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Safety is No Accident: Lancair Designs
...an event an accident. Lose an engine on a Kitfox (stall speed 44 mph), and there’s probably a number of places one can set down safely and not meet the...
Little Bird the Kitfox
...building an airplane. I was right to be overwhelmed. Even though the airplane we had picked, a Kitfox 4 with speedster-style clipped wings and a two-stroke Rotax 582 engine, was...
Light Stuff
...via APRS. The next refueling was at Nampa, Idaho, the original home of Kitfox aircraft. Dubner and I shed several layers of clothing. By 1 p.m. Mountain Time we were...
Light Stuff
...prototype Kitfoxes equipped with inflatable Full Lotus floats on Lake Parker in Florida. On my solo Kitfox flight, I was careful not to land close to the “logs” drifting in...
Builder Survey: Wilderness Calling
...’80s, until he got his Private license and then built a Kitfox, Titan Tornado, Avid Magnum and a short-tail S-7, accumulating 2902 hours in the process. He was a carpenter...
2010 Kit Aircraft Buyer’s Guide
...all told; Kitfox has expanded with the Mark IV; Lancairs Piston Evolution joins the group (along with the Lancair IV and ES families, which everyone thought would be dropped with...
Letters
...any Avid Flyer. Subsequent models including the one now sold by Kitfox Aircraft are variations of the Vixen. To give Dean Wilson credit for the Kitfox Line of aircraft is...
Down to Earth
...later model Kitfoxes. It turns out that Grove Aircraft Landing Systems makes the gear both for the stock kits and for retrofit on the Kitfox Model 3 and 4 (as...
Letters
...be the promoter. Later, after a parting of the ways, Denney slightly modified the design and started producing it under the name of Kitfox. Today, many other manufacturers are producing...
25th Anniversary: Rutan’s Take
...more than 555 complete HAPI engines. Dan Denney moved on from being the first customer for the Avid Flyer to starting his own company to produce the Kitfox. Over the...
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