On 7 Mar 2005 04:48:40 -0800, (rich a.) wrote:
In article , Ron Wanttaja says...
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So....hmmm, pusher airplane with the pilot in a pod, outlandish performance
claims, production stopped by lawsuits. That "famous designer" must be Jim
Bede.... :-)

] Good guess Ron.....seems likely.

Ummm, well, I *was* just kidding. Bede's airplanes, if nothing else, have a
certain style, and this one doesn't seem to have his touch. The only thing that
might point towards him is the tubular main spar, but a lot of designers were
using those by the mid '80s.

On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 06:47:19 -0800, Richard Riley
wrote:

I'm pretty sure this one was a Dean Wilson project, back in the days
when Kitfox split off from Avid.

Could be, I guess. The fuselage shell is a bit reminiscent of that of an Avid
Amphibian. The wing design isn't like Wilson's other projects, though...he
tended to use a tubular leading edge spar. The wing has stamped ribs and is
skinned with aluminum, which is also decidedly non-Avid.

The Ebay write-up also mentions the transcript of a seminar the designer did at
Oshkosh 1987. I went through the forum list that was in the May '87 issue of
SPORT AVIATION, and nothing really popped out. I'm not that "up" on the
designer names, in any case, and there were one or two university professors who
could have been the guy.

Ron Wanttaja