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1. 03:28 AM - one eyed pilots (pat ladd)
2. 03:44 AM - Re: First airplane list (pat ladd)
3. 06:17 AM - Firestar Pics and Videos (N111KX (Kip))
4. 06:42 AM - Re: Firestar Pics and Videos (John Hauck)
5. 06:58 AM - Re: Firestar Pics and Videos (robert bean)
6. 07:56 AM - Re: Firestar Pics and Videos (N111KX (Kip))
7. 08:33 AM - Re: one eyed pilots (Dave & Eve Pelletier)
8. 08:35 AM - Website Update (John Williamson)
9. 08:50 AM - Re: Rotax 912 fuel filter and gasolator (Kirby Dennis Contr MDA/AL)
10. 01:03 PM - Re: Vortex Generators (Jack B. Hart)
11. 06:31 PM - Mazolla-Me and slide me in! (Ralph Hoover)
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Of course, and drive a car too >>
the first lorry driver we employed when my company started only had
sight in one eye. His general driving was OK but he had trouble judging
the widthof the vehicle.
At that time we operated from a small yard with a narrow driveway for an
entrance which had brick walls on both sides. Mother used to hang her
washing out to dry down one wall and quite often this driver would leave
the yard trailing a string of washing which he had managed to pick up on
the tailboard. This was a severe blow to the budget.
You must understand that we were very poor at the time. Father was poor,
Mother was poor. The butler was poor...
Cheers
Pat
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| Subject: | Re: First airplane list |
Hi,
dont Brits get a look in on first flight the list?
Put me down for June 1964. Slingsby T21c glider.
Cheers
Pat
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| Subject: | Firestar Pics and Videos |
--> Kolb-List message posted by: "N111KX (Kip)" <n111kx@mindspring.com>
A gyro flying friend of mine have benn geting some decent shots and videos of me
and his machine. The videos are untitled but are worth the load time. Keep an
eye out for my dead stick landing over the airport (and his on page four too).
http://gyrobuilder.homelinux.org/gallery2/v/monarch_flight/july2006/?g2_page=1
Kip
Firestar II
Atlanta
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Kip
Firestar II (born September 2000)
Atlanta, GA
N111KX
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| Subject: | Re: Firestar Pics and Videos |
--> Kolb-List message posted by: "John Hauck" <jhauck@elmore.rr.com>
http://gyrobuilder.homelinux.org/gallery2/v/monarch_flight/july2006/?g2_page=1
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| Kip
Kip/Gang:
Thanks for the photos and videos. Good way to start my morning.
john h
mkIII
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| Subject: | Re: Firestar Pics and Videos |
--> Kolb-List message posted by: robert bean <slyck@frontiernet.net>
Kip, great action! Loved the closeup of your prop stopping and you
pulling away,
and your bud's neat spiral autorotation.
-BB do not archive
On 7, Jul 2006, at 9:14 AM, N111KX (Kip) wrote:
> --> Kolb-List message posted by: "N111KX (Kip)" <n111kx@mindspring.com>
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> A gyro flying friend of mine have benn geting some decent shots and
> videos of me and his machine. The videos are untitled but are worth
> the load time. Keep an eye out for my dead stick landing over the
> airport (and his on page four too).
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> http://gyrobuilder.homelinux.org/gallery2/v/monarch_flight/july2006/?
> g2_page=1
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> Kip
> Firestar II
> Atlanta
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> Kip
> Firestar II (born September 2000)
> Atlanta, GA
> N111KX
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| Subject: | Re: Firestar Pics and Videos |
--> Kolb-List message posted by: "N111KX (Kip)" <n111kx@mindspring.com>
Thanks, he has a neat gyro. You'll likely never see me in one but flying in formation
and watching all of the parts work is fun...
Kip
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Kip
Firestar II (born September 2000)
Atlanta, GA
N111KX
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| Subject: | Re: one eyed pilots |
Caution! Not Kolb related - hit "Delete" before reading.
Of course, and drive a car too >>
the first lorry driver we employed when my company started only had
sight in one eye. His general driving was OK but he had trouble judging
the widthof the vehicle.
I don't have much trouble judging the width of a vehicle, but the fore
and aft gives me fits. I don't make very good landings, but I think
that has more to do with my brain than with my eye.
You must understand that we were very poor at the time. Father was
poor, Mother was poor. The butler was poor...
............and I'll bet the butler's housekeeper didn't have much
money either!
AzDave
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--> Kolb-List message posted by: "John Williamson" <kolbrapilot2@comcast.net>
Hi All,
Just finished a major update to my website.
The Kolbra just turned 4 years old so I slimmed the website down to include only
what I think are the better photos I have taken from the Kolbra or of a Kolb.
It has been a fun very 4 years.
http://home.comcast.net/~kolbrapilot1/
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John Williamson
Arlington, TX
Kolbra, 912ULS
http://home.comcast.net/~kolbrapilot1
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| Subject: | Re: Rotax 912 fuel filter and gasolator |
--> Kolb-List message posted by: Kirby Dennis Contr MDA/AL <Dennis.Kirby@kirtland.af.mil>
<< I'd like to know your thoughts on gasolators and the brands you use.
Thanks, David >>
David, and Kolbers -
As John H does, I also use a home made gascolator. I made it from a 3 inch
long piece of 1.5" diam PVC, with end caps (2) glued on. (This was an idea
I got from someone else on this List.) It has three fittings: an incoming
fuel nipple, an outgoing fuel nipple (near the top end), and Curtis type
drain valve on the bottom. Each of these three fittings is threaded into
the PVC gascolator, and sealed a with fuel-proof Permatex goop. I installed
it at the lowest point in the fuel system, and the drain pokes out the
bottom just aft of the gear legs. Any water that gets sucked thru the fuel
lines from the tank will collect there, and can be easily drained.
I also use the glass Purolator fuel filter, with the nylon mesh screen. I
just changed the screen for the first time (at 50 hrs) a few months ago.
Although it looked fairly clean when I changed it, the mesh was actually
full of lint that is not apparent to the eye. It was nearly clogged. 50
hours is a good target number for changing the fuel filter screen.
Dennis Kirby
Mark-III, 912, in
Cedar Crest, NM
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| Subject: | Re: Vortex Generators |
--> Kolb-List message posted by: "Jack B. Hart" <jbhart@onlyinternet.net>
At 06:26 PM 6/30/06 -0500, you wrote:
> Hi Gang Just received my July 2006,
>EAA Sport Pilot magazine.On page 27,
>there is a story about vortex
>generators, cuffs, fences and stall
>strips.
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Bill,
I just received my copy today. It was a good article, and it pretty much
indicates what effect VG's can have on a Kolb. One of the planes shown was
a "vintage J-3 Cub".
I have seen VG's on thick wing heavy lifter STOL aircraft. Just before I
moved to Indiana, a fellow moved a MOOSE, Murphy Aircraft Mfg. Ltd., into
the communal hangar. It had vortex generators on top of the wings, on the
bottom of the horizontal stabilizers, and on each side of the vertical
stabilizer. I took my step stool down and measured things. The VG placement
on the Moose wing was almost identical in proportion to what I have on the
FireFly. The wing chord was a little longer than my FireFly but the span
was 14 feet larger. It was a good feeling to hangar with such a strong
beast.
Before I closed the hangar door for the last time and slipped the key under
the door, I looked at it again. It was a rare occurance, that a MOOSE
showed up at Perryville, Missouri, and I doubt that one will find its way to
Winchester, Indiana.
Jack B. Hart FF004
Winchester, IN
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| Subject: | Mazolla-Me and slide me in! |
--> Kolb-List message posted by: "Ralph Hoover" <flht99reh@Columbus.rr.com>
Last week was the first time since I had my full wind screen off that I tried to
get into my Firestar Single 1990 KXP. It now has the doors and the full canopy
from nose cone up to wings. And guess what!
At 230 pounds and 6'1" tall with two bad legs and two bad knees, I have to almost
but not quite Butter my body to get into that teensy little slit along the
side. Whats with that?
I have viewed several Firestars with the darned tube running along the center from
the top bow below the wings all the way down to the instrument panel. When
I first looked at them I thought there is a sure way to go "cross-eyed". Reminded
me of that movie about the handle traversing the bridge area of the nose
(on your face, not on the plane) so's one could remove their glasses easly. Backfired
on the inventor and he went from riches to rags cause all of his customers
became cross-eyed, and sued him.
So now I find myself havin to give consideration to one of three choices:
1). keep what I have and begin working out.
2). stop eating, loose weight and shorten both legs.
or...........
3). Switch over to the split down the middle, braced windscreen, for year around
flying.
Help....any assistance here!
Perplexed, confused and slidding around in my seat here in Ohio, Ralph!
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