KFIR- The Ultimate Mirage!!!
 

Here are a few pictures of my JHI,KFIR. It has a Wren 54 MK3 and weighs a little over 14 lbs.

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what a buti
have a good luck with him
wondeful

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What colors and paint did you use?

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WOW! Very nice. When I was in the Marine Corps we used Kfir a/c as agressors. We still may. They were a good a/c, powered by J-79 turbojets same as the Phantoms. Have you flown her yet? What a pretty plane. I would love to see some in flight shots-

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There are very few delta's I like, the Kfir is one of the ones I really like, yours looks awesome, makes me wish I still had my JHH Kfir kit that I had years ago.
I like the Kfir, the Rafale, and the Viggen, the rest are ok but nothing I'd model based on looks.
Very nice job on your Kfir! When I had my kit I wanted to do it in the scheme that had the big orange triangle's on the wings and fin.
Looking forward to hearing how your maiden goes!

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Here's a few more inflight pictures from the 13th Annual Big Apple Jet Rally. The KFIR originally had a sim jet 1200. It was almost lost on its first flight because it was too tail heavy. After adjusting the CG (1 inch foward of the original CG), it flew very well, but the sim jet 1200 did not seem to put out enough power for my taste. I sold the sim jet only to find out that it was set on the lowest power setting which was about 8 pounds of thrust. I hope that it will fly much better with the wren 54 which puts out about 15 pounds of thrust.
The paint used was water based house paint and water based poly. The finish was extremely light.
Does anyone know what the CG is on this airplane?

RE: KFIR- The Ultimate Mirage!!!
 

Here's a few more inflight pictures from the 13th Annual Big Apple Jet Rally. The KFIR originally had a sim jet 1200. It was almost lost on its first flight because it was too tail heavy. After adjusting the CG (1 inch foward of the original CG), it flew very well, but the sim jet 1200 did not seem to put out enough power for my taste. I sold the sim jet only to find out that it was set on the lowest power setting which was about 8 pounds of thrust. I hope that it will fly much better with the wren 54 which puts out about 15 pounds of thrust.
The paint used was water based house paint and water based poly. The finish was extremely light.
Does anyone know what the CG is on this airplane? I forgot to mark the CG when i took the sim jet 1200 out and the only CG i have is for the sport built up 45 inch wing (mine is the 42 foam wing).

RE: KFIR- The Ultimate Mirage!!!
 

Here's a few more inflight pictures from the 13th Annual Big Apple Jet Rally. The KFIR originally had a sim jet 1200. It was almost lost on its first flight because it was too tail heavy. After adjusting the CG (1 inch foward of the original CG), it flew very well, but the sim jet 1200 did not seem to put out enough power for my taste. I sold the sim jet only to find out that it was set on the lowest power setting which was about 8 pounds of thrust. I hope that it will fly much better with the wren 54 which puts out about 15 pounds of thrust.
The paint used was water based house paint and water based poly. The finish was extremely light.
Does anyone know what the CG is on this airplane? I forgot to mark the CG when i took the sim jet 1200 out and the only CG i have is for the sport built up 45 inch wing (mine is the 42 foam wing).

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That is NICE!

Well done!

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Very nice. What manufacturer is the kit, or is it scratch built?

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Wow dude, need to bring it down to Texas so we can play Iron Eagle!!

I can bring my Ipod docking station and play "were not gonna take it......oh no we ain't gonna take this"

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Yep.. I think they're up at Fallon, NV now. They were given the designation of F-21, the Kfir's the US leased were older C-1 versions without the fixed canards.

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FalconWing, that is a beautiful F-16.Is it a Yellow Aircraft F-16? What are you using for power? I had a YA F-16 with aT500,good combo. and a great flying airplane. I like the paint job.:D

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MAX NITRO, my Kfir is a JHI kit.

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The F-21's were returned to Isreal in 1989

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Very Beautiful!!

I have had the fortune to find a new in box Byron Kfir (here in Italy is very rare......) and I hope for receiving the box in this week...!!

Bye! ;)

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For all you Kfir lovers

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Nothing beats the IAF paint scheme.. and i mean nothing ! :D

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Mark,

Man that is a sweet looking Kfir! The MW-54 will fly the heck out of it I tell you what! I really gotta get my Mirage done.

I would love to get some pictures up on our website. I'm sending a PM with my email, etc.



Chris

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Not all of them. I saw a pair at the MCAS Miramar Airshow just 2 years ago.

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Mark,

JHI are not the only ones to want pics for their website! We'd like one too. That is really unusual and I'm sure, as Chris says, the 54Mk 3 will fly the heck out of it.

Sara Parish
Wren Turbines

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A Gold 44 will flt the heck out of it. :)

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Very nice plane [sm=thumbs_up.gif]

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Nice looking Kfir.


I agree. The IAF scheme is very visible against a blue or cloudy sky. The paint schemes for the last three jets I built were based on the IAF scheme.

Kirk S.

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Doug,
The US military returned the Kfir's by mid 1989. The ones at Fallon are owned by a Civilian company who has 5 of them. They are all C-2 models though I believe (rather than the C-1's the F21's were based on)

http://www1.airliners.net/photo/ATAC-(Airborne-Tactical/ATAC-(Airborne-Tactical/0969182