Walking along the endless lines of experimental aircraft at Oshkosh is a genuine adventure of exploration. And it is an exploration of ingenuity too! Think about it, - where else other than in Oshkosh you could see so much evidence that experimental aviation is being driven by a bunch of truly ’smart’ people.
Even in some small detail those ‘tinkerers’ try to demonstrate a good deal of creativity, - like on this Kitfox plane, - apparently, builders have succeeded in giving it a look of ‘radial powered bush plane’. See the its nose with mock cylinders’ images painted on the engine’s cowling! But if we removed the cowling, we could find just a modification of regular Rotax under it.
Interestingly, Kitfox’s manufacturers are optionally providing kits with the rounded bump cowling intended to give the plane ‘nostalgic bush look’. For those who Dreaming of a radial! 
Here’s one more Kitfox with that same round ‘bumped’ cowling.
A very nice version on floats was met at the ‘AirVenture’ float base
Make sure it is Kitfox
In this post I wrote about the M-14P Russian radial engine powering a Canadian kit plane. However, it was a pleasure to see another radial, now from Australia.
It seems the ‘Rotec‘ was purposely created to fulfill that ‘longing for a radial’ observed among builders of vintage-looking replicas. I wonder, if somebody’s already put this marvelous round engine on one of the Kitfoxes..
In my turn I should tell you that whenever I see the ‘Rotec’, I’m thinking particularly of one Yakovlev plane..
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