It has all become very silent again.......................... :roll: the storm in the tea cup..... Looks like Griffin was right all along.....cry wolf, cry wolf..... The UFO remains a UFO..... :wink: Just maybe the designer realised that 3-axis was outselling weight shift in SA (except for the puri...

SKYBOUND/PRIESTER Thanx for feedback.Priester, when i am back in SA, end of march, if you dont mind, like to give you a call, possible visit.Want to start building mine this year. Groete Bergdwerg The Savannah is a stunning aircraft and performs extremely well....It's great value for money (Despite...

Demon,
You're getting too much fresh air in that open cockpit of oyurs and with the higher speeds you are doing, the oxygen saturation is affection them grey brain cells....

Time to visit us in slummies en-route to your St Francis pad.....

Hi James, Thanks for the feedback....As you already mentioned, she is a stunning performer once in the air and now with the C of G vs Wheels corrected, ground handling is going to be superb. I believe that Stew Allen actually built 6 of these aircraft and discontinued production as he found the cost...

Yip. all correct....The gear mains are the wrong way around.....the crazy thing is that 340 hours have been flown this way and although it was a delightful plane to fly, landing required a very experienced pilot...As Boet says, you have hardly touched the mains on mother earth and the nose plonks do...

Look here....
http://www.kitfoxaircraft.com/images/Ex ... %20W&B.xls

I am at the stage of detemining the C of G as well as mass and balance for the Vixen. A problem that perplexed me somewhat is that the plane always landed nose heavy... As most of you may already know, the Vixen, Bushbaby, Avid flyer and kitfox are essentially the same aircraft....So I phoned the Bu...

Hi Tailspin,

Somehow the Vixen Borienne rebuild thread has gone missing......

Come on Boet...more pics....don't hold out on us....

Looking good...neat work

It has been a while since I posted here, things have been hectic :shock: A few from last weekend, Sunday morning it was very foggy at Rhino but finally it cleared and it was flying time :D A bit of local exploration produced the following. It was fun for a change not to be going anywhere but just t...

Looks STUNNING !! Well done, Boet

RV4ker wrote:Does KWK have transponder? I think not?

oops...

Also consider that often a thin fog will make a plane invisible from the ground (You are looking up into the light with the sun illuminating the fog or mist)....to the pilot, the same fog or mist is transparrent as the sun is also illuminating the earth below, which is a strong contrast to the haze ...

Is Neil De Lange and/or Stan Oliver active on this forum? If not, why not? Do they know about it?