---------------------------------------------------------- Kitfox-List Digest Archive --- Total Messages Posted Mon 05/16/11: 5 ---------------------------------------------------------- Today's Message Index: ---------------------- 1. 12:38 AM - Re: Flapperons (Michel) 2. 04:40 AM - Re: Re: Flapperons (Jim_and_Lucy Chuk) 3. 06:48 PM - Re: tires wheels (WurlyBird) 4. 07:59 PM - Re: Re: tires wheels (rtmarshall) 5. 09:39 PM - Re: tires wheels (wannafly) ________________________________ Message 1 _____________________________________ Time: 12:38:54 AM PST US Subject: Kitfox-List: Re: Flapperons From: "Michel" Hello everyone, I haven't post for a long time now. I am still flying my Kitfox 3 with a Jabiru engine. Actually, here are some photos from a trip from Norway to Friedrichshafen AERO 2011 exhibition: http://home.online.no/~michel/aero2011/ Anyway, I just wanted to say that, after perhaps 450 hours with my Kitfox, I still love her and ... I never use my flaps. As we know, it pitches the nose down and yes, it increases lift but, to my humble opinion, not so much the drag. On final, I adjust my speed with side slips. I do it all the way to the threshold, to land on the numbers. It is perhaps a question of taste but ... trying to do a three-points landing with my taildragger and induce nose-down by using the flaps ... I don't feel like it. The only time I have used my flaps is when taking off from a short field with long wet grass. Use the flaps to get fast out of the grass, then keep flat above it to gain speed before initial climb. Cheers, Michel -------- Kitfox 3 - Jabiru 2200 Read this topic online here: http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=339990#339990 ________________________________ Message 2 _____________________________________ Time: 04:40:21 AM PST US From: Jim_and_Lucy Chuk Subject: RE: Kitfox-List: Re: Flapperons Good to have you back Michel=2C not to long ago it crossed my mind that we hadn't heard from you in a long time. I had hoped that everything was oke y with you. You always had good comments and information to post. Jim Chuk Avid MK IV (flying) Kitfox 4 (building slowly) northern Mn do not archive > Subject: Kitfox-List: Re: Flapperons > From: michel@online.no > Date: Mon=2C 16 May 2011 00:36:13 -0700 > To: kitfox-list@matronics.com > > > Hello everyone=2C > I haven't post for a long time now. I am still flying my Kitfox 3 with a Jabiru engine. Actually=2C here are some photos from a trip from Norway to Friedrichshafen AERO 2011 exhibition: > http://home.online.no/~michel/aero2011/ > > Anyway=2C I just wanted to say that=2C after perhaps 450 hours with my Ki tfox=2C I still love her and ... I never use my flaps. As we know=2C it pit ches the nose down and yes=2C it increases lift but=2C to my humble opinion =2C not so much the drag. > > On final=2C I adjust my speed with side slips. I do it all the way to the threshold=2C to land on the numbers. It is perhaps a question of taste but ... trying to do a three-points landing with my taildragger and induce nos e-down by using the flaps ... I don't feel like it. > > The only time I have used my flaps is when taking off from a short field with long wet grass. Use the flaps to get fast out of the grass=2C then kee p flat above it to gain speed before initial climb. > > Cheers=2C > Michel > > -------- > Kitfox 3 - Jabiru 2200 > > > > > Read this topic online here: > > http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=339990#339990 > > > > > > > =========== =========== =========== =========== > > > ________________________________ Message 3 _____________________________________ Time: 06:48:56 PM PST US Subject: Kitfox-List: Re: tires wheels From: "WurlyBird" Mal Brubaker had a Speedster that he was parting out, I think he had wheel pants. Search for his thread and you should be able to get a hold of him. -------- James Kitfox 3 / 582 / 70" IVO 2 blade GA 50 hrs on the Fox in between deployments, now she lies in wait Read this topic online here: http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=340069#340069 ________________________________ Message 4 _____________________________________ Time: 07:59:13 PM PST US From: "rtmarshall" Subject: Re: Kitfox-List: Re: tires wheels Hey thanks James, I just emailed him. Do you fly a frantic palm tree on the side? I am trying to get my grandson to go naval air, he is NROTC at LSU. Keep the dirty side down. Bob -------------------------------------------------- From: "WurlyBird" Sent: Monday, May 16, 2011 6:45 PM Subject: Kitfox-List: Re: tires wheels Mal Brubaker had a Speedster that he was parting out, I think he had wheel pants. Search for his thread and you should be able to get a hold of him. -------- James Kitfox 3 / 582 / 70" IVO 2 blade GA 50 hrs on the Fox in between deployments, now she lies in wait Read this topic online here: http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=340069#340069 ________________________________ Message 5 _____________________________________ Time: 09:39:42 PM PST US Subject: Kitfox-List: Re: tires wheels From: "wannafly" I have a set of wheel pants for sale. make me an offer. They are from a model IV with a 8x6 tires. 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