Eurofox

Eurofox

Overview

Fuselage

Powerplant

Wing

Wing of rec­tan­gu­lar plat­form with its own aero­foil sec­tion is of frame struc­ture with two spar tubes and the sys­tem of diag­o­nal struts and sys­tem of ribs. Al-alloy tubes of 63 mm die­mater are rein­forced in the hinges regions by tubes of cor­re­spond­ing diam­e­ter. A sys­tem of ribs con­sists of 14 ribs and of 13 aux. ribs sup­port­ing the fab­ric skin in the front wing area. In the hor­i­zon­tal plane the wing is braced by a sys­tem of diag­o­nal steel spar tube. The 2×25,5 l fuel tanks are housed in the wing root part. Tanks are weld­ed from Al-alloy sheet. The lead­ing edge shape is guar­an­teed by a fiber­glass part bond­ed in front of the spar tube. The trail­ing edge is fit­ted with an Al-alloy shaped bat­ten. The wing is cov­ered by syn­thet­ic fab­ric POLY FIBER, with applied stretch­ing lac­quer and sprayed by a first-rate exte­ri­or enam­el. flap­er­ons (Junkers flap) are attached through five hinges to the ribs under the wing trail­ing edge. The flap­per­on struc­ture con­sists of Al-alloy tube and lam­i­nate sand­wich (foam, epoxy resin, glass) formed in a neg­a­tive mould. Both wings are attached to the fuse­lage in the upper part through the main tube hinges and in the bot­toom part by the hinges of the “V” ‑shaped wing struts. The sys­tem of com­mon rear wing hinge and tilt truss axes allows the wing to tilt along the fuse­lage rear part. This saves a lot of stor­age place and allows the road trans­port.

Electric system

Elec­tric sys­tem is formed sin­gle-wire sys­tem of cabling with ground con­nec­tion neg­a­tive pole. Net­work sup­plies alter­na­tor with rec­ti­fi­er with 250W pow­er and accu­mu­la­tor 12V / 16Ah. Board net­work is switched by a switch key of switch box. Indi­vid­ual cir­cuits of appli­ances are switched by sep­a­rate switch­es and pro­tect­ed by a safe­ty lim­it switch.

Cockpit

Euro­fox has roomy cock­pit 112cm — wider than a Cess­na 172!  Our instru­ment pan­el is spe­cial in that it allows the use of almost any large-screen GPS (includ­ing the iPad or iPad mini!), while most (vir­tu­al­ly all) oth­er S‑LSA planes have instru­ment pan­els that have sort of boxed them­selves in and don’t have room (at least not in the best spot) for a large-screen GPS and pan­el has a large map pock­et. You can access to the lug­gage area while fly­ing (many planes have lug­gage com­part­ments that can­not be accessed while inflight).

The air­craft has two uphol­stered side-by-side. Each is equipped with four-point seat­belt. Lug­gage com­part­ment with dimen­sion 500 x 300 x 400 mm is sit­u­at­ed behind the seats. Is designed for max­i­mum 10 kg. Euro­fox has clear poly­car­bon­ate gull-wing doors equipped with gas-lift struts and with doors quick-remov­able (for fly­ing with­out doors!)

Fuel system

Fuel sys­tem has a total capac­i­ty of 86 l. It con­sists of two wing tanks (40 l each) and of an 5 l equal­iz­ing tank in the fuse­lage, con­nect­ed through the pipes with the fuel cock and fil­ter. Fuel lev­el indi­ca­tors are part of each tank, the min­im­im fuel warn­ing light is mount­ed as stan­dard.

Control of the aeroplane

The aero­plane is equipped by dual stick con­trol. Ele­va­tor and ailerons are con­trolled by a sys­tem of rods where­as the rud­der is cable con­trolled. The wing flaps are con­trolled by the lever and rod and through the coun­ter­shaft is thread­ed into aileron-flap­per­on cir­cuit. Trim con­trol is mount­ed as a stan­dard. All engine con­trols are placed on the instru­ment board. Rud­der con­trol – ped­als of foot con­trol are sit­u­at­ed on the floor in front part of cock­pit. Mov­ing of ped­als is trans­mit­ted on the rud­der through steel cable. Wing flaps – han­dle of wing flaps is sit­u­at­ed in mid­dle part of cock­pit.

Specifications

Types of undercarriage

Eurofox 2K Version

Euro­fox 2K tail­drag­ger fea­tures a com­pos­ite main land­ing gear and has wide-spaced main wheels to aid with cross-wind land­ings and take­offs, as well as result­ing in supe­ri­or ground han­dling. As tail­drag­gers go, the for­ward vis­i­bil­i­ty is very good and with the Euro­fox 2K hav­ing clear poly­car­bon­ate doors the vis­i­bil­i­ty out the side of the air­craft is excep­tion­al.

Euro­FOX 2K is a tail­drag­ger type with con­trolled tail wheel and are equipped by the pre­mi­um Beringer dual toe brake sys­tem oper­at­ed from the left and right seat and is avail­able with sev­er­al tire options.

stan­dard-size rib tires (15x6x6) with wheel pants
Carlisle tun­dra tires (18x8x6)
Aero Clas­sic tun­dra tires (21×8.00×6)
Airstreak 26″ tun­dra tires (26x12x6)

EuroFOX 3K Version

Euro­FOX 3K a fixed tri­cy­cle under­car­riage with a con­trol­lable nose wheel.This wheel is equipped by the tire with dimen­sion 4.00–4 with tube. Main under­car­riage car­ry low-presure tires with the dimen­sions 15×6.00–6 with tube (or 14×4 /4.00–6/) and are equipped by the hydraulic disk brakes oper­at­ed from the left and right seat. A park­ing brake is option­al.

TOW version

The Euro­FOX has been aero­tow­ing in world for a decade, most sites being dif­fi­cult grass airstrips. The Euro­FOX can be spec­i­fied as a tail drag­ger or nose wheel, and with the major­i­ty of EU glid­ing sites being unpaven grass strips, often bog­gy, some­times short in length, only the Euro­FOX tail drag­ger with tun­dra tyres will do.

It is a fact of life that oth­ers will try to fol­low a suc­cess­ful, inno­v­a­tive and mar­ket lead­ing prod­uct. How­ev­er, glid­ing clubs choose future tugs based on per­for­mance, suit­abil­i­ty, val­ue, usabil­i­ty, dura­bil­i­ty and pilot safe­ty: in all these aspects and more, the Euro­FOX is unri­valled as a ded­i­cat­ed liq­uid cooled Rotax 912 or 915 tug.

Folding wings

Paint Schemes

Classic paint schemes

note : Clas­sic paint schemes includes one sprayed body col­or and two col­ors for stick­ers. Body and stick­ers col­or are option­al.

Special paint schemes

note : spe­cial paint schemes includes two or more sprayed body col­ors. Body col­ors are option­al.

Samplers

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