THe
Zenith Zodiac is a two place side-by-side LSA ready sport plane that has really
gotten some attention lately. They have a nice looking design and they offer
a quick build kit that seems to be a reasonable option for those of us who
live under the constraints of retirement (or self imposed -read wives) budgets.
Canopy is mounted and up, Instruments are installed. This
thing is beginning to look like an airplane. June 2006.
The glass instruments in the panel are from Dynon Avionics, take a look here.
Charles
said they hope they can have it flying by Sept. 2006. The red gas can
and the paint bucket are just for a little balast. This is a Tri-gear or nose-wheel
airplane. It depends on having the weight of the engine to hold the tail up
off the ground.
Another
view, Canopy down, Landing gear is installed and the tail feathers are on.
You can see the slot for the main wing spar attachments just in front of the
gear leg. You can see by the picture below these guys are really making some
impressive progress.
Here's
apicture of what the airplane will look like when they're finished. I don't
know if Jim and Charles have planed for a paint scheme but this one looks
pretty good to me.