wrote:

A friend is looking at both of these for a prospective kit purchase.

Eurofox is an Avid derivative and costs much less than the Escapade.

The Escapade claims to be much faster, on the same 80HP Rotax.
Numbers fudged a little maybe?

Anybody here have any experience with either of these?

http://www.eurofox-usa.com/

http://www.justaircraft.com/CMS/
Two things I noticed was
1. The eurofox had ~10% longer wingspan and ~14% wingarea
(which makes me wonder how the Escapade has 39% lower stall speed)
2. The Escapade can be made (yes it is kit and euro is assembled) as a
taildragger or tricycle, I know if I was doing specs I'd use the
tail dragger version to gain about 3-5 mph.

So taildragger vs tri gear and shorter smaller chord wing that could be the
difference (don't know bout the stall thing thou). The Escapade kept
switching between the 80 and 100 hp version on it's various specs and also
seems to be in the development state whereas the Eurofox was consistent and
is already availiable in Europe. Cost of about $55 k at current euro
conversions is quite a bit lower than current SLSA's here. Althought I
didn't see any mention of it haveing acheived SLSA status here yet.
John