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FlyboyTR
Joined: 04 Nov 2006
Posts: 215
Location: Mobile, Alabama
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 Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2007 6:44 am Post subject: Vixen: Nose Dragger Towbar |
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Our Vixen has a unique bracket configuration on the nose wheel for ground ops. The builder also built a custom towbar that is simple and effective. However, the brackets extend from below the wheel pant and then stick out like little wings (where the towbar attaches). So far a very strong system...
Our problem is that we (90% of the time) usually work off of grass strips and here in L.A. (lower Alabama) we have lots of rain, soft boggy runways/taxiways, etc. When my nose wheel boggs a little the "wings" catch mother earth and start digging in...then act like a plow! Not good! 
I am getting ready to redesign the towbar system and would like to know what others are using for their swiveling nose wheels. 
Once this retro is complete, I would be willing to part with the existing brackets. It’s actually a neat system that is very effective…it just doesn’t do well on soft muddy ground! I will take and post a couple of pictures after my next trip to the airport.
Thanks,
Travis 
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Travis Rayner
Mobile, AL
Skystar Vixen, N-789DF
Continental IO-240, Prince P-Tip Prop
ADI-II Autopilot
AnyWhereMap Navigation with weather
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Tom Jones
Joined: 12 Mar 2006
Posts: 752
Location: Ellensburg, WA
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| Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2007 3:09 pm Post subject: Re: Vixen: Nose Dragger Towbar |
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The "How to Fly a Kitfox" book says the Vixen will "Follow you around like a puppy if you pull it by the prop hub. it seems to me a handle on the rear of the fuselage would make it easy to push around on the ground.
I put some wheels on a scoop shovel and I just scoop up the tail wheel of my classic 4 with and pull it around even with the wings folded. That might work on a nose wheel too.
Tom Jones
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