How about some new Kitfox screen saver pics?

[av8rps]

Winter is dragging on and on here in central Wisconsin, so in an effort to get inspired for spring it would be cool if we could all share some of our favorite Kitfox pics. Then we can all pick and choose some new stuff for our screensavers. My old screensaver pics are getting a bit old, so I was thinking how nice it would be to have some new stuff to look at until the nice weather gets here (assuming that ever happens...).

So what do you say, can you guys share some of your favorite pics with the rest of us?

I'll get us started by sharing one of my favorites from home I call "My Kitfox Paradise".

[DesertFox4]

A yellow Kitfox on floats. What's not to love. Thanks Paul.:):):):)

I just saw a text from my niece showing the weather in central Wisc. :(
Winter just won't die up there.

Here's one I like with no snow anywhere near.
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and one of my favorites taken of my model 4.
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[SkySteve]

I've always liked these:
http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff12/KitfoxSteve/85DD/21bf6549.jpg (http://s237.photobucket.com/user/KitfoxSteve/media/85DD/21bf6549.jpg.html)
http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff12/KitfoxSteve/85DD/7B431FA1-1393-4E06-A5DB-4A1207AE01B5-967-000000D8561606C1.jpg (http://s237.photobucket.com/user/KitfoxSteve/media/85DD/7B431FA1-1393-4E06-A5DB-4A1207AE01B5-967-000000D8561606C1.jpg.html)

[av8rps]

Thanks for the new pics. Keep it up gang!

Yeah, our weather here just won't stop. 12 inches of fresh snow in Northern Wisconsin last night - roads essentially impassable. Argh...

Hey, who can tell me how to submit the full size pics? I put mine up twice trying to make it bigger (like the ones just posted) and it wouldn't make it any larger.

Paul

[HansLab]

You must've seen these - but I guess they belong in the row..

[SkySteve]

Hey, who can tell me how to submit the full size pics? I put mine up twice trying to make it bigger (like the ones just posted) and it wouldn't make it any larger.
Av8rps,
I use Photobucket. Upload your pics there, then click on the photo you want. You get several options to link. Click on the IMG link and it will automatically be copied, then paste the link in your TeamKitfox post. Walla, the picture shows in your post.

[DesertFox4]

A few more I found in my archives.

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[GWright6970]

Note to self..... GOTTA BUILD FASTER!!!!

GREAT PHOTOS.... SUPREME MOTIVATION!!! THANK YOU ALL!!!

[JimS]

Let the FLYING SEASON BEGIN!!
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[DesertFox6]

Okay, for those who are still freezing; some desert warmth...

[DesertFox6]

Okay, I fat-fingered something on my last entry; the first photo was courtesy of DesertFox4, snapped at a local DF fly-in, while the second one with the smoke system blowing was by John McBean taken at the same fly-in. Not to be outdone in the aerial photography department, the shot below, used as my avatar, was snapped by Debra McBean enroute to "Highwing's" home airpark fly-in a number of years back. It's an "official" company photo, complete with Kitfox logo, and it IS my screensaver! (Thank you Debra!)

"E.T."

[DesertFox4]

Some more photos.

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[Av8r3400]

Let it snow… :p

http://i1218.photobucket.com/albums/dd401/av8r3400/d7af90ad-9018-4d4f-b383-e1066f02ede2.jpg

[DesertFox4]

Mike's model 4.
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[HighWing]

My two.

Thunder Ridge

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Johnson Creek

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[Wheels]

Fourth of July disguise

[dholly]

My KF4 waiting for the fog to burn off...

[SkySteve]

Lowell,
On your first plane it looks like you had a torpedo type storage on your strut. Tells us about it please. Thanks.

[Pilot4Life]

That's a camera mount. His new one is pretty cool too. It's cable controlled with a Joystick and MFD in the cockpit for viewing what you're filming. I saw it a while back while in Sacramento doing some "work". I think he should produce and market it. C'mon Lowell, what do you say...Will Highwing, LLC start making these available to the general population?

[SkySteve]

Looks nice.

[HighWing]

That's a camera mount.... C'mon Lowell, what do you say...Will Highwing, LLC start making these available to the general population?

I had to laugh. As I type this, I am on my third rebuild of the current version. The first one (on the first airplane) worked great. I had camera stability to about 75% of maximum zoom. It would tilt to about 20° above level to down about 45°. Pan was close to 180°

This time I tried using Nylaflo tubing and hydraulic cylinders to control the camera pan and tilt. not enough stability with low pressure fluid. I then ran cable through the Nulaflo and not much better. Right now it is all apart and I found that the ball bearing races I was using all have a little play in them and I get some pretty significant camera shake from engine vibration. I am going back to Delrin sleeve bearings and will know in a week or so if they will work. It has been high expectations followed by disappointment. The hydraulic idea was prompted by a desire to move the camera around on the airplane. Straight line runs of control cables eliminates that possibility. But then an idea popped into my head. We'll see about that one.

Produce for public? I seriously doubt it. Way too complex and would be way too expensive. I sort of understand why the ones on the News helicopters are in the half million $$ range. I have tried almost everything at least once and would be happy to tell what i know if anyone would like to try one themselves. The first one was made of aluminum riveted together. This one is welded 4130. A lathe is a must in either case, though.

As I reassemble this one, I will take some pictures and post them for curiosities sake.

I know we are not supposed to post links to commercial sites, but maybe I can be forgiven for dropping a link to some videos I took with the first system. The last of the Oshkosh videos was edited and posted the day before I destroyed the airplane in the emergency landing - ten minutes into a flight to the Factory Fly-in (2007).

http://highwingllc.com/videoarchive.html

[wannafly]

Great pictures everyone especially now that we are in one big snow storm...aaaahhhhh

on the camera mount has anyone tryed one of these
http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-Tarot-Brushless-Gimbal-T-2D-for-GoPro-Hero3-Mount-DJI-Phantom-FPV-Camera-V2-/281217085442?pt=Radio_Control_Parts_Accessories&hash=item4179d83002

some of my friends have them on their UAV quad chopper. Can buy now for $149

[GWright6970]

Chris.... I think that the camera mount was stop secret Kitfox R & D work!!! LMAO!!! LOWELL'S SKUNK WORKS!!! Next time you are out here on the left coast we'll go to Lowell's.... I will bring the deli sandwhiches and soft drinks!!!

[SkySteve]

I know a good camera mount and controls can be tough. I own part of a UAS (drone) company and we have spent several thousands of dollars and a lot of time developing good camera platforms. We actually now use a separate auto pilot system to control the cameras.

[jamesmil]

great looking kitfoxs, would like to add ours. the pretty girl in the pic, is my copilot and granddaughter Hally.

[DesertFox4]

Incredible photos Jimmy. Congrats for having the prettiest co-pilot too.:)

[P Morel]

We have so many to choose....

[beeryboats]

With all these great pics, why am I forced to buy crappy calendars of J-3 Cubs and DC-3's every year???

[SkyPirate]

I hinted a coupled years ago that there should be a kitfox calendar..and a kitfox FF5 MK calendar google "Factory five" look up the cobra ..a model 4 bump cowl speedster sitting next to a FF5 Cobra..on a beach ..the best of both worlds :)

[Paul Z]

We have so many to choose....

I really like you bird.

[av8rps]

Great pictures gang! Keep it up and in no time we will all have grat new screensavers.

Skypirate, you need to expain....what exactly is Kitfox FF5 MK? I know about factory five as a guy I work with is planning to build one, but cant connect the dots between that and kitfox

[DesertFox4]

Photos from way back.
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[DesertFox4]

From 2002.
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[Danh]

Nice, these are keepers
Thanks

[DesertFox4]

A couple more.

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[Paul Z]

I see my bird when it still had wheel pants, and just before I bought it.

[DesertFox4]

Just like in your avatar pic Paul.:)

[DesertFox4]

More.

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[av8rps]

I am seeing a lot of pics I had never seen before...GOOD JOB! And Keep it up, this is fun!!!

[DesertFox6]

Heck, I'm seeing pictures of MY OWN plane I've never seen before; DesertFox4 has evidently gone "one up" on the NSA, 'cuz he's apparently got photo documentation of every Kitfox on the planet!

You don't suppose he's cheating and using Google Earth to expand his collection do you? :confused: I found this photo when I Googled "Chandler Airport, Arizona"...spooky, isn't it?

[Wheels]

A local Sheriff told me he saw a blue and yellow KITFOX on a trailer in Clark Fork Idaho. he knows a kitfox when he sees one because he knows mine. Who has a blue and yellow kitfox around here? we should get together and swap n numbers n stuff.

[DesertFox4]

Found a couple more.
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[SkySteve]

I believe DF4 has hacked into a satellite somewhere, OR, maybe he has a black ops drone business on the side, that would be the right side not the left. :cool:

[Alberta_Kitfox]

My Kitfox IV-1050, currently being re-engined with a 912ULS.
http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n186/AB_Summit/C-FSXT/20130910_124956_zps45131a7b.jpg (http://s112.photobucket.com/user/AB_Summit/media/C-FSXT/20130910_124956_zps45131a7b.jpg.html)

[Olle1975]

Kitfox III, Rotax 582, 68" GSC Prop

[DesertFox4]

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[HighWing]

Thanks for the pictures. Some of them bring back some very fond memories. An interesting note to some might be that in the third picture - in front of my house - the Green and White Rans S-7 was owned by Hal Stockman the developer of the Big Bore kits BigJohn is reporting on. Hal is now flying a two or three year old S-7. At the time, I believe Hal was flying behind a 912UL with one of the high compression piston kits. He had some adventures with that - once placing a helicoil after landing on a dry lake bed after a head bolt tore out of the block. He was the McGiver that jury rigged some braking when one of the linings on my left brake cracked and fell out on our way to Thunder Ridge last year. It was at Shoshone, CA check Google Earth if you want to see desolate and unforgiving.

[t j]

Classic 4 and Model II

[DesertFox4]

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[SkyPirate]

Patiently waiting for the fog to finish dissipating

[Jono]

While SkyPirate was waiting....

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[AirFox]

Flight of two Kitfoxs along the Pacific coast.
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[Wheels]

She is ready. She just needs a signature and a little push.

[Slyfox]

nice I like :)

[AirFox]

Very Nice! Looks like a nice field to fly out of too! Now the fun begins!

[jiott]

Very nice color scheme!
Is that a 50 cal. machine gun sticking out of the upper cowl?

[Wheels]

It's a couple of 16 MM mini cannons. We have a lot of geese out here.

[Wheels]

I should submit the disclaimer in case anyone gets excited. Those are just mock 16 mm cannons.

[Av8r3400]

Coming home from a Memorial Day breakfast fly-in…

[SkySteve]

Av8r3400,
Wow! Great photo. It looks like you should have floats on that bird.

[cjb]

Cool pics flying over AZ.


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[Paul Z]

If you are wanting some Screen Saver Photos, go to the Kitfox Facebook Page. John, & Paul went Flying in the north part of Idaho, there are some stunning pictures to use as your Backgrounds.

https://www.facebook.com/KitfoxAircraft/photos/pcb.778257955571094/778257215571168/?type=1&theater

[Paul Z]

If you are wanting some Screen Saver Photos, go to the Kitfox Facebook Page. John, & Paul went Flying in the north part of Idaho, there are some stunning pictures to use as your Backgrounds.

If you are not a Facebook User I am not sure if you can see the photos. Just click on the right side of the picture and it will change to the next photo.

https://www.facebook.com/KitfoxAircraft/photos/pcb.778257955571094/778257232237833/?type=1&theater

[AirFox]

I like this one.
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This one is from Felts.
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[Paul Z]

Is that your plane just taking off in the background of the first photo you posted?
If it is I think that is you taking off in the photo I posted.
I like this photo

[AirFox]

Yep. Me in both pics. That was a fun night out flying!!!!! The photographer sure did a nice Job!

[Paul Z]

I have flown up in Idaho with Paul L. at Stick & Rudder. It is some beautiful country! I spent a week up there getting certified in a Tail Dragger, and doing some Back country flying, and I had a Great Time!

[68niou1]

A couple more from that night- sorry I suck as a photographer....:)



Last one-:D

[Paul Z]

The Pacific N/W definitely has some nice places to commit aviation. That hanger in the woods is great.