---------------------------------------------------------- Kitfox-List Digest Archive --- Total Messages Posted Sun 05/29/11: 6 ---------------------------------------------------------- Today's Message Index: ---------------------- 1. 07:25 AM - Wifes maiden voyage (Patrick Reilly) 2. 07:52 AM - Mod 3 options (Patrick Reilly) 3. 08:59 AM - Re: Wifes maiden voyage (Lynn Matteson) 4. 10:31 AM - Re: Wifes maiden voyage (Patrick Reilly) 5. 02:04 PM - Re: Wifes maiden voyage (Lloyd & Lorrie Cudnohufsky) 6. 04:31 PM - Re: Wifes maiden voyage (Patrick Reilly) ________________________________ Message 1 _____________________________________ Time: 07:25:11 AM PST US Subject: Kitfox-List: Wifes maiden voyage From: Patrick Reilly Lynn, When did you get TIG setup? Did you take any lessons? I took the wife up for her maiden voyage in the Kitfox yesterday early evening, no thermals. We flew to Broadhead for a touch and go and back to Cottonwood, 1.1 hr flight. She said she was scared on takeoff and climb out. After that she loved flying at 1200' AGL along the Sugar river. She wants to know when we can go again. -- Pat Reilly Mod 3 582 Rebuild Rockford,IL ________________________________ Message 2 _____________________________________ Time: 07:52:58 AM PST US Subject: Kitfox-List: Mod 3 options From: Patrick Reilly Kitfoxers under construction, I wanted to give you KItfox Mod 3 and older builders my perspective on what I would do if building another 3. The modifications I have are; 1 Aluminum cabin belly pan 2 Dorsal Fin 3 Home made Lexan turtle deck 4 Homemade 5" wider cabin at the shoulder (similar to Murle Williams setup) 5 Lowell Fitt electric trim tab 6 Lowell Fitt radiator shutter 7 Lexan oberservation doors 8 Kitfox door struts 9 Lowell Fitt bush gear 10 front and back door latch with single handle 11 21x12x8 Nanking tires To make it short the only things I would change would be to eliminate the trim tab and radiator shutters. I have had the belly pan, that was pooh poohed, off twice. The dorsal fin is purely cosmetic, but worth it in my opinion. The newer faster models would benefit from the trim tab, however I find I don't use it on the slow Mod 3. Flaperon trim is sufficient. I also don't use the radiator shutter. Wouldn't be without the bush gear, observation doors, door struts and wider cabin. As Lynn says, "Maybe it's just me", but that's what I would do. -- Pat Reilly Mod 3 582 Rebuild Rockford,IL ________________________________ Message 3 _____________________________________ Time: 08:59:17 AM PST US From: Lynn Matteson Subject: Re: Kitfox-List: Wifes maiden voyage I got it over a year ago. Mine is the Diversion 165 by Miller. I used a TIG welder back in 1970 at the wind tunnel, but haven't used one (except for an occasional drop-in at the welding booths at Oshkosh) since then. I was pretty good at oxy-acetylene welding, and so I thought this was going to be a piece of cake....wrong. It took me a little while to adjust to this machine, which has a torch-mounted amp control, that you operate with your thumb or finger. At first I couldn't determine how much amperage to set on the machine, so I bought the foot pedal control so I didn't have to try to fiddle with the thumb thing. One I got the feel for where to set the amp control, and got my foot educated, I could go right along and make good welds, then I went back to the thumb control, and have been happy ever since. One thing I was doing wrong was trying to melt the rod with the torch and hitting the tungsten with the rod, and that just messes things up. Once I learned to dip the rod into the molten puddle, I was off and running. When are you gonna teach her to fly it? Lynn Matteson Kitfox IV Speedster, taildragger Jabiru 2200, #2062 Prince prop (64 x 30, P-tip) Electroair direct-fire ignition system Rotec TBI-40 injection (sleeved to 36mm) Status: flying with "Ramcharger" intake manifold...1110 hrs (since 3-27-2006) On May 29, 2011, at 10:22 AM, Patrick Reilly wrote: > Lynn, When did you get TIG setup? Did you take any lessons? I took > the wife up for her maiden voyage in the Kitfox yesterday early > evening, no thermals. We flew to Broadhead for a touch and go and > back to Cottonwood, 1.1 hr flight. She said she was scared on > takeoff and climb out. After that she loved flying at 1200' AGL > along the Sugar river. She wants to know when we can go again. > > -- > Pat Reilly > Mod 3 582 Rebuild > Rockford,IL ________________________________ Message 4 _____________________________________ Time: 10:31:10 AM PST US Subject: Re: Kitfox-List: Wifes maiden voyage From: Patrick Reilly Lynn, I wanted her to at least grab the stick...aahhh control stick that is. But she refused. She has enough trouble driving a car, but I will continue to try to get her to try taking the controls. Pat Reilly On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 10:56 AM, Lynn Matteson wrote: > > I got it over a year ago. Mine is the Diversion 165 by Miller. I used a TIG > welder back in 1970 at the wind tunnel, but haven't used one (except for an > occasional drop-in at the welding booths at Oshkosh) since then. I was > pretty good at oxy-acetylene welding, and so I thought this was going to be > a piece of cake....wrong. It took me a little while to adjust to this > machine, which has a torch-mounted amp control, that you operate with your > thumb or finger. At first I couldn't determine how much amperage to set on > the machine, so I bought the foot pedal control so I didn't have to try to > fiddle with the thumb thing. One I got the feel for where to set the amp > control, and got my foot educated, I could go right along and make good > welds, then I went back to the thumb control, and have been happy ever > since. One thing I was doing wrong was trying to melt the rod with the torch > and hitting the tungsten with the rod, and that just messes things up. Once > I learned to dip the rod into the molten puddle, I was off and running. > > When are you gonna teach her to fly it? > > Lynn Matteson > Kitfox IV Speedster, taildragger > Jabiru 2200, #2062 > Prince prop (64 x 30, P-tip) > Electroair direct-fire ignition system > Rotec TBI-40 injection (sleeved to 36mm) > Status: flying with "Ramcharger" intake manifold...1110 hrs (since > 3-27-2006) > > > On May 29, 2011, at 10:22 AM, Patrick Reilly wrote: > > Lynn, When did you get TIG setup? Did you take any lessons? I took the wife >> up for her maiden voyage in the Kitfox yesterday early evening, no thermals. >> We flew to Broadhead for a touch and go and back to Cottonwood, 1.1 hr >> flight. She said she was scared on takeoff and climb out. After that she >> loved flying at 1200' AGL along the Sugar river. She wants to know when we >> can go again. >> >> -- >> Pat Reilly >> Mod 3 582 Rebuild >> Rockford,IL >> > > -- Pat Reilly Mod 3 582 Rebuild Rockford,IL ________________________________ Message 5 _____________________________________ Time: 02:04:23 PM PST US From: "Lloyd & Lorrie Cudnohufsky" <7suds@Chartermi.net> Subject: RE: Kitfox-List: Wifes maiden voyage Pat, You're a lucky man if you got your wife hooked on the Kitfox, a friend of ours took my wife and I to Green Bay in his 414 for lunch, it was bumpy and my wife got sick, (ya, that kind of sick), so now she says she has no desire to fly in the Kitfox, I have some work ahead of me. Lloyd Cudnohufsky 5 Outback 912 IVO IFA Northern Mi. From: owner-kitfox-list-server@matronics.com [mailto:owner-kitfox-list-server@matronics.com] On Behalf Of Patrick Reilly Sent: Sunday, May 29, 2011 9:22 AM Subject: Kitfox-List: Wifes maiden voyage Lynn, When did you get TIG setup? Did you take any lessons? I took the wife up for her maiden voyage in the Kitfox yesterday early evening, no thermals. We flew to Broadhead for a touch and go and back to Cottonwood, 1.1 hr flight. She said she was scared on takeoff and climb out. After that she loved flying at 1200' AGL along the Sugar river. She wants to know when we can go again. -- Pat Reilly Mod 3 582 Rebuild Rockford,IL ________________________________ Message 6 _____________________________________ Time: 04:31:27 PM PST US Subject: Re: Kitfox-List: Wifes maiden voyage From: Patrick Reilly Lloyd, My wife had been up with me in a 150 1 year ago. It was bumpy as hell. She thought that was normal. I had to explain, no that was about as bad as she should expect. Last summer a friend of mine from Cedar, MI took us up in his 172 club plane out of Traverse City. It was unbelievabley smooth. Joyce was impressed. I made sure there wasn't any thermal activity all day the evening I took her up. She said it sure didn't seem like we wer e up for a full 1.1 hrs. I hope the next flight is as good as the 1st. Joyce and I are going to be lighthouse keepers at the Old Mission lighthouse sometime in August. My brother and his wife were last year and we were visiting him and my friend in Cedar. Oh, by the way this is my 2nd wife. The 1st one threatened to divorce me when I went partners on an ultralite 25 years ago. Pat Reilly Mod 3 582 Rebuilt Rockford, IL On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 4:01 PM, Lloyd & Lorrie Cudnohufsky < 7suds@chartermi.net> wrote: > Pat, > > You=92re a lucky man if you got your wife hooked on the Kitfox, a friend of > ours took my wife and I to Green Bay in his 414 for lunch, it was bumpy a nd > my wife got sick, (ya, that kind of sick), so now she says she has no des ire > to fly in the Kitfox, I have some work ahead of me. > > > Lloyd Cudnohufsky > > 5 Outback 912 IVO IFA > > Northern Mi. > > > *From:* owner-kitfox-list-server@matronics.com [mailto: > owner-kitfox-list-server@matronics.com] *On Behalf Of *Patrick Reilly > *Sent:* Sunday, May 29, 2011 9:22 AM > *To:* kitfox-list@matronics.com > *Subject:* Kitfox-List: Wifes maiden voyage > > > Lynn, When did you get TIG setup? Did you take any lessons? I took the wi fe > up for her maiden voyage in the Kitfox yesterday early evening, no therma ls. > We flew to Broadhead for a touch and go and back to Cottonwood, 1.1 hr > flight. She said she was scared on takeoff and climb out. After that she > loved flying at 1200' AGL along the Sugar river. She wants to know when w e > can go again. > > -- > Pat Reilly > Mod 3 582 Rebuild > Rockford,IL > > * * > > * * > > ** > > ** > > ** > > ** > > ** > > *http://www.matronics.com/Navigator?Kitfox-List* > > ** > > ** > > *http://forums.matronics.com* > > ** > > ** > > ** > > ** > > *http://www.matronics.com/contribution* > > ** > > * * > > * > =========== =========== =========== =========== > * > > -- Pat Reilly Mod 3 582 Rebuild Rockford,IL ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Other Matronics Email List Services ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post A New Message kitfox-list@matronics.com UN/SUBSCRIBE http://www.matronics.com/subscription List FAQ http://www.matronics.com/FAQ/Kitfox-List.htm Web Forum Interface To Lists http://forums.matronics.com Matronics List Wiki http://wiki.matronics.com Full Archive Search Engine http://www.matronics.com/search 7-Day List Browse http://www.matronics.com/browse/kitfox-list Browse Digests http://www.matronics.com/digest/kitfox-list Browse Other Lists http://www.matronics.com/browse Live Online Chat! http://www.matronics.com/chat Archive Downloading http://www.matronics.com/archives Photo Share http://www.matronics.com/photoshare Other Email Lists http://www.matronics.com/emaillists Contributions http://www.matronics.com/contribution ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- These Email List Services are sponsored solely by Matronics and through the generous Contributions of its members.