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As an engineer as well I am with you....seen plenty of "pilot approved maintenance" that always makes me cringe....reading some of this has made me understand why!!
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Not "literally" buried in it, no more a way of saying we have no intention of selling this - it will be handed on to kids Farri - getting the block of land and the shed is our goal as well eventually! Living the dream....sorry you lost the 701 to fly though!
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We are working this out over a 5-8 year project plan.... We are going for the CH 750 after discussions with many people about getting into this. We originally intended to design from scratch as my partner is a mech engineer and I have a few aerospace eng mates.... but the aero eng people talked us out of that!! (For obvious reasons....being involved with a new type certification process now I completely understand why....ugh) The CH 750 suits the end purpose (camping trips here there and everywhere) and from a maintenance perspective the thing is dead simple and easy to maintain (VFR, and I can sign any of the maintenance myself) not to mention choice of RAA or CASA....(personally I'm leaning towards CASA but that is only because I know their legislation...more research required of course) As for selling....I'm planning on being buried in this thing or we can just pass it on to our kids! The decision on what to get/make/how has been nearly 6 months in the making so far..... F4U Corsair replica from scratch would be nice, I know someone here building a scale Hurricane from scratch....but I'll be staying away from owning building my own warbird type aircraft....ha!
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No worries - we are in Melbourne, but I work at YLTV during the week... Yeah I have an idea about what is involved (warbirds are a good place to look when it comes to manufacturing parts from scratch ha!)....but I am an engineer long before I'll ever claim to be a pilot! I have spoken to a few people out this way and it is funny the opposing view points from those of us from the aircraft maintenance world to the pilots regarding building from scratch Realistically, I was told not to look at the kit laid out on the ground as it can overwhelm some builders....I looked at it and wondered where the rest of it was, my exact thoughts were "is that all?" - my background is a little different I guess. My partner and I are of the same mindset when it comes to making things and are very excited to get stuck in, we also have the luxury of just being able to order individual parts considered "too hard" or easier to just buy rather than manufacture, but the sheetmetal stuff is simple and straightforward to me...and there are no solid shank rivets! (How easy is that?!)
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No... but I have "scratch built" a few real aircraft now, including experimental parts etc.... ;)
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Thanks! Yeah we have contacted Allan - plenty of information in that guy :) Both of us are engineers so we have that sick desire to build from scratch ;) - we also have a time line and don't expect it to be too easy! (I work for an aircraft manufacturer - and the kit looks pretty easy to be honest, but that is from my perspective hehe) I guess we will see in a couple of years time - be a good test of our resolve, not to mention whether or not we kill each other in the process!
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Cheers, thanks! Out Bacchus Marsh or Melton at this stage. Impossible to get any sort of hangar space here at YLTV Of course we are also considering just getting our own property and sticking a hangar on that "living the dream" so to speak ;)
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Hi there! Just joined the forum to get more information and discuss with others about building a Zenith CH-750/701 (still weighing the pro' and con's of both but the 750 is winning...) I'm not new to aviation, aircraft maintenance engineer for the last 20 odd years, an uncurrent pilots licence and a few other bits and pieces ;) My partner is this project is equally skilled so we have decided to scratch build the thing.... Look forwards to interacting with you along the way! Be prepared...I like to ask lots of questions!!
