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Inline and V Four-Stroke
...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
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...
December 2023
On the cover: Brandon and Heather Petersen’s Super Sport is the first Kitfox to be powered by a 160-hp Rotax 916 iS. Photographed by Jon Bliss near Homedale, Idaho. Table...
Excess Horsepower!
...purposeful and definitely colorful, Brandon Petersen’s Super Sport is an eye-catcher. The Kitfox Version This Kitfox Super Sport, built by Brandon Petersen, master fabricator for Kitfox in Homedale, Idaho, is...
Flight Review: Kitfox Super Sport with Rotax’s Turbo 916
KITPLANES editor at large Paul Dye took a couple of flights with Brandon Petersen in his Kitfox Series 7 Super Sport powered by the new 160-hp Rotax 916 iS. Paul...
A Fine Specimen
Brandon and Heather Petersen and their amazing Kitfox Super Sport with the Rotax 916. You’d never, ever know it was pushed hard to be finished in time for AirVenture 2023....
Brandon and Heather Petersen’s Kitfox Super Sport
Want to know what it’s like to build a Kitfox Super Sport? Brandon and Heather Petersen crafted the airplane on our recent cover, which was the first to use Rotax’s...
The Best Oshkosh Ever
...While we’ve received a bronze Lindy in the past (29 years ago for our Kitfox Speedster), I know I couldn’t begin to match some of the sheer beauty of the...
Archive: August 1991
...Denney at Denney Aircraft (the Kitfox), Chris Heintz of Zenair and Robin Dyck of Murphy Aircraft helped promote this radical new four-stroke engine from a company best known for its...
The Kitfox Muscles Up With the Rotax 916
Kitfox Aircraft showed not one but two Experimentals powered by the new 160-hp Rotax 916 at AirVenture 2023. We caught up with Kitfox’s Brandon Petersen, whose own Kitfox has pride...
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Aero ‘lectrics
Columnist Jim Weir has completed his solar-powered battery charger, and it works! It may not be the fastest charger, but it is certainly up to the task of keeping a battery topped off, even in winter.
Unusual Attitude
As Dick Starks rouses the Dawn Patrol, he recalls his aeronautically inspired familiarity with grain crops, and a nimble performance of the Nieuport Stomp.
Remember When: The BD-5 Micro
The BD-5's reputation precedes it: long in development, company bankruptcy, investor losses, challenging to fly, early accidents. With an introduction like that, who would think this micro plane would be such a positively straightforward blast to fly?
