Just curious what your opinions are. I love the looks of a tail dragger, but I know they are harder to handle. I assume it depends on the strip you would be flying from as well.
Just curious what your opinions are. I love the looks of a tail dragger, but I know they are harder to handle. I assume it depends on the strip you would be flying from as well.
Hi Travis,
This one has been somewhat drug through the dirt (no punn intended)
If you do a search on the site you should find quite a few... opinions
Dan B
Mesa, AZ
I think in Texas "nose draggers" are outlawed. Now that I started a fight, I overcame my lack of eye foot coordination and have about 250 hours in my taildragger Kitfox. I just thought the taildragger was esthetically pleasing to me.
Pete
Pete
Leander, TX
Model III SN 1000
912
Grove
Pete, sorry to hear they outlawed nose draggers in Texas. Rocky and Paul Z might want to check into that before the fines start piling up.
I do love the tri-gear Kitfox's.
Papa's Super Sport.jpg
But those taildraggers do look sexy. The joy and dilemma of choices.
Radial Super Sport.jpg
CLSSY56- you should build it as a taildragger. Just get some training and you will be fine. You can go anywhere you desire, and anywhere your skill level allows, in a taildragger Kitfox. Besides, they're convertible.
DesertFox4
Admin.
7 Super Sport912 ULS Tri-gear
So many possible replies, so little time. Built mine with the little wheel in the front, happy I did so.
Dorsal ~~^~~
Series 7 - Tri-Gear
912 ULS Warp Drive
What is wrong with Nose Draggers? With the amount of money tied up in these toys why would anyone want to risk it to a Ground Loop. I had a C120 for about 5 years, and although it was quite a bit cheaper than my Kitfox, I still always worried about a GHround Loop. Also, in some of the wind we have been contending with I would have never take my old C120 1606V in the cross winds we have been having. Also, I really like 703KA, she flys great and is easy to land what more can you ask!
Paul Z
They have not outlawed Nose Draggers in GARLAND, TEXAS
Paul Zimmermann
LSRM-A
Garland, Texas
Radial Super Sport.jpg
CLSSY56- you should build it as a taildragger. Just get some training and you will be fine. You can go anywhere you desire, and anywhere your skill level allows, in a taildragger Kitfox. Besides, they're convertible.[/QUOTE]
I must admit this is one AWSOME aircraft!
Paul Zimmermann
LSRM-A
Garland, Texas
I kinda like them both.
The Little Wheel
A dad and a son to a fly-in they spun
Adventure was there and great fun in the air.
The excitement was churning as the son he was learning
At the ripe age of 4 there were questions and more
If these planes can fly, then daddy, why cant I?
Do planes flap their wings like the birds in the sky?
The dad he was grinning as the son kept on spinning.
But one question that came made the dad start to wane…
The little wheel dad, look at that one and there
That’s in the front and this ones back here!
Dad stroked his chin as he started to think
You see son, he said, not all planes are alike
That’s called a taildragger and this one’s a trike.
He went on to tell of the new planes and old
In the differences landing in the differences told
The up’s and the downs, the in’s and the outs
Everything he could think of not to leave any doubts.
And when he was done his sons eyes in the sky
He was watching the air show with no worries of why.
Dad then understood he was missing it some
His analyzations interfered with the fun.
Both planes they do fly and they land just as well
And the pilots both have awesome stories to tell.
Like planes we’re all different, we’re not all alike
So please just get over it and go fly a trike.
By: Dan Billingsley
Dan B
Mesa, AZ