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Fly the High Road or the Low Road?
...VanderMeulen) Slow is best when cruising at low level. A 200-mph Lancair covering a mile every 20 seconds doesn’t leave much time for sightseeing down low, but a Kitfox at...
How To Sell Your Homebuilt Aircraft
...four-car garages to inspect a Kitfox. The airplane was beautifully assembled, right down to every bolt, washer, and jam nut. “Very, very nice!” I exclaimed. “I hope you’ll invite me...
Buying a Used Homebuilt: Pre-Buy Inspection
...involved. A Lancair Evolution pre-buy will be, and should be, considerably more expensive than one for a Kitfox. Be sure to have an agreement on what the travel budget will...
Completions
...and have logged 30 hours since. Its a great stable taildragger, and I miss my Kitfox Lite less every day, especially when its windy, which doesn’t seem to bother the...
Down to Earth
...was experience. Our first kit aircraft, a Kitfox IV, was built when our children were infants. He had the construction knowledge to build the tube-and-rag airplane with its basic electrical...
Completions
...they had a few years earlier (Pulsar and Kitfox). In preparation for flight testing, I attended the EAA SportAir workshop “Flying Your Project,” instructed by the late Bill Bateman. In...
Simulating Emergencies
...and failed part of the right wing with disastrous results. Another plane from X-plane.org is the Kitfox, modeled by Michel Verheughe and based on the one he owns and flies....
Homebuilt Aircraft Safety 1998-2008
...there were more than twice as many Kitfox accidents? Its interesting to note that more Kitfoxes than Avid Flyers mounted two-stroke engines (35 versus 30), but the two-stroke engines on...
25th Anniversary: Homebuilts – The Enduring Soul of Innovation
...composite construction in the early 1980s, and Lancair and Glasair came to the fore in the mid- to late 80s. Avid and Kitfox offered their designs to homebuilders in the...
ViperJet Redux
...margins for error. An extra 10 knots on final is not an issue on most runways in a Kitfox or a GlaStar, but 10 knots extra in a jet without...
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Simulating Emergencies
Given the aviation accident statistics, its wise to stay sharp between flights, and one way to do that is to practice on a simulator. While that used to be cost prohibitive, todays simulators not only work well on your home computer, they offer homebuilt designs to fly; by Chuck Bodeen.
