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Flat Four-Stroke Gasoline
...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
...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...
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Design Process: CG Loading
Empty weight and empty CG of the airplane are fixed and do not vary from flight to flight. The same cannot be said of its contents.
Free Flight
When developing a strategy for a flight, it’s important to know the limitations of XM weather, NEXRAD radar, moving maps and other tools.