The wing leading edge tube has also been cutaway to show the strengthening insert. It is a 5′ I-beam insert put in the load-bearing spars of all four wing spars.
Kitfox Aircraft set up a cutaway of a complete airplane. This provides an opportunity to see a Kitfox skeleton that a finished product doesn’t offer. The company is also displaying the wing showing the stages of covering steps in the Poly- Fiber process.
The completed side.The “open” side of the plane.Two-part glued joint connecting winglets and ribs to wing spar
Kitfox provide the Poly-Fiber system for covering the wings with their kits but will give a price break to builders who want to use one of the other systems.
From left to right, raw fabric with reinforcement tape before rib stitch, pink poly brush section with stitching, finished tape over stitching, silver UV poly spray, and white poly tone top coat paint.
Two builders helped each other build RV-9As, each employing significantly different outlays of cash. The results are impressive in both cases, but for different reasons. They help us ponder the question as we build: “What is something worth?” By Marc Cook.
The author reviews the Kappa KP-5 LSA, imported by Kappa Aircraft from the Czech Republic. This is a conventional, low-wing, trigear configuration airplane, with a staggered seating arrangement that allows more room for each occupant, while keeping the cockpit narrow. The KP-5 is powered by a 100-horsepower Rotax 912 ULS engine and a Woodcomp three-blade prop, and has a useful load of 583 pounds. Full-power airspeed is stated as 138 mph. Avionics equipment includes a Dynon EFIS and engine monitor, Garmin GPSMAP 496 and Garmin transponder.
