Who has been the highest in their Kitfox?

[rosslr]

Haven't been over 10,000 but had to do a rate of climb test for the test program.


for interest, here are the results - I wouldn't claim my timing and my holding exactly to 65kts to be all that accurate, but it gives you the general idea!

cheers

ross

Climb Performance to 10,00ft @ 65kts
ALT Time Time interval/1000ft ROC/1000ft
1000ft Mt Beauty Airport 0
2000ft 875fpm
3000ft 750fpm
4000ft 847fpm
5000ft 826fpm
6000ft 689fpm
7000ft 584fpm
8000ft 548fpm
9000ft 523fpm
10000ft 13m15sec 485fpm

[t j]

I'v been to 8000 feet with 52 horse power.

Ross, I suspect the altitude in your table are from the altimiter and not corrected for density altitude? Here's your climb points on the graph I made during phase one flight testing. Classic 4 at 760 pounds gross weight and 52 horse power Rotax 503.

[Meyertheflyer]

I could have gone higher, but I was getting cold.

[rosslr]

Hey Tom, those are pretty impressive figures for 52hp! It must be a very efficient combination.

cheers

r

[Slyfox]

ya I could have gone higher then 1000agl also, but the plane started to shake(scared) and I was afraid of getting a nose bleed.

[muth]

Climbing up to 14K with my KITFOX 4 Speedster gives a nice impression of famous peaks in the Swiss alps

[n85ae]

14'000 ft. in N85AE today, still climbing 500 fpm+, started getting nervous
about getting hypoxic so took it back down. I0-240B with 74" prop likes
to climb.

The best part was the 150 knot GS going home ...

Jeff

[wannafly]

wow what amazing pictures. If I'm not mistaken that is "The Matterhorn".