office today. Beautiful. Then a decent to minimums through this to a fogged in runway.
- Gorgeous day to be an airplane nut
- Morning study time ambiance today
- Caleb is diving in the tank at EPCOT
- Saw this cool trick by Jon Croke of homebuilthelp. When working with large aluminum sheets by yourself, it’s easier to roll them up. Reassembling this wing after all the deburring and prepped work to rivet. Then done with this one. #myzenith750
- I generally like metal work. Prep work is easier if you think “I get to” rather than “I have to”. #myzenith750
- Everyone waits until November and it’s in the low 40s before they power wash the deck right?
- Each spar has 101 holes to be drilled. Then again on the top. Then repeat for the other wing. Oh and since these are pilot holes that need to be expanded I’ll drill each of these holes 2 more times. 1212 holes drilled just for the wing spars. I fully understand the grin people have on their first flight. Gotta earn it. #soreshoulders #myzenith750
- And flip. #myzenith750
- Time for the first two burns of the fall.
- Here we go again with riveting Friday nights.... #myzenith750
- I’m thinking of becoming a weatherman. I called it almost exactly. The hurricane is passing over us right now. This far inland we have light rain one afternoon. Hardly even remarkable for a city that averages 40 inches of rainfall a year. I wonder what all the people in Asheville who hoarded bread, milk and gas are going to do with it all.
- I’m on a “playing the long game with long game kinda people” kick lately. Putting my money where my mouth is. #myzenith750
- It’s light enough that we just carried it on and off the trailer. #myzenith750
- T-28 start up
- Takes 2 hours to put up a free standing 3 hammock rig in a field but makes a pretty cool result. #airventure2018
- Caleb’s always been a metalworking kinda guy. Since I’m making an all metal plane he doesn’t need much arm twisting. Now if the camera man would put down the camera to hold the piece..:. #myzenith750
- Hey, I know that guy on page 24 of Sport Aviation magazine.
- Ingredients to build an airplane include... baby powder??? #myzenith750
- My riveter is prettier than yours. #myzenith750
- Monday evening blues. Doing it anyway. No build no fly. #myzenith750
- Flew through the mountain pass where Chimney Rock is. You can see where the parking lot slid down the hill during the flooding last week.
- Still unsure about these seats :)
- These seats are not too shabby
- Wing delivery day #myzenith750
- Attach the cockpit assembly to the plane day. Woot! #myzenith750
- My Dad and a boat. Life is good.
- I want to do the Zenith logo on my instrument panel (and a couple other places) in aluminum. Test run on hdpe turned out great. #myzenith750 #zenithaircraft #homebuiltaircraft
- The Test carve they include was boring so I changed it to something a little more up my alley.
- It’s alive. Woot. #inventables
- Time to put the fuselage halves together and cover up the arm biting chefs knife features of this plane. #myzenith750
- The only way to do a thousand hour project… One hour at a time. #myzenith750
- Guess which drillbit I don’t have a replacement for? #myzenith750
- About a twentieth of the brush and tree junk in my yard I need to burn.
- It’s time to build the airplanes
- Surprising amount of activity at this pretty remote airport.
- We were “followed” by a phenom jet into Macon County airport. We were out of the plane and almost done refueling before he was on the ground.
- Caleb and I Spent the day helping Jerry with the annual inspection on his Quickie. Not only did the engine not have any parts left over when we put it back together, it even started… #pilotthuglife
- I do love how easy the wings fold on this plane.
- Happened to catch a Zenith 750 on the field today. @zenithaircraft
- Just want to shout out to @zenithaircraft for making the solidworks model available. Taking measurements for creating an @xplaneofficial model of a Cruzer is about 100 times easier now
- Great thing about doing the plane build in the garage is that any free 30 minutes means progress. Will be much harder when it’s too big to fit in here and I need to finish it at the airport #myzenith750
- At the end of the @zenithaircraft banquet last night the guys from Avolution did a little flyby on their way home. Now I want an Eclipse 500...
- Roger showing off the short takeoff of the 750 SD @zenithaircraft
- This unpainted cruiser has the Viking engine that I’m buying. I can’t believe how quiet it is. Standing just 10 feet from it
- The clouds literally parted for 4 minutes where we were today at the exact time.
- Clouds moved out just in time.
- How fun are pancake breakfasts at the airport? Jerry dancing fun. That's how fun.
- I did manage to get Proteus climbing out
- Blue Angels are practicing right on top of us again
- Warbird air show just kicking off
- We're turning so fast I can't even tell we're turning. #somethingaintright
- "That thing sounds like an angry food processor..." #pilotthuglife
- Some of the aircraft maneuvering at today's event felt a lot like my time on aircraft carrier flight decks
- Landing was even shorter. Sheesh
- Now that's a short takeoff. This is the owner of Just Aircraft in SC showing off.
- Darwin just finished building this RV-4.
- Building the baggage compartment this morning. Don't worry, gripping a bulletproof coffee. #myzenith750
- Prototype for skid slip indicator
- I'm super happy with how bright this is. I think It might even be bright enough in full sunlight in a cockpit.
- Landing a Grumman Cheetah from the right seat at Hendersonville with a lot of forward slip.
- When you carry too much speed to the runway you level off... and... float... float... aaaannnddd touch down. Sheesh. Full flight here: http://buff.ly/2pe9j3f #pilotproblems
- Does this count for my airplane's first barrel roll?