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Deciding What to Build
...Kitfox in their given specialties. If you are already flying a similar aircraft, then you are fully aware of what you want or need. But many of us build with...
Preparing for Flight Test Unknowns
...Sonex, or Kitfox behaves. Be careful-these airplanes may get airborne well before the pilot pushes the throttle all the way forward. I plan to ask myself: Is there another, less...
Down to Earth
Electrical problems on an airplane as low-draw as our Kitfox IV are insidious: you hardly know you have them at first. Our panel setup is so minimal, with just a...
Finding the Perfect Project
...plenty of power—with the right engine (and it should be noted that most demo flights are given in the airplane with the biggest engine they support). The modern Kitfox is...
Error Chain
...accidents often end—poorly. I’ve also heard of a new owner who crashed his Kitfox Lite on his first departure. He did not survive. That was with an engine significantly larger...
Wrap it up?
I remember picking paint for our RV-10. Heck, I remember picking paint for our Kitfox IV back in 1993. We worked with sleeves of paint samples, small cardboard squares of...
Building Again
...the VAF forums, and then to the canard forums, the Kitfox forums, and so on, and so on. The forums really became a part of my life. I couldn’t go...
Checkpoints
...of my most recent completion, a Kitfox Super Sport, performed on a June day in Atlanta, Ga. The author’s Kitfox Super Sport on climbout. Having built nine airplanes across those...
Hello, Tech Support
...it gives that nice person at the kit company the ability to see just how messy the shop is! John and Debra McBean enjoy flying their S7 and providing Kitfox...
Thirty Years of KITPLANES
...ultralight. We flew Mike Arnold’s one-of-a-kind, world-recording-setting AR-5. My first cover story, on Dan Denney’s prototype Kitfox, was in the March ’85 edition. The following year at Sun ‘n Fun...
In Case You Missed It
Light Stuff
Roy Beisswenger takes a look at how you too can join the league of record holders in the ultralight world.
Design Process: Stall and Roll Damping
Last time we took a look at the effect of twisting the wing. Wing...