I love spaghetti, except in wire bundles.
Been a long time since I posted so I thought a bit of an update needed. I'm now down to finish painting the fuselage and have, after a lot of anguish, decided on a paint scheme. It's basically a two tone Federal Grey and Federal Yellow, with black and yellow striping. The line between the two colours was my main concern because I was worrying about paint leaching under the masking tape. However, others on the site provide, as usual, really valuable advice, which I followed to the letter. And it's worked, except in couple of places where the tape lifted a bit. With help from a friend, I temporarily assembled the wings to the fuselage to finally set the closing ribs and line up the flaperon spar cutout with the turtle deck - used the inboard hangers from each flaperon and a broom handle to line it up. While at it, I decided to spray the cockpit tubes grey because I think the white didn't really fit with the paint scheme. Happy with the final result. I'm now down to an ever shortening list of stuff to finish and the focus now is the cockpit and baggage area. I'm installing a Lycoming YO-233 engine which is heavier than the Rotax so I'm waiting to do a preliminary weight and balance before deciding on how far aft the battery needs to be positioned.
David
SS7 Builder
Love the paint scheme David!
Always liked the grey and yellow Carbon Cubs, the Kitfox will look fantastic in these colors!
Its a good feeling to get the painting finished.
Regards Ben
Victoria Australia
S7 Kitfox 233
Very nice paint scheme David.
DesertFox4
Admin.
7 Super Sport912 ULS Tri-gear
Looking nice David, sounds like you are at the punch list stage and getting close. Bruce N199CL
Looks great David! Can't wait to see you flying.
--Brian
Flying - S7SS
I think it looks great too, David! You’re getting there! The YO-233 should be a good, reliable engine, and about as light as you can get with a Lycoming.
John Evens
Arvada, CO
Kitfox SS7 N27JE
EAA Lifetime
Chap. 43 honorary Lifetime
I flew the factory’s 233 Lycoming equipped Kitfox with John McB. after the radial was removed from that aircraft. It performed pretty well. It was the carbureted version.
DesertFox4
Admin.
7 Super Sport912 ULS Tri-gear
Thanks guys, comments appreciated. You do all this work to get to the stage of painting and then, at least in my case, you agonise over colours because that's what people see, and don't see all the real work underlying that. But similar to Brian's paint scheme, the grey and yellow, or orange, go well together. That striping took, literally hours to mask off for a matter of minutes spray painting. I can now understand why it costs heaps for stripes or other similar markings ... and the Lycoming O-233 (mine is carburettor too Steve) should give enough grunt. Ben has the injected version so will be interesting to see how fuel consumptions compare. But yep, the list gets shorter each day ...
David
SS7 Builder