Building & Flying a Homebuilt Aircraft - Part 1

[EasternMerchant]

Building a plane is cool! but I wanna learn how to build an Airplane Engine out of hometools!

[fairuzi]

@pilotbill9929 is it possible to change the engine to jet engine?

[Justinross93]

SOO COOOLLL!!!!! great job thank you for posting!

[damian13531]

What the... is that...I could not concentrate for a second on the mans voice, Hell I cccaaant ccoonceNtrATe nowww wrriting either. What sadistic

freak decided to run that noise in the background. I will not honor it with the title of music cause it aint. I just had three seizures in a row. Its as insanely galvanizingly agonizingly intense as the guys voice is boorin.

[pilotbill9929]

The Glasair RG only has 2 seats.

[pilot29902]

I agree....great video series, but the music is unbearable for my brain, ecspecially during dialogue and monologue!!!!

[kirrok]

PLEASE no more music.  It makes it too difficult to hear what you are saying. Other than that, its 5/5 ! Thanks for making. Very well done!!

[kirrok]

Video Up loaders to YouTube, for the love God stop with the worthless 'music' over the *useful* audio, such as dialogue and monologue.

[srswift7]

Great Vido of an perfect building job!

[Peter17226]

It must have been tough to read and understand the plans in order to be able to

know what to do once building the plane. Do you have to be a skilled technician?

[SuperSonicVegetarian]

The Music is giving me an epileptic seizure

[krb944]

its homemade? WOW very good job,best homemade plane iv ever seen :)

[pope007]

Zodiac 650

[pope007]

great video Love it. Can't wait to build our own zeneth with my son..!!

[pilotbill9929]

@pope007 - Great aircraft. Which one are you planing to build - the 701, 750, 801 or Zodiac. Should be a fun propject.

[asmb100]

@pilotbill9929 how many seats do they come in

[bigbadbluntboy]

thats truly an amaizing experience bill

you really got me thinking

[lexichronicle]

why didn't you have a forklift ready for the shipping container? but neato video showing all the steps. i bet as soon as you finished this you wanted to sell it and try your own from scratch. i imagine the guys who work in factories like Cessna's could DIY one no problems, spending all day with their big squeezy icing bags of epoxy resin

[lexichronicle]

has anyone seen that episode of scrapheap challenge where they build two ultralites? and then some stereotypically insane british pilot shouts tally hoe and flys the things?

[deadmanwalkin4u]

@lexichronicle it was on junk yard wars ,i seen that one it was cool

[McClover]

Hey, whats a good plane for a first build? Me and my dad are looking into buying one. Where both working into getting our pilot license, and we want our first plane to be a home built one

[lexichronicle]

@McClover "Where both working into getting our pilot license, and we want our first plane to be a home built one" probably not a great plan

[McClover]

@lexichronicle Haha we flew before lol and my uncle has his pilot license we know how to fly and everything lol but good looking out!

[lexichronicle]

@McClover sorry about that, I thought you were just totally new to it all and planning a homebuild :)

[touchsmart0]

yeah i really dont want to watch this anymore its pretty much a documentry of him buying a plane

[malchiah9090]

No way! That is so cool... I want to make my own airplane.. But im 15 and have no money. and no experience with any airplane :(

lol really nice plane

[antiqueeagle62]

The music makes this very hard to watch...

[Parubhi]

How much did the entire build cost?

[pilotbill9929]

I had $80,000 in it when it was completed in 1988. I flew it for 20 years.

[11chickenlord11]

what about fuel?

[pilotbill9929]

Seven and a half gallons of 100 octane fuel per hour at 12,000 feet.

[freedomzimbabwe]

ITS great to see this vid it is very informative thank you so much I am in the process of getting my PPL & CPL & MEIR & IFR. so you have made me really jelous ; )

Thanks so much I didnt know how the composite was made so that is really intresting!!!!

[superpaco1]

this is very useful and informative!

thanks you!

[QuarkToo]

You are a cool dad.

[SIAMSEARCH]

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[COD5252]

thanx x 10 to the power 1 million, this type of videos are very rare.

[oasiac]

That is awesome!! reminds me of a P-51 mustang.

[MetaView7]

amazing work

thanks for sharing

[airbikebuilder]

Fantastic video. I liked the music. I love building airplanes but I don't think I could do a composite. Rag and tube is more my kind of thing. I really appreciate the time you put into both your airplane and the video. It is nice to be able to see what other guys are building. Helps me keep going on my project.

[chuybregts]

Excellent video, thanks for taking the time to put it together! (the video and the plane!)

[chair5432]

ifr-retractable gear? i dunno if i trust that in a 16k dollar plane lol

[9sectionwhip]

I bet it was a lil more than 16 m8:)

[oicurageologist]

That was very nice. Thanks! Nice video, and great music, I used to play lead trumpet for that piece (it can be played by either violin [in this case] or by trumpet).

[Free07Style]

Excellent!!! Thanks for sharing

[pilotbill9929]

So, Ted, the music was bad, what about the rest of the video? By the way, have you ever created a video? I didn't find any on your YouTube page. Don't have the ability?

[tedstriker754]

Why do so many people add that lame music to their video's on you tube? it's the bane of this site. So irritating.

Glasair III builder.

[sixmagpies]

It's the 'Flight of the bumble bee" and not so lame really, but I know what you mean. Irritating and unnecessary. Lift music would be better.

[elvedin555]

how can someone be bothered i get mad and mental building rc plane hahaha

[inqzwuqggrwur]

elvedin555,

I can equally ask how can someone have so little attention span that they can't stay focused on something as simple as making your own plane?

I make r/c planes from scratch and the personal freedom to make anything I want, how I want is super rewarding... that's why I "bother"

I feel sorry for people like you... you'll never create or invent anything new, how sad

[elvedin555]

send us some pics of ur planes you built bet they are fucked up and dodgy built fly like shit.

[pilotbill9929]

Yes, the skins are premolded with vinylester. There wasn't any signs of cracks in the skins or superstructure when I sold it last year after 20 years and 1400 hours of flying.

[waddsworth]

Do the plans spec vinylester? Its good stuff and fine for boats, but for a plane I don't think I'd use anything other than epoxy.

[superpilot757]

Great video!!! I love all the details and construction photos. Thanks for posting!

[rahj8786]

does the fuselage are all made of fiber glass? or with aluminum? or something?

[pilotbill9929]

The fuselage, wing, vertical stabilizer and all control surfaces are constructed of fiberglass.

[sshapewa]

LONG LIVE CAPITALISM!!!!

[OriginalAtomicSheep]

I think this video is about an aeroplane.

[TheRooster602]

not an obvious connection; communist countries tend not to have home building activity. In Cuba, the Worker's Paradise, you can't even own a boat. Many innovations have come from private parties, like Wittman's landing gear patent (subsequently purchased by Cessna) to SpaceShip One.

The US has a strong tradition of free enterprise/experimentation. Volunteering in EAA is a great way to support those freedoms.

[bunjit1]

They aren't allowed to have boats because they try and leave.

:)

[deeming024]

i want one lmao

[canalorbe]

very nice and instructive. Professional didatic vid!;-)

[alex681219]

wohao!!! five stars! how much it weights and how much hp have the engine?