Anyone care to fill us in on the news of the day??
STi + 915 =
Anyone care to fill us in on the news of the day??
STi + 915 =
I was hoping to flush out a little inside dope for Team Kitfox for the non-Facebookers out there.
Thx Larry.
Lets hear some numbers. Speeds, weights, fuel burn, etc. Looks exciting.
Bryan
Project Kitfox
Bowen Aero LLC
Kitfox Model 5 Lycoming O-290 D powered
Building a Model 7 Apex powered
Redding, CA
http://www.youtube.com/c/ProjectKitfox
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i was getting excited about some news out of the homedale team
I spoke to McBean about the setup briefly. If its anything as good as he makes it sound then I am a little jealous. Very excited to see it in person, and if I am lucky hopefully I can get some stick time and report back. Not that I am complaining about my zipper powered STI, but the 915iS sounds pretty insane.
If they can get standard wing cruise speeds out of the 915 powered STI wing, then I may be upgrading. How much weight is added with the 915 and that prop compared to a 912 install? I bet the empty weight is less than my Lycoming with 10-15 more horses.
Bryan
Project Kitfox
Bowen Aero LLC
Kitfox Model 5 Lycoming O-290 D powered
Building a Model 7 Apex powered
Redding, CA
http://www.youtube.com/c/ProjectKitfox
It’s about 35lbs more. I think that wing has some serious diminishing returns once you get above 100mph no matter how much HP you have. Although, I think looking at Trent’s gear it could be cleaned up a little and faired which would probably help a lot.
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Josh Esser
Flying SS7
Rotax 914iS
AirMaster Prop
Edmonton, AB, CWL3