Av8r3400

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    Another point is don't trust the gas station not to have alcohol contamination in their supposed clean fuel.

    An easy way to test is with plain food coloring.  Put a sample of fuel in a clear container and add a couple drops of food coloring and mix it.  If it turns the fuel colored that means thee ethanol dissolved the water based die.  If the food coloring just makes a droplet in the bottom and doesn't mix, you have clean fuel.

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    Brandon Peterson from Kitfox Aircraft was involved in an accident this past Saturday.

    He and a passenger, not his wife Heather, hit a power line going over the Snake river and they went in.  N295P was lost but they both got out and were transported to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

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    the two piece one is the original type.  Kitfox changed to a steel one that is just on the top.  

    There is also a matched pair of pieces inside the wing on the web of the rib and under the cap strip to reinforce these brackets.

    I converted to the new style hangers when I rebuilt the Mangy.

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  7. Posted

    My NR has treated me well, no complaints.  The performance is not as good at my 78x48 Prince down low, but better top end.

    I've spoken with a couple guys at OSH who love their DUC propellers.  One guy had a constant speed version and had nothing but praise for it's performance.

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    One of the early reports said the engine departed the airframe.  This has proven out to be inaccurate.  Needless to say, loosing a blade will defiantly be a catastrophic situation...

    I remember when my friend Dave (built Sputzee the Avid-Kitfox hybrid) was later building a J5 Cub with an O320 on the nose, his research told him that adjustable props and direct drive engines are not a good mix.  He went with a solid Catto on that build.

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    The dollar has been steady against other first world currencies for decades.

    So you're saying the one world order/government types are colluding with each other to control the economies of all of the "western world" in order to maintain their tyrannical authoritarianism?  I whole heartedly agree.

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    I think there is a two year wait on the kits as well.  I suppose if you can sell more kits than you can produce, prices will go up.  I think my Kitfox 4 firewall back kit was something like $14000.  That was in 1993.  Adjusted for inflation is there much difference in price?  JImChuk

    Spot on, Jim.

    At $50k, they're selling as many as they can make.  They know they have a hot commodity.  To increase production is almost impossible while maintaining the same level of quality that they put into their kits.

    Doug's just a little salty because he remembers going to the movies for a nickel...

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  16. Posted

    There's enough reading material and good educational information to keep your brain fed for a while.

    I'll say that www.teamkitfox.com also is a good resource for the general type of aircraft too.

     

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  19. Posted

    Sounds like they made a successful landing but tagged a road sign which spun them around and they nosed over slowly.

    I'm amazed the nose gear has no discernible damage.

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    Hey Larry I can’t seem to find any info on the Avid anniversary has the EAA posted anything?

    I don't know if EAA has done any advertising on this yet.  It is a confirmed, for sure, thing down at the UL area.

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    You don't have an airplane.  You have parts.  You'll need a "clean" data plate to make those parts into another airplane.

     

  24. Posted

    I’m with Larry about the clunky nature of the Avid and Kitfox mounts.  If I needed a mount today I would have a bed mount built.

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    That's a nice looking mount.  What airframe is this?  I have a friend building a Dakota Hawk (wood design) that is looking for engine mount ideas because the kit manufacturer is little to no help.

     

  25. Posted

    Hi Larry,  Do you have the ring mount on your kitfox?  I have  one but it moves the engine 5" further ahead than the standard Kitfox mount.  It was remodeled from a Kitfox 5 to fit the 4 firewall mounts.  Just the center two mounting points are different width I think.  But maybe it also projects further out than a Kitfox 4 ring mount would, I'm not sure.  The front face of the prop flange on the 912 is 29 1/2" from the firewall with this mount.  The standard mount measures 25 1/2" from firewall.  Maybe if you have the ring mount, could you measure the distance from firewall to prop flange face sometime??  JImChuk

    I do not have a ring mount.  When I was doing the rebuild, that was originally part of the plan to retrofit the ring to my plane.  With this in mind I build the plane with as much weight to the back as possible.  My CG is very aft compared to the Kitfox manual.  This was to offset the further forward position of the engine.