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A little late to the party, but assuming 5 adults would put 3 in the rear seat (or one in the baggage area), wouldn't that result in a CG too far aft and compromised stability?

For anyone not familiar with Flabob, you need only look as far as this month's
issue of Sport Aviation (EAA's main publication).

http://www.eaa.org/sportaviationmag/

You can also check out:

www.flabob.org
www.eaach1.org

Bruce

 

I posted this on the Avid Yahoo forum, but wanted to put it out to our Kitfox brethren too since we all basically represent the same family of aircraft.

For anyone near southern California looking for an excuse to fly your Avid or Kitfox,
here's info for the upcoming Flabob Low and Slow Fly In, with food, planes and
fun events. There is a (meager) website for registration and meal signups here:

http://www.lowandslowflyin.com


Let's see how many Avids and Kitfoxes we can get out there on short notice. Maybe we can put
on a good turnout for the type. You can't get much lower or slower than the Avid or Kitfox!
 

Be sure to go to the link and register so that they know how many meals to plan for.

Bruce

 

Flabob L-n-S.pdf

I went out to the hangar today and went flying. Where he scratched it looks fine but I guess he has never spray painted because he got a ton of overspray everywhere.

It sucks because it's one of those things that is not bad enough to fix but it's bad enough that everytime I do my preflight it's going to piss me off. Oh well at least it didn't mess up the fabric.

Is that the white overspray on the blue or a blue metalflake paint?

I learned all kinds of stuff hanging out with Duncan Miller today. He is a walking piece of history.

Here's a clip from an AOPA article about him

Out in the center of the California farmland between Sacramento and San Francisco sits Vacaville (that's Spanish for cow town). And at Vacaville's Nut Tree Airport (VCB), there's a man who loves aviation so much he has five hangars full of aircraft ranging from a J-3 Cub to a BT-13 Valiant to a Cessna 182 and C-47 being restored for a museum. Eighty-three-year-old Duncan Miller started flying during World War II, and he still loves to fly. Sport Pilot is going to keep him flying.

About nine years ago, Miller needed a pacemaker. And that meant he also needed a special issuance medical certificate. That special issuance is only good for six months, and it takes the FAA four months to process each renewal. But the FAA will only allow Miller to apply for a renewal three months in advance. So for the past nine years, one month out of every six he's been unable to fly while he waits for the FAA to process his paperwork. "I'd run home every day to check my mailbox," Miller said.

I had the good fortune to grow up around a lot of WW2 pilots and would listen intently to their stories. I still listen with interest to my wife's uncle who, at 86, is one of the few remaining original Tuskegee Airman (he also lives in Vacaville and flies a Beech Skipper). I also enjoyed listening to my grandfather who became a pilot for the US Signal Corps Aviation Division in 1917 and flew with them until 1930 (they changed names twice in that time period from Signal Corps to Army Air Service to Army Air Corps), where he flew at Kelly Field in Texas and helped open March Field in Riverside, CA. After 1930, he flew Ford Trimotors and Lockheed Vega's for Conoco Oil, as well as his own Jenny (for some old fashioned barnstorming), Vega, Trimotor, Travelaire, Ryan SCW, and DC-3.

I hate that we are losing these voices from aviation's past.

Bruce

Is this a truss gear or the solid aluminum (grove-style) gear?  If the solid aluminum, have you ever considered just turning the gear around? toe-in becomes toe-out.   

Bruce  :D