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hdoud(at)satx.rr.com
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 Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 6:31 am Post subject: Age |
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Subject: Age
In response to the email regarding Kitfiox owner's ages.
Tho I feel a young 102............. I'm really 78, or is it 87?........Keep fergettin'..........
Flyin' a Kitfox 4..........I think..........with a 582 blue head....... (or red?)
Like to fly with the door open down here, watchin' all them little people and little cars..........but yuh shor gotta be careful spittin' tubacci juice.
Yup! figured it out.............Somebody keeps moving the airporrt, when I'm flyin'.
Went to the Doc the other day, 'bout my fergettin' problem..........s'plained about fergettin'..........Doc, asked some questions fer a coupla minutes and asked me how long I'd had my problem.....I said, what problem?
D'juh ever walk in the next room and wonder why yuh went there?
Got this little invisible man, who folllows me around and when I lay sumpin' down.....the turkey moves it.
Bent down to tie my shoe and wondered if there wasn't sumpin' else I could do, while I was down there.
Time for my nap.......Mighta already had it? ..............Just looked in the mirror.and it broke.
Anyway.glad to talk at all you ..............Foxkiters.............I 'member now.It's 78 years.........Goin' on 102.
Foxkit ........Herb
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funflyer1959(at)yahoo.com
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| Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 7:00 am Post subject: Age |
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47 years old, but no longer have a kitfox. i used to have a model 2. i just monitor this site for future reference.
i now own and fly a van's rv-4, which, by the way, is for sale.
i'm looking for another kitfox. i want to get back to the open door flying.
if anyone knows of kitfox for sale, please let me know.
for all you folks discussing taildraggers, i too transitioned from a tricycle gear to my kitfox, and yes, i did ground loop it once. but as discussed earlier, it was typical pilot error and inattention (emphasize error on this one). i was landing with a 10 mph tailwind and i looped it at moving at about 20mph. the wing never tilted and the mains remained on the ground, but still, a real attention getter. never did that again. the tail on a model 2 didn't have enough authority to allow a tailwind landing once the speed got slow or the prop was blowing over the tail. never had a problem with tailwind takeoffs tho.
on the positive side of having taildragger kitfox, when i transitioned to the vans rv-4, i only had to have 3 hours of dual for insurance purposes. the rv-4 is a lot easier to land than the kitfox, but not nearly as fun. the kitfox always required "dancing feet" like the jitterbug, whereas the van's requires something akin to a slow waltz to keep it straight on roll out.
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morid(at)northland.lib.mi
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| Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 8:32 am Post subject: Age |
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Hi Tony. Where did my "baby" go off to this time?
Deke Morisse
Mikado MI
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funflyer1959(at)yahoo.com
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| Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 9:55 am Post subject: Age |
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deke? so you still remember her ?
a little history for you..... the third owner (florida) was ex military and painted your pretty yellow plane this gosh awful camo scheme.... i purchased it at a good price and flew it til the next annual at which time i went all the way thru it, including a new paint job.... back to yellow with orange trim....i ended up putting about 175 hours on the plane. little kids loved the plane... they called it an army plane, but the guys i flew with always complained because if i was below them, they would lose me because of the lack of contrasting colors with the ground and trees. especially dangerous on short finals over trees.
i decided to sell her bacause of the limited fuel range.
i put her up for sale and a mexican bought the plane, sight unseen. we met in arizona and he took her south of the border to add it to his other 3 planes. he planned to use it for beach flying. the plane was approaching 1000 total hours when i sold it. the engine was zero timed once... i think it was on its third set of tires, 2nd windshield, the doors were recovered with full plexiglass, and those aluminum fuel tanks had to be slosh sealed twice due to stress cracks. it sputtered a couple of times at altitude from trash in the gas during 175 hours of flying time, but i never had the engine die on me. i did make a hasty landing once after a hose clamp loosened and i lost some of the engine coolant.
after several owners and nearly a 1000 hours, she was going strong. you should be very proud of your construction, even if it is 700 miles south of the border now.
i've attached a photo of how she looked when i sold it.
Fox5flyer <morid(at)northland.lib.mi.us> wrote:
| Quote: | Hi Tony. Where did my "baby" go off to this time?
Deke Morisse
Mikado MI
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Float Flyr
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| Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 4:35 pm Post subject: Age |
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Wonderful !!!
Noel [quote]
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MichaelGibbs(at)cox.net
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| Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 12:20 am Post subject: Age |
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Tony sez:
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Murle Williams has some want ads on his web site:
<http://MurleWilliamsAviation.com>. Click the "Wanted/For Sale" link
at the top of the page.
Mike G.
N728KF
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