Ken Welter is still flying his rotary powered Coot. He has
now based it in the San Juan Islands north of Seattle so he does
not have to drone up in it all the way from near Portland Oregon  where
he lives.

Ken web site is temporarily down but here are a bunch of pictures.

Paul Lamar ...No rotor no motor.

   I haven't based the Coot up in the islands yet as I need to get my
Zenith 601 done first so I can buzz up and back with it, I hope to
have the 601 flying by the end of the year, just getting started on
it but I cannot believe how simple and easy this plane is to build, I
am scratch building it and had all the al the parts cut with a laser.
 Ken Welter

That is a neat airplane Ken. Looks like real benign flying
characteristics with that thick wing.

Too bad we don't have a 200 pound firewall forward rotary.
What did you pay for your O-200 Ken?

Paul Lamar

  Paid $4,000 for a complete fire wall forward package off a C-150, it has 1500 hrs on it so I will probably go through it first but still its pretty hard to beat the price.

   They do put these on floats and Zenith sells floats for them but I
don't think it would be a viable float plane but I may build some
floats to play with, now the 701 is a hell of a good float plane.
  Ken

Please let us know what the parts cost of the over haul are.

Paul Lamar

I can second that desire for a 200 lb rotary.   I have just decided
to scratch build the Zenith 701. I need the extreme STOL capability
to get in and out of a 800 ft runway in my pasture.   I am going to
Sun N Fun primarily  to talk to them and buy the plans.   Too bad for
me that there is no rotary option for this airplane.
 Cool idea about having the parts cut with a laser...
Ken, did you just supply cad drawings of the parts or is there more
to it?    Jerry

 There are three of us building them at the same time and one of the
guys ran the plans into autocad and supplied the laser outfit with a
PDX file, the 701 is a hell of a good float plane and I have
considered building one of them also after the 601 is finished.
Ken

Heck why stop there? Have the skins cut AND the holes punched on an NC
punch. Real cheap and REAL accurate.

Paul Lamar

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