I'm installing the jury struts and have a question on alignment.

My question is: Are the jury struts supposed to be longitudinally aligned with the slip stream?

I understand the struts should be vertical and perpendicular to the cabin floor. I also get it that the lift struts should be straight and the jury strut brackets should be in line with the strut tubing and centered on the spars.

When I get all the points lined up, the jury struts are angled outward by maybe one inch. If I align the jury struts fore and aft, the front bracket is short of reaching the forward spar by 3/8 inch.

I plan on making longer brackets, I just want to know if I'm missing something. Is this typical of the Kitfox?

John Pitkin
Greenville, TX