Proceeding apace, despite some setbacks.

By Bob Fritz

I was interviewing another builder recently, John Deneke, who’s hanging a Rotec radial on the front of a B cker Jungmeister. He made an almost casual comment that we’d spend more time under the airplane than in it. His meaning was clear: You’re unlikely to fly as many hours as you spend building. It caused me to consider the project in light of that ratio; that is, if we spend so much time anyway, why not spend a little more to do it right?

That brings me to the Jabiru. Jabiru distributor Jim McCormick made a comment whose truth I didn’t appreciate at the time: “Anybody can build one of these, but it takes a lot of work to build an exceptional one.” The Jabiru factory owner, Rod Stiff, concurred. “We leave the appearance up to the owner,” he said. From what I’ve seen, I have no reason to doubt it.…

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