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.

Here’s the Original OnShape 3D CAD design which wasn’t quite right in the end, and I had to make some small adjustments when I got the parts and starting drilling and assembling the parts. I didn’t get any photos or video of this, but hopefully the photos of the mount on the wing are useful.

Parts List

Tie-down clamp

Smallrig rod mount

GoPro rod clamp

Photos

Eurofox - frontend and camera (old Akaso V50x, I now use a GoPro Hero 8).
Eurofox - view inside the front aluminium channel and the U-bolt clamping onto the tie-down loop. The silicon padding the contact with wing was later replaced with permanent black rubber edge trim on the aluminium channel.
Eurofox - view inside the rear aluminium channel.
Eurofox - focused on the rear mount.
Eurofox - focused on the front mount.
Eurofox - looking up onto the front mount.
Eurofox - looking up onto the rear mount.
Eurofox - looking side-on to the rear mount.
Eurofox - looking at the rear mount from behind.
Eurofox - more from behind.
Eurofox - from the side.
Eurofox - from the front.
Kitfox - same mount on the Kitfox, click for a bigger pic and zoom in a lot.
Kitfox - in the background but slightly closer up.