jdmcbean
07-14-2010, 05:28 PM
OK.. It has been awhile since an update.
Lets just say we are extremely busy with Kit orders, SLSA orders and of course parts.. Thank you for the support and the patience from the Kitfox family.
We just returned from the Arlington Air show in Arlington, WA. 11 years going to the Arlington show and I think this was the 3rd time I was able to fly over the Cascades and look down to see the beautiful mountain country that we live in. It was a great show.. started off a little slow but Friday and Saturday were busy. We had 5 Kitfox's lined up in our booth. Congrats to John Kuzmic for his reserve Grand Champion award 914 powered Kitfox S7.
Yes we are going to Oshkosh and are in the North Aircraft display spaces 634 & 635 and we'll have our new factory demo there.
Hopefully we'll be getting an update on the web shortly as well... but 2 days ago we did a first flight on the years factory demo. This is no ordinary Kitfox. We had decided some time ago to develope a firewall forward package for the Rotec 2800 Radial and have been working very hard to get that done.. well with the exception of a few little items left it is flying. So here are a couple of pics. There are some other items that are very interesting and will be available very soon. The LLE (Laker Leading Edge) developed by Phil "Papa" Laker is installed and looks great. I do not have any performance numbers or pricing yet but it does look great and appears to have lowered the stall some. Of course the firewall forward was a team effort with "Papa" and Bill "Mistro" Prokes developing the cowlings and Mark assembling the firewall forward (along with most the rest of the aircraft). We also have a new main gear setup that we have drop tested with great results and yeilded a much higher strength then expected or required. (one drop test test is worth a thousand expert opinions)
So without getting into too much detail.. we have been very busy.. Kit orders are into October currently and SLSA's are into next year.
Enjoy some of the pics.. and we hope to see you at Oshkosh !!
Lets just say we are extremely busy with Kit orders, SLSA orders and of course parts.. Thank you for the support and the patience from the Kitfox family.
We just returned from the Arlington Air show in Arlington, WA. 11 years going to the Arlington show and I think this was the 3rd time I was able to fly over the Cascades and look down to see the beautiful mountain country that we live in. It was a great show.. started off a little slow but Friday and Saturday were busy. We had 5 Kitfox's lined up in our booth. Congrats to John Kuzmic for his reserve Grand Champion award 914 powered Kitfox S7.
Yes we are going to Oshkosh and are in the North Aircraft display spaces 634 & 635 and we'll have our new factory demo there.
Hopefully we'll be getting an update on the web shortly as well... but 2 days ago we did a first flight on the years factory demo. This is no ordinary Kitfox. We had decided some time ago to develope a firewall forward package for the Rotec 2800 Radial and have been working very hard to get that done.. well with the exception of a few little items left it is flying. So here are a couple of pics. There are some other items that are very interesting and will be available very soon. The LLE (Laker Leading Edge) developed by Phil "Papa" Laker is installed and looks great. I do not have any performance numbers or pricing yet but it does look great and appears to have lowered the stall some. Of course the firewall forward was a team effort with "Papa" and Bill "Mistro" Prokes developing the cowlings and Mark assembling the firewall forward (along with most the rest of the aircraft). We also have a new main gear setup that we have drop tested with great results and yeilded a much higher strength then expected or required. (one drop test test is worth a thousand expert opinions)
So without getting into too much detail.. we have been very busy.. Kit orders are into October currently and SLSA's are into next year.
Enjoy some of the pics.. and we hope to see you at Oshkosh !!