Three days of fun installing and running a brand new Jabiru 3300 engine onto a Zodiac XL airframe...
This workshop was a first for QSP, for Jim Mc Cormick of Jabiru Pacific, and for ten Zodiac builders from far and wide who all came together for this weekend. We worked hard, ate well, laughed a lot and took lots of notes and pictures... it was a great success!
Representing Zenith Aircraft kits on the West Coast
Sport-Pilot-Ready Aircraft
by Zenith Aircraft Co.
from Quality Sport Planes, LLC
Quality Sport Planes, LLC
Quality Sport Planes will continue to host similar workshops in the future, also for the Corvair and the Rotax engines. Please contact us at 707-546-6272 for more details, or visit our "Coming Events" web page... (see left menu)
The fully-installed engine ran at mid-day on Sunday; demo flights in the QSP Zodiac were flown daily; instruction with a CFI was offered on-site by Dargonfly Aviation...
The engine arrives in its box...
Brad (left) has help lifting box off engine
Group gathers around the Jabiru 3300...
"Jabiru Jim"
Installing the proper Propellor Hub
Safety Wire... a bit of a chore...
Time for the baffles...
Lots to learn...
3 Zodiacs in front of our hangar on Saturday...
The Dargonfly trainer ->
The Engine Mount goes on...
Brad (proud owner) is pleased! The engine is on the airframe...
The Propellor is on!
Lance flies in with his Jabiru-powered Zodiac XL on Sunday morning...
The oil goes in...
Working on the Cowling...
Fitting the cowl
Moment of truth: It Starts!
Time to eat...
All gone; one last flight in our red Zodiac...
(This workshop
took place on
Sept. 8-10, 2006)
