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1. 05:03 AM - Re: Re: How do you like your FireFly? (N27SB@aol.com)
2. 05:35 AM - Mission Specific (N27SB@aol.com)
3. 09:51 AM - Re: Re: Flight characteristics of the Kolb FSII & The Challenger (neilsenrm@comcast.net)
4. 10:24 AM - Re: Re: Flight characteristics of the Kolb FSII & The Challenger (Jim Kmet)
5. 10:36 AM - Re: Re: Flight characteristics of the Kolb FSII & The Challenger (Richard Pike)
6. 10:55 AM - Re: Re: Flight characteristics of the Kolb FSII & The Challenger (pj.ladd)
7. 11:30 AM - Re: Is this a Kolb? (pj.ladd)
8. 12:17 PM - FSII VS Drifter (Lanny Fetterman)
9. 12:56 PM - Re: Re: Flight characteristics of the Kolb FSII & The Challenger (John Hauck)
10. 02:39 PM - Re: FSII VS Drifter (robert bean)
11. 02:52 PM - Re: FSII VS Drifter (John Hauck)
12. 03:02 PM - Re: FSII VS Drifter (Larry Cottrell)
13. 03:09 PM - Re: FSII VS Drifter (robert bean)
14. 05:26 PM - Re: How do you like your FireFly? (JetPilot)
15. 05:39 PM - per request some more pix of the M3X (Ron)
16. 06:05 PM - Re: Re: Flight characteristics of the Kolb FSII & The Challenger (Ron)
17. 06:36 PM - Re: FSII VS Drifter (Eugene Zimmerman)
18. 07:09 PM - Re: Re: Flight characteristics of the Kolb FSII & The Challenger (DAquaNut@aol.com)
19. 07:20 PM - Re: Re: Flight characteristics of the Kolb FSII & The Challenger (DAquaNut@aol.com)
20. 07:41 PM - Okefenokee (Larry Bourne)
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| Subject: | Re: How do you like your FireFly? |
In a message dated 12/21/2007 11:58:44 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
ulflyer@verizon.net writes:
The only people I ever hear talk about some planes
>"having to much power" are pilots of doggy, sluggish airplanes that
>are trying to convince themselves that a lack of power is a good thing.
>
>Mike
Mike, the Firefly is a VERY Mission Specific aircraft, It was designed from
the tires up to :
Be Part 103
Use a 447
Be exciting to fly
It is one of the few aircraft that meet that goal. (probably the only one)
The Part 103 allowance
Aircraft 254
Floats 60
BRS 24
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Total 338
Mine weighs 337
A 447 vs a 503 is not an issue of too much power, it is one of too much
vibrating mass.
There is "Firefly" designed to use a 503 and be registered EAB. It is called
a Firestar II.
If you get a chance one day fly up to Bartow Airport and I will pick you up,
It's about 3 miles. I can strap you into a Firefly with a 447 and a 60#
handicap of floats.
"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, It's the size of the fight in
the dog." Mark Twain
(My apologies to Bob N. if I got that wrong)
Steve B
Firefly 007/Floats
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| Subject: | Mission Specific |
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150 feet, Glassy Water, No Pig Here
My Playground, Notice all the lakes and also Lakeland Airport to the west.
Click on the map link above.
By the Way, Very few aircraft of any kind can be off and gone in 150' on
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| Subject: | Re: Flight characteristics of the Kolb FSII & The Challenger |
Haven't we beaten this Challenger thing to death????
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Rick Neilsen
Redrive VW powered MKIIIC "Kolb"
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I as J D have listened to the comments Kolb vs Challenger and had to say something.
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| Subject: | Re: Flight characteristics of the Kolb FSII & The Challenger |
Rick,doesn`t just about all the topics get beaten to death? The way
around it it to ask specifically for facts on a subject, not opinions.
: ) Jim
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From: neilsenrm@comcast.net
To: kolb-list@matronics.com
Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2007 11:50 AM
Subject: RE: Kolb-List: Re: Flight characteristics of the Kolb FSII &
The Challenger
Haven't we beaten this Challenger thing to death????
Do not archive
Rick Neilsen
Redrive VW powered MKIIIC "Kolb"
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From: ross richardson <smlplanet@msn.com>
I as J D have listened to the comments Kolb vs Challenger and had to
say something.
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| Subject: | Re: Flight characteristics of the Kolb FSII & The Challenger |
What one person deems a fact, proved by objective experiment, is to
someone else on the list nothing more than an opinion.
Guess how I know this?
Richard Pike
MKIII N420P (420ldPoops)
Jim Kmet wrote:
> Rick,doesn`t just about all the topics get beaten to death? The way
> around it it to ask specifically for facts on a subject, not
> opinions. : ) Jim
> *
> *
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| Subject: | Re: Flight characteristics of the Kolb FSII & The Challenger |
Haven't we beaten this Challenger thing to death???? >>
Yes, yes, yes. yes. I really don`t know how I have been cast as the
Challenger champion. Just because I flew one and it seemed to me that my
experience was at odds with the often second hand stories which were
being passed on as facts. I promise to stop.
Incidentally I wonder how many Challengers were sold against the Kolbs?
Cheers
Pat :-)
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| Subject: | Re: Is this a Kolb? |
Not completely sure, but it looks like a Rans>>
Hi Lar,
love the comment from Manager of Emergency Services `In the circumstances
the pilot made a near perfect landing`. Jeez, I would love to see a picture
of what he considers a bad landing
Cheers
Pat :-)
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GOT YA, Merry Christmas to all, no matter what you fly! : ) Lanny
Fetterman N598LF Do not archive!
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| Subject: | Re: Flight characteristics of the Kolb FSII & The Challenger |
Patrick:
Besides you, who really gives a big fat rat's ass?
Merry Xmas and Happy New Year! ;-)
Anonymous Kolb Builder/Pilot
hauck's holler, alabama (hehehe)
Incidentally I wonder how many Challengers were sold against the
Kolbs?
Pat :-)
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| Subject: | Re: FSII VS Drifter |
Lanny, you are aware that you are amidst the lonely, the desperate
and the clueless here at
the Kolb List. -otherwise we would be doing something a little more
stimulating.
BTW, I would LOVE to give a go at a flight in a Drifter. On a calm
summer day of course.
To all who are tuned in here, enjoy the short light holiday with all
you hold close to your heart.
BB
On 22, Dec 2007, at 3:11 PM, Lanny Fetterman wrote:
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> GOT YA, Merry Christmas to all, no matter what you fly! : ) Lanny
> Fetterman N598LF Do not archive!
>
>
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| Subject: | Re: FSII VS Drifter |
> To all who are tuned in here, enjoy the short light holiday with all
> you hold close to your heart.
> BB
Hey Bob:
Ain't no need gettin all mushy now, just cause it is Xmas.
Pat your mkIII on the head and crank up the old Model A for me.
Hope the snow is not too much more than belly button deep in your neck of
the woods.
Merry Xmas and Happy New Year to Bob Bean and the rest of the Kolb List.
You too Jack H. Awe.......come on now, give us a smile Jack. We all love
you.
john h
mkIII
hauck's holler, alabama
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| Subject: | Re: FSII VS Drifter |
----- Original Message -----
From: "robert bean" <slyck@frontiernet.net>
Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2007 3:29 PM
Subject: Re: Kolb-List: FSII VS Drifter
>
> Lanny, you are aware that you are amidst the lonely, the desperate and
> the clueless here at
> the Kolb List. -otherwise we would be doing something a little more
> stimulating.
>
> BTW, I would LOVE to give a go at a flight in a Drifter. On a calm
> summer day of course.
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Perhaps some of you will remember the Drifter take off from MV this last
year by the friend of Arty's who had just purchased the plane from a friend.
I think the key word is "calm summer day", as I recall he screamed like a
little girl on the flight to Delta Utah. It took him four to five hours more
to reach our destination than either Arty (single place drifter) or I (Kolb
Firestar II).
Larry C
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| Subject: | Re: FSII VS Drifter |
As you may have suspected, I DO live in Lower Slobbovia, NY
Thom Riddle is fortunate enough to be a suburbanite.
http://www.lil-abner.com/slobovia.html
BB, N3851E (originally issued in 1947, in my logbook since 1971)
On 22, Dec 2007, at 5:50 PM, John Hauck wrote:
>
> > To all who are tuned in here, enjoy the short light holiday with all
>> you hold close to your heart.
>> BB
>
>
> Hey Bob:
>
> Ain't no need gettin all mushy now, just cause it is Xmas.
>
> Pat your mkIII on the head and crank up the old Model A for me.
>
> Hope the snow is not too much more than belly button deep in your
> neck of the woods.
>
> Merry Xmas and Happy New Year to Bob Bean and the rest of the Kolb
> List. You too Jack H. Awe.......come on now, give us a smile
> Jack. We all love you.
>
> john h
> mkIII
> hauck's holler, alabama
>
>
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| Subject: | Re: How do you like your FireFly? |
Unfortunately, I can only have one Kolb... Being that my wife likes to fly, the
MK-III Xtra was the logical choice for me, although I would like to try them
all :)
I also fly a 103 trike with a 447, its a nice setup, but some guys put 503's on
them and say its a great upgrade ! As far as I am concerned, for flying around
the local area, the smaller the plane, the more fun it is :)
Mike
--------
"NO FEAR" - If you have no fear you did not go as fast as you could
have !!!
Kolb MK-III Xtra, 912-S
Read this topic online here:
http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=153746#153746
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| Subject: | per request some more pix of the M3X |
I think I am going to name my airplane the apogee, seems like a name that may help
me to get it to fly. anyway here are some pictures. I had some others, however,,,,,
I decided to upgrade my Mac to the latest OS called Leopard and it obliterated
the iPhoto program. I can't find the pix from yesterday. They are in
the camera so not lost. I'll try uploading them from the HP, maybe tomorrow.
these are attachments so they should not slow anyone down.
Ron
Sierra Vista, Arizona
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| Subject: | Re: Flight characteristics of the Kolb FSII & The Challenger |
The only way to fully settle this issue is to have a Kolber and a Challenged get
into their respective aerial chariots, fire them up and climb skyward. Each
one at a different end of a runway. At an agreed up on altitude, and time noted
by a red flare, they both advance their sky chariot's throttle to full power,
and then speed towards each other at the most power that their warring machines
can put out, and smash into the other fellow at full time speed inertia, and
see who is the winner. Its also important that they tell some trusted friends
who will with high resolution video camera record the event and then upload
it onto U-tube. So any arguments that may occur as to who won can be settled
factually by all observers. Now I want to make sure that I ad to allay any possibility
of behind sued over this that I think its not a very good idea, and if
it will be done it should be done in a land outside the United States, by foreign
nationals maybe el quida types.
Ron
only 10 miles from the famous OK Corral, where men settled their differences in
pretty much the same way. :-)
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Merry Christmas everybody
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Haven't we beaten this Challenger thing to death???? >>
Yes, yes, yes. yes. I really don`t know how I have been cast as the Challenger
champion. Just because I flew one and it seemed to me that my experience was at
odds with the often second hand stories which were being passed on as facts.
I promise to stop.
Incidentally I wonder how many Challengers were sold against the Kolbs?
Cheers
Pat :-)
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kugelair.com
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| Subject: | Re: FSII VS Drifter |
On Dec 22, 2007, at 5:29 PM, robert bean wrote:
> BTW, I would LOVE to give a go at a flight in a Drifter. On a calm
> summer day of course.
Bob,
They have great performance, with unrivaled visibility. Loads of
fun ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, on a warm day?
I have a nice one for sale.
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=d3jhg27_0fr7x2tcf
PS
I'm selling it to help support my Kolb habit. :^)
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| Subject: | Re: Flight characteristics of the Kolb FSII & The Challenger |
In a message dated 12/22/2007 12:24:59 P.M. Central Standard Time,
jlsk1@frontiernet.net writes:
Rick,doesn`t just about all the topics get beaten to death? The way around
it it to ask specifically for facts on a subject, not opinions
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| Subject: | Re: Flight characteristics of the Kolb FSII & The Challenger |
In a message dated 12/22/2007 9:10:10 P.M. Central Standard Time,
DAquaNut@aol.com writes:
Rick,doesn`t just about all the topics get beaten to death? The way around
it it to ask specifically for facts on a subject, not opinions
Sorry to send this the first time it was unintentional.
Ed Diebel FF 62 Merry Christmas All
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Seems like a fella sent an email to the List a few weeks ago who
mentioned he lives just north of Okefenokee in GA. Would that fella
please email me off-List ? Thanks
Lar. Do not Archive.
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