Kitfox

Back when I had a Eurofox I wanted to capture video from the wing strut looking in towards the aircraft (or a forward view), so I started looking for solutions, but nothing seeming like a good option for the Eurofox’s thin/flexible strut fairings. I was also fairly concerned by the twisting forces being imparted on a very important structural part. So I put together a basic design that would clamp onto the tie-down mounts, which although part of the wing strut connection to the wing, are separate enough that if a failure of any kind were to happen it would be the welding of the tie-down mounts only....

I bought a Kitfox 2… powered by a Rotax 582 engine, originally built in 1991, with a MTOW of 431kg, and it’s approved in the UK as a microlight. It’s keeping me on my toes but it’s fun to fly!! In this flight I fly the Kitfox over to a small farmstrip called Barton Ashes, where my new hangar is being built. It’s a challenging little strip with a dog-leg runway, tall trees on 3 sides, making it pretty much one-way in and one-way out!...