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1. 06:27 AM - Re: Hurricane Ivan (John Cooley)
2. 06:41 AM - q (russkinne)
3. 08:02 AM - It's ALIVE (Edward Steuber)
4. 09:19 AM - Re: It's ALIVE Kolb Ultrastar Modified (John Hauck)
5. 09:47 AM - Re: It's ALIVE Kolb Ultrastar Modified (cont) (John Hauck)
6. 12:55 PM - Re: Firefly Elevator (Giovanni Day)
7. 04:50 PM - Re: Firefly Elevator (herbgh@juno.com)
8. 06:31 PM - Re: Duane the Plane's Firefly N stuff (GeoR38@aol.com)
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--> Kolb-List message posted by: "John Cooley" <johnc@datasync.com>
Hello Everybody,
Got back from a 2 week hunting trip in New Mexico just in time to get ready
for Ivan. Looks like it's going to come through our back yard. I'm just a
few miles from the Ala./Ms. line and It looks like it is going to come into
Mobile which is about 35 miles from me. The hurricane force winds extend out
105 miles from the center.
I wasn't sure I could do it, but I got the partially complete MK III, the MK
II and the Firestar all in a 24 x 24 shop.
I wish all of you along the coast the best and I will say a prayer for all
of us.
Later,
John Cooley
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From: owner-kolb-list-server@matronics.com
[mailto:owner-kolb-list-server@matronics.com]On Behalf Of Rusty
Subject: RE: Kolb-List: Hurrican Ivan
--> Kolb-List message posted by: "Rusty" <13brv3c@bellsouth.net>
For all of you that are in the path of hurricane Ivan we want you to know
you are in our thoughts. May you and your families be safe.
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Thanks Bill. I'm afraid Bill Woods' old SS is not in the safest place it
could be right now. It, and my RV-3 are in their hanger at 2R4, near
Pensacola. At the moment, it looks like we'll top out around 100 mph winds,
but it's hard to say for sure. The hangers are pretty strong, so hopefully
they will hold. Our house is 4 miles from the Gulf in Navarre, but it'll be
fine, and we'll ride it out there.
Cheers,
Rusty (about 30 hours to Ivan)
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--> Kolb-List message posted by: russkinne <kinnepix@earthlink.net>
This may be too late to be of use -- but I'm sure everyone knows it's
vitally important Not to let the winds get UNDER a trailer, shed, building
or whatever. That's why trailer-parks suffer so much damage. Even stuffing
hay-bales around the edges would help a lot.
Sounds like him-acanes are even worse than her-icanes!
Good luck
Russ Kinne
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--> Kolb-List message posted by: "Edward Steuber" <esteuber@rochester.rr.com>
Finally returned to the list...Flew the "modified" Ultrastar this spring
but have not had much time to fly...only 17 hours this season and it does not
look like it will get much more use.....It looks more like a Slingshot (Ultrashot
or Slingstar) than anything else and performs well ...I was able to get all
the undesirable (for me) Ultrastar features eliminated and added a few good
options.....seat tank, center stick , firestar gear with lots of prop clearance,
cog belt reduction drive, enclosure , beefed up wings and streamline struts,
deeper fuselage for more head clearance ,and mechanical heel brakes.....
Now the negative ......hard to enter.....ailerons still a bit heavy but much
better than original ..enclosure needs more work due to air spilling in at
top....too fast (75MPH) in cruise at 5400RPM to be Ultralight....too heavy by
15 #...and of course the Cuyuna UL202 that so many of you hate ! I acquired
the engine with a recent overhaul by Tom Oelinik and it has performed perfect
as did the other Ultrastar that has 150+ no problems hours. I did have a bit of
trouble getting propellar , jet combinations correct !
I'm taking a quick break from my Cropdusting business here in Western NY
and need to get back to work...lots of business because of the wet growing season...hurricanes
too....I hope Ivan doesn't visit but ? ?
I will post some new pictures soon
Ed In Western NY
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| Subject: | Re: It's ALIVE Kolb Ultrastar Modified |
--> Kolb-List message posted by: "John Hauck" <jhauck@elmore.rr.com>
and of course the Cuyuna UL202 that so many of you hate ! |
Ed In Western NY
Hi Ed/All:
Who said that?
Problems I had with the ULII02:
1. Cases were milled to lighten to the point there was insufficient
contact surface to keep the cylinder base gaskets from leaking after a
few hours. Primarily the PTO cyl. May............had the cyl case
bolts been more convenient to get to, the cases and cyls would have
been retorqued more often and prevent leaking base cyl gaskets.
However, being lazy and wanting to fly every waking moment, back in
1984-85, some of the time consuming maintenance slipped. The engine
had to be disconnected from the eng mt in order to get at the bolts to
retorque.
2. This was a Kolb design problem, not a Cuyuna problem: Slop in
redrive system caused one belt to be tighter than the other.
Seems like a simple cure for stiff ailerons on the Ultrastar would be
relocate aileron push/pull tubes further inboard on the primary
aileron bell crank that is attached to the bottom of the tail boom.
An inch inboard would give a lot of mechanical advantage over the
stock position. The US had enough aileron to throw the wing away and
fly on ailerons alone. hehehe
Welcome back Ed.
john h
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| Subject: | Re: It's ALIVE Kolb Ultrastar Modified (cont) |
--> Kolb-List message posted by: "John Hauck" <jhauck@elmore.rr.com>
Ed/All:
Forgot to mention the good stuff.
Other than the couple things I mentioned in the previous msg, the
ULII02 was a good engine. Had CDI ign, so no timing/ign pt problems
like we had with the pt ign Rotax two strokes.
Mikuni carb was excellent.
Never fouled a spark plug, although lost a sp plug wire on the
inverted eng one day on the way to TLH, causing a forced landing.
IIRC it burned about 3.5 gph at 5,800 rpm, which was my normal cruise
speed.
We had one ULII02 go belly up in flight at 9+ hours. The double row
PTO crank bearings overheated and froze on the crank shaft.
All in all, I had good luck with it, as did others I knew that flew
with it, back in the mid-80's.
john h
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| Subject: | Firefly Elevator |
--> Kolb-List message posted by: "Giovanni Day" <gde01@bellsouth.net>
Herb,
What process are you using on the fly? Post or send some photos. Will
you be at the Kolb fly-in? Hope to see you there.
Giovanni
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[mailto:owner-kolb-list-server@matronics.com] On Behalf Of
herbgh@juno.com
Subject: Kolb-List: Firefly Elevator
--> Kolb-List message posted by: herbgh@juno.com
Kolbers
Just about ready to fly my lil Firefly. Wondering if elevator
movement should be about 30 degrees both ways?? Herb
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| Subject: | Re: Firefly Elevator |
--> Kolb-List message posted by: herbgh@juno.com
Giovanni
Looks like you have become a Kolb dealer??:-) I am having enough
trouble with one!! I bought the Fly built and covered. Went backwards
for the first month. Ready to fly minus the wing gap seal. I had a
friend in Atlanta who was headed this way and he bought the Stitts
goodies and delivered them to me. Saved me shipping and Haz material
charges. Course--I went over last fall and helped to fish him out of a
cow pasture!!:-) Guess we are even? :-)
The polytone paint(white--white-white!! ) is milky thin and seems to
have very little pigment in it. When I stirred it; I brought up very
little pigment on my stirrer. It had been sitting for weeks. Does not
cover well. I am guessing that this paint has less than 10% pigment??
Doubling up on the pigment to save money occurred to me but I did not
know how that would change the sprayibility.(I have a friend who
manufacturers paint.) So I gritted my teeth and shot several coats and
I still have Poly spray shadow here and there. I used Poly brush,spray
and tone. Poly Tack of course. Makes for a fairly cheap paint job?? 1.7
oz fabric on the wing that I redid. I was told that some version of
stitts paints or process will crack in northern climes in the winter.
Anyone hear this??
I will be at the flyin. Not sure if I will fly? This is a pretty rough
example of a firefly. Plus it is over 100 miles to Chestnut Knolls .
To do it right , I need to cover both wings again, recover the tail
feathers. The damn thing was built with splayed landing gear! Geez--I can
do that my self when I start to fly it. :-) I believe I can fix that by
drilling new holes where the gear legs fit into the fuselage.
Have the "full" enclosure on since this pic. Taxiied it yesterday and I
felt that it wanted to jump off the ground! Wants to go up on its nose
also!! Twice. Gentle though and I did not break the nose cone!
Need some trim ! Color that is! Herb
Ps I doubt that this pic will go through?
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On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 14:55:23 -0500 "Giovanni Day" <gde01@bellsouth.net>
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> Herb,
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> What process are you using on the fly? Post or send some photos.
> Will
> you be at the Kolb fly-in? Hope to see you there.
>
> Giovanni
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> [mailto:owner-kolb-list-server@matronics.com] On Behalf Of
> herbgh@juno.com
> To: kolb-list@matronics.com
> Subject: Kolb-List: Firefly Elevator
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> Just about ready to fly my lil Firefly. Wondering if elevator
> movement should be about 30 degrees both ways?? Herb
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| Subject: | Re: Duane the Plane's Firefly N stuff |
--> Kolb-List message posted by: GeoR38@aol.com
In a message dated 9/12/04 10:07:55 PM Eastern Daylight Time, N27SB@aol.com
writes:
Sorry George, I drove right by your place today but I really wanted to get
the Fly tucked in.
Hericanes and Himacanes Hate Kolbs.
Steve Boetto
WetFly #007
I hearyabuddy, and I probably wasn't home anyway, as i was workin on some
guy's golf cart...we are makin it into a P-40 Flying Tiger for a parade for
Columbus day. Mines already done...er...kinda, and there will be a couple more
for a flight.
My bird is safely tucked away now at Swiderski's castle...and I wanna
tellya, that fella is a real peach...kinda funny lookin, mind ya, but a real peach.
The story can't be told without a beer in one hand and a foot gracing a
stool rung. N that Duaneman, tell me about him!...He and i went drinkin (coffee)
at a place near Akron once and they shut er down after he left....couldn't
believe it!
lemme know when you flutter by agin:
phone 352 259 9988...home
817 3801 cell
george Randolph
firestar driver from The Villages
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