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The flying season is here.. Hello Everyone

Finally we’ve been able to enjoy some warm weather and super flying. The recent Popham trade fair was very well attended and we had many EuroFOX owners coming along to see us, many thanks its always great to catch up. However, the National Eurostar and Eurofox Fly-In 27-29 April at Sywell didn't take place due to very poor

weather. Great shame after all the hard work that went into the planning. The Eurostar guys will be going to Sandown on the 9th June as rearranged. We are invited should anyone want to go.

We will have our exclusive EuroFOX flyin in August, see below in this newsletter, it should be a very unique and special one.

We are still very busy with not enough hours in the day to get everything done, Steve, Luke, Alan and Sue are flat out at Lukesfield, and Adrian is bombing around the country with inspections and the like. As for me, lots of paper-work for new aircraft, mods, upgrades, repairs and lots of demos to gliding clubs, customers and prospective new EuroFOX owners. We will not be at the AeroExpo event this year, apologies if you go and expect to see us there.

Welcome to Edition Number 35, May 18

EuroFOX/Breezer exclusive flyin

We are in the planning stages at the moment for a day flyin into a pri-vate estate in Oxfordshire, not normally available without a personal invitation from the estate owner. The owner has a EuroFOX and has generously invited us in for a hog roast and fun and games. There will be toilets and all facilities for the day. The strip is 500 metres, the date will be either 25 or 26 August. Save the date, its one not to be missed, could be a unique one off event, more details shortly.

“the most complex panel we have ever sold” - Mendelssohns

This was the quote that reflected our 4 wing tank 912iS demonstrator G MKHB major avionics up-grade. Taking our Lukesfield team a month to com-plete and in the process of going through the LAA, installed equipment consists of……

Garmin Kit:

GDU 450 - Pilot Flying Display, GDU 450 - Multifunction Flying Display, GI 260 - Angle of Attack, GSU 25 - ADAHRS (with back up battery), GEA 24 - Engine Moni-tor Interface, GTN 650 - Comms1 and Nav 1, GTX 23 - Transponder, Magnetometer, GAD 27 - Lighting Con-trol, GMC 307 - Autopilot, GSA 27 - Roll Servo, GSA 27 - Pitch Servo, G5 - EFIS, GAD 29 - ARINC Interface, GTR

225 - Comms 2, GMA 245 - Audio panel, GDL 39 - GPS and ADS-B receiver, Twin heated pitot tubes, TCW 6A Auxiliary Power Supply, Airmasters variable pitch prop, Music input, Phone input, GA P1 and P2 comms inputs, LIMO P1 and P2 comms inputs, All mounted on a 2 layer panel

Flight testing and commissioning will be very interesting….

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Please send any contributions or suggestions to Roger, Adrian or Steve, many thanks.

Delivered, sold or finished

Deliveries and builds continue at a frantic pace. Since the Feb. Newsletter we have delivered a factory built 80 hp nose wheel to Mike Skinner (AKA Victor Meldrew) at Henstridge and G RONK to Phil Knowles (his second EuroFOX), a very distinctive colour with leather seats as well...

We also completed the silver Breezer for Mark Houghton, maybe some of you saw this aircraft at Popham? We flew it to his strip as a special delivery service, Mark solo’ d on it 30 mins later. Before the next newsletter we have 4 EuroFOX aircraft to build, G WINO to repair and a couple of 120hp gliding tug upgrades to complete, I’m sure there is time in there somewhere for a holiday….

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“Dysoning” your aircraft?

We have been made aware that if using a Dyson vacuum cleaner, or probably any with a strong elec-tric motor to clean out your aircraft, you may experience an increase in the magnetism of the airframe. Maybe a corded vacuum would be better? Next newsletter August 18

Kabby being very well received

G CKAB (Kabby), our new 120hp fuel injected demonstrator tug, has been doing the rounds visiting 8 gliding clubs so far. Kabby weighs the same as a standard 912ULS EuroFOX and a 30% im-provement in towing performance has been established. Further more, with independent measurements comparing Kabby and a Supercub 180, towing the same DG505 2 seat glider on grass, with the same pilots, in sequence, it can be said that the towing perfor-mance is the same. This is a major step forward and offers those clubs seeking more power a new low cost option. We have 3 up-grades (912 to the 120hp) on order, expect another 2, and have 4 new 120 aircraft on order. We took a survey of all the UK tugs since 2011, nr of hours and tows, its over 10,000 hrs and 40,000 tows to date.

KABBY at Lasham