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Master Caution

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...month’s treatise was to produce the first installment of my upcoming Kitfox build series, which I have been greatly looking forward to. However, as often happens in life, life itself...

2025 Engine Buyer’s Guide

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Welcome to our annual Engine Buyer’s Guide, where we try to dissect what’s new, what’s old and what’s changed in the world of Experimental-intended powerplants. Last year we reported the...

How Bad Could a Prop Strike Be?

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A prop strike, even at very low speed and power, is a serious matter. We watched as the Kitfox struggled to land. The crosswind was high and the pilot decided...

Kitfox Speedster 916

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...may be reasonably priced but it’s never free. The trick, of course, is to find the balance. For Kitfox, the solution, while still keeping a sharp eye on that ever-elusive...

Kitbuilding as Easy as Child’s Play

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...in building a kit aircraft, a friend of mine announced his purchase of a complete new Kitfox airplane kit. (This was back in the 1980s, so this kit was nothing...

Repeat Offender

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My airpark neighbor Bill Prokes would be a tremendous asset on a Kitfox aircraft project, having built several that he still owns. I still vividly remember when I made the...

Kitfox Celebrates Forty, Too

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...anniversary fly-in. That’s George Hardin’s Kitfox Lite (left) and Ty Ferkin’s Kitfox IV on amphibious floats (right). The Long View When I think back on how the Kitfox got started,...

Flat Four-Stroke Gasoline

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...the 916 iS is Rotax’s current top-of-the-line engine and a real shot in the arm for STOL aircraft such as the Carbon Cub UL and the Kitfox Super Sport. Its...

Inline and V Four-Stroke

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...RANS, plus Sonex, Kitfox, Murphy Aircraft, Van’s, GlaStar and others. Given the low cost of used engines, Viking leverages that into some of the least expensive engines in the Experimental...

Kitfox Aircraft Factory Tour

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While the KITPLANES crew was horsing around in Homedale, Idaho, flying the riotously fun Super Sport with the Rotax 916 aboard, Kitfox owner John McBean took us on a tour...

In Case You Missed It

Metal Magic: Making Square Instrument Holes In Aluminum

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You've built most of your airplane, now it's time for cutting the instrument panel...

Metal Magic: Driving and Squeezing Countersunk Rivets

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Paul Dye explains how to both drive and squeeze flush rivets and offers handy tips to getting good, repeatable results.

Design Process: Stall and Roll Damping

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Last time we took a look at the effect of twisting the wing. Wing...

Ask the DAR

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DAR Mel Asberry clears up airspace restrictions for homebuilts during flight testing and discusses how the original builder of a homebuilt design remains the builder unless the airworthiness certificate is surrendered, which has implications for reselling an aircraft.