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1. 07:12 AM - Re: Re: Pictures !!! Flying a Kolb Around South Florida... (russ kinne)
2. 07:39 AM - Re: Kolb MK3X possibly for sell (watercooled VW engine) (Richard & Martha Neilsen)
3. 08:05 AM - Re: wing attachment hardware (boyd)
4. 08:43 AM - Re: Brake lines (KOLB AIRCRAFT)
5. 09:22 AM - Re: Brake lines (Jim)
6. 10:35 AM - Re: wing attachment hardware (olendorf)
7. 12:23 PM - Re: Pictures !!! Flying a Kolb Around South Arizona... (JetPilot)
8. 01:42 PM - Re: Re: I'm so disappointed...... (pj.ladd)
9. 03:41 PM - Re: Re: I'm so disappointed...... (russ kinne)
10. 03:48 PM - Re: Re: I'm so disappointed...... (herb)
11. 04:15 PM - Re: Re: I'm so disappointed...... (possums)
12. 04:17 PM - Re: wing attachment hardware (Steven Green)
13. 04:32 PM - Re: Re: I'm so disappointed...... (Dana Hague)
14. 04:34 PM - Flying the salt river east of Phoenix (Nelson, Craig)
15. 04:35 PM - Re: Re: wing attachment hardware (Dana Hague)
16. 04:46 PM - Re: Flying the salt river east of Phoenix (Dana Hague)
17. 05:52 PM - Flying the Salt river (Nelson, Craig)
18. 11:26 PM - How do I learn to fly Ultrastar? Help please. (petebarry99)
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| Subject: | Re: Pictures !!! Flying a Kolb Around South Florida... |
Dana
Just FYI, in regards to
:
> Dana,
>
> I guess we know what happens on runway 32 when people have engine
> problems at your airport.
>
> Its Under the bridge and look for shallow water to ditch....perhaps
> life vests are more important than parachutes for you guys.....LOL
> I HAVE flown under this bridge! -- When on T/O, on floats, & I
> wasn't going to get over it with a safe margin. And FAA, please
> don't bother with this; it was many years ago & I'd object most
> strenuously.
Dana, most nice pix, and thanx for posting them. There's noplplace
in the world better than Connecticut in October -- IMHO
Russ
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| Subject: | Re: Kolb MK3X possibly for sell (watercooled VW engine) |
Rick
I'm very disappointed you are thinking about selling.
For those of you that aren't familiar with the VW engine Rick has put on his
plane. Rick L please correct any misunderstandings. It is a Great Plains
2276cc engine with light weight Nikasil cylinders and the Valley Series 3
redrive. The water cooled part of this engine is much more than just
cooling. The water cooing package included a tuned intake system with
carburetor ( bing?), heads, water pump, and radiators. The Performance
improvement with this package is spectacular. I think one could
conservatively say that this engine would perform along side a 100hp Rotax
and likely blow its doors off. For reliability's sake one would want to
cruise at lower power settings but the climb rate could be unbelievable. The
water cooling would also solve the on the ground over heating issue a
air-cooled pusher engine has. With all this said don't run out and try to
buy the water cooling package. I was told that manufacturer was so concerned
about someone stealing their design that they restricted sales to the USA
and failed to get enough demand to stay in business.
This is also the first Kolb built VW engine mount. Rick did a great service
by working directly with Kolb to get this done. I know of at least two other
VW powered Kolbs being built because of his efforts.
Rick Neilsen
Flying Redrive VW powered MKIIIC
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick Lewis" <cktman@hughes.net>
Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 7:21 PM
Subject: Kolb-List: Kolb MK3X possibly for sell (watercooled VW engine)
>
> I am seriously thinking about selling my unfinished Kolb. I've lost
> interest since my partner has bailed out on me. This would be a truely
> quick build aircraft since the wings, horizonal stab, rudder, elevators,
> aerons, and flaps are all done except for covering. The cage is set up
> for the WATER COOLED VW engine which is assemble and included in the deal.
> I am not looking for any profit on the plane just the actual money I have
> in it. All the many hours of labor to this point will be free. I haven't
> added all the reciepts up yet to come up with a cost but I thought I would
> send this post out to see if anyone would be seriously interested.
> Hopefully I won't get to many tire kickers here.
>
> Rick Lewis (VW Watercooled powered)
>
>
> Read this topic online here:
>
> http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=210045#210045
>
>
> Attachments:
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> http://forums.matronics.com//files/vw_engine_001_714.jpg
> http://forums.matronics.com//files/3_341.jpg
> http://forums.matronics.com//files/12_158.jpg
> http://forums.matronics.com//files/misc_pics_050_113.jpg
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| Subject: | wing attachment hardware |
If the pins are too short to put on a washer.... get longer pins. Or go
with bolts and nuts,,, remember some areas are not designed to be tightened
down with lots of torque on the bolts... I would tighten so that you could
still easily rotate the bolt by hand.
Boyd Young
Kolb MKIIIC
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
What kind of hardware are you all using for your wing attachment?
Most of mine are the clevis pins w/ cowling safety clips. Some are too short
to get a washer on underneath the clip. This doesn't look very safe to me.
Are these ok or is it better to go with bolts and castle nuts?
Keath T
Mk III C
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JIM, DONNIE HERE, IF YOU HAVE A FAX # SEND TO ME AND I WILL FAX COPIES
OF THE NAMES OF THOSE YOU GAVE RIDES TO AT THE FLY-IN. THANKS DONNIE.
----- Original Message -----
From: Jim
To: kolb-list@matronics.com
Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2008 12:03 PM
Subject: Kolb-List: Brake lines
Guys, & Gals, I`ve got a set of older matco brakes, that were removed
from a MK-3C, going back on a MK-3C. I need new brake lines, & the
removed tubing sez," 1/4 inch by .035 Parker Parflex"
I've looked in the following cataloges:
Aircraft Spruce, CPS, LEAF, Wag Aero, & Lockwood. All I see in any of
them is 3/16 brake line.
I also would like new compresion fittings.
Any Idea where to get this from?
Also, Matcos website sez only use the aviation brake fluid, but
someone told me that Automatic transmission fluid was what to use.
Please, Facts only.
Thanks,
Jim Kmet
Cookeville, TN
MK-3C & MK-3C
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931-526-6865
Thanks !!! Jim
----- Original Message -----
From: KOLB AIRCRAFT
To: kolb-list@matronics.com
Sent: Friday, October 10, 2008 6:43 AM
Subject: Re: Kolb-List: Brake lines
JIM, DONNIE HERE, IF YOU HAVE A FAX # SEND TO ME AND I WILL FAX COPIES O
F THE NAMES OF THOSE YOU GAVE RIDES TO AT THE FLY-IN. THANKS DONNIE.
----- Original Message -----
From: Jim
To: kolb-list@matronics.com
Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2008 12:03 PM
Subject: Kolb-List: Brake lines
Guys, & Gals, I`ve got a set of older matco brakes, that were removed f
rom a MK-3C, going back on a MK-3C. I need new brake lines, & the removed t
ubing sez," 1/4 inch by .035 Parker Parflex"
I've looked in the following cataloges:
Aircraft Spruce, CPS, LEAF, Wag Aero, & Lockwood. All I see in any of
them is 3/16 brake line.
I also would like new compresion fittings.
Any Idea where to get this from?
Also, Matcos website sez only use the aviation brake fluid, but someone
told me that Automatic transmission fluid was what to use.
Please, Facts only.
Thanks,
Jim Kmet
Cookeville, TN
MK-3C & MK-3C
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| Subject: | Re: wing attachment hardware |
What purpose does the washer provide in this case? The FAA inspector that gave
me the airworthiness inspection also recommended I put washers under the cowling
pins. I can only assume it would cut down an pin wear if the clevis pin was
rotating. I didn't add the washers. I have the cowling pin in my hand twice
every time I fly. If it was worn out I'd know it.
--------
Scott Olendorf
Original Firestar, Rotax 447, Powerfin prop
Schenectady, NY
http://KolbFirestar.googlepages.com
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| Subject: | Re: Pictures !!! Flying a Kolb Around South Arizona... |
The Southwest has to be one of the prettiest areas in the country to fly over.
I hope to fly these areas one of these days, thanks for posting.
Mike
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"NO FEAR" - If you have no fear you did not go as fast as you could
have !!!
Kolb MK-III Xtra, 912-S
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| Subject: | Re: I'm so disappointed...... |
Weather your plane weighs 254 pounds or 274 pounds really does not affect
anyone... >>
I love it. Unfortunately any country, capitalist,socialist, fascist or what
have you which allows its members to pick and choose which particular bits
of the law they will bother to obey must inevitably descend into chaos.
Enjoy while you can.
Cheers
Pat
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| Subject: | Re: I'm so disappointed...... |
Pat:
Tell me what country is NOT 'descending into chaos'. Mine sure is.
NOW! -- Kolb-related; how's your Kolb?
Russ
PS You mean weather, or whether?
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On Oct 24, 2008, at 4:42 PM, pj.ladd wrote:
>
> Weather your plane weighs 254 pounds or 274 pounds really does not
> affect anyone... >>
>
> I love it. Unfortunately any country, capitalist,socialist, fascist
> or what have you which allows its members to pick and choose which
> particular bits of the law they will bother to obey must inevitably
> descend into chaos.
>
> Enjoy while you can.
>
> Cheers
>
> Pat
>
>
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| Subject: | Re: I'm so disappointed...... |
and post some flying pics ...Pat.... Herb
At 05:41 PM 10/24/2008, you wrote:
>
>Pat:
>Tell me what country is NOT 'descending into chaos'. Mine sure is.
>NOW! -- Kolb-related; how's your Kolb?
>Russ
>PS You mean weather, or whether?
>do not archive
>
>On Oct 24, 2008, at 4:42 PM, pj.ladd wrote:
>
>>
>>Weather your plane weighs 254 pounds or 274 pounds really does not
>>affect anyone... >>
>>
>>I love it. Unfortunately any country, capitalist,socialist, fascist
>>or what have you which allows its members to pick and choose which
>>particular bits of the law they will bother to obey must inevitably
>>descend into chaos.
>>
>>Enjoy while you can.
>>
>>Cheers
>>
>>Pat
>>
>>
>>
>
>
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| Subject: | Re: I'm so disappointed...... |
At 04:42 PM 10/24/2008, you wrote:
>I love it. Unfortunately any country, capitalist,socialist, fascist
>or what have you which allows its members to pick and choose which
>particular bits of the law they will bother to obey must inevitably
>descend into chaos.
>
>Enjoy while you can.
>
>Cheers
>
>Pat
I agree - enjoy while you can. Our country is not as old as yours,
but were getting the same diseases.
Possum
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delete
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can
only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves
money from the public treasure. From that moment on the majority
always votes for the candidates promising the most money from the
public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses
over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship. The average age
of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. These
nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage
to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from
courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to
selfishness, from selfishness to complacency from complacency to
apathy, from apathy to dependency, from dependency back to bondage."
Quote by "Alexander Tyler". No, he wasn't writing about the United States.
This quote is well over one hundred years old.
Tyler was writing about the fall of the Athenian Republic.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but we are soon to be outnumbered.
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| Subject: | Re: wing attachment hardware |
The Kolb plans do not call for washers on the pins. I would not put them on
due to the washers being free to spin and cause significant wear to the cowl
pin. I have seen a washer on a loose bolt spinning at approximately 120 rpm
just being driven by the vibration of the machine. It's the hula hoop
affect just smaller and faster. I also would not use "key chain" rings as
they are not made to any quality standard. I guess I just have a lot of
faith in the design that Homer came up with. If I didn't fold and trailer I
would probably use AN bolts and castle nuts.
Steven Green
MK3 912S
560 hrs with washerless cowl pins.
But not the same ones, they are replaced at least annually.
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| Subject: | Re: I'm so disappointed...... |
At 07:15 PM 10/24/2008, possums wrote:
>"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only
>exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from
>the public treasure...
That's why the United States was NEVER intended to be a democracy, Nowhere
in the U.S. Constitution is the word "democracy" found. The Unites States
is (or was) a constitutional republic, which is a very different
thing. It's slipping into democracy, though, due to a public that doesn't
know the difference, and elected officials that don't care.
-Dana
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Democracy is three wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
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| Subject: | Flying the salt river east of Phoenix |
<<DSC_0482.JPG>> <<DSC_0453.JPG>> <<DSC_0458.JPG>>
<<DSC_0473.JPG>>
Unbelievable flying weather
Uncle craig
912ULS MKIII EX
don't even think of archiving this
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| Subject: | Re: wing attachment hardware |
At 07:16 PM 10/24/2008, Steven Green wrote:
>The Kolb plans do not call for washers on the pins. I would not put them
>on due to the washers being free to spin and cause significant wear to the
>cowl pin. I have seen a washer on a loose bolt spinning at approximately
>120 rpm just being driven by the vibration of the machine. It's the hula
>hoop affect just smaller and faster. I also would not use "key chain"
>rings as they are not made to any quality standard. I guess I just have a
>lot of faith in the design that Homer came up with. If I didn't fold and
>trailer I would probably use AN bolts and castle nuts.
I agree, I use the AN pins with no washers, except at one location: The
UltraStar plans DO call for a ring cotter (the plans call it a "safety
circlip") at one location, the pin that holds connects the elevator horns
to the control arm in the back of the boom tube (done differently on the
later Kolbs, I believe?). I bought a package from the marine store, but I
didn't trust the "tail" that's supposed to make it easy to install, looks
like it'd make it easy to come loose, as well... a friend who flies a GT400
gave me some without the tail; that's what I use now.
-Dana
--
Democracy is three wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
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| Subject: | Re: Flying the salt river east of Phoenix |
At 07:33 PM 10/24/2008, Nelson, Craig wrote:
> <<DSC_0482.JPG>> <<DSC_0453.JPG>> <<DSC_0458.JPG>>
><<DSC_0473.JPG>>
>Unbelievable flying weather
>Uncle craig
>912ULS MKIII EX
>
>don't even think of archiving this
Nice pictures!
It'll get archived though, only the EXACT words "do not archive" do the
trick. So THIS message won't get archived...
-Dana
--
Democracy is three wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
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| Subject: | Flying the Salt river |
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<<DSC_0478.JPG>> <<DSC_0443.JPG>> <<DSC_0444.JPG>>
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| Subject: | How do I learn to fly Ultrastar? Help please. |
I have a nice Ultrastar and no motorized flying experience (years of paragliding).
My Kolb is mid 80's, good condition, Cayuna, no flaperons, etc., no nose
cone, rigid gear.
What 2 place aircraft would be best to learn in, and does anybody know an instructor/aircraft
combo in the Northwest or in the West? (I am in NE Oregon and
willing to travel.)
Any peculiar flying/ground handling aspects to the Ultrastar---good or bad? How
are they at take off and landing?
Any problems to look for? Any upgrades important? Do fairings on struts make
a diffference, or kinds of tires make much of a handling difference?
Also looking for a BSR, etc chute for it. Thanks!! Peter
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