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1. 04:49 AM - Re: Flight report (zeprep251@aol.com)
2. 05:50 AM - Re: Tailboom Dolly (Thom Riddle)
3. 05:50 AM - Tail boom dollies (zeprep251@aol.com)
4. 05:50 AM - Re: Flight report (George Alexander)
5. 05:55 AM - Re: Tailboom Dolly (Thom Riddle)
6. 06:05 AM - Re: Re: Flight report (John Hauck)
7. 07:29 AM - Re: Re: Flight report (Beauford T)
8. 07:56 AM - Re: Tailboom Dolly (Kirby, Dennis Civ USAF AFMC AFNWC/EN)
9. 08:40 AM - Re: Re: Tailboom Dolly (George T. Alexander, Jr.)
10. 09:34 AM - Re: what upstate NY looks like (Thom Riddle)
11. 09:53 AM - Re: Re: what upstate NY looks like (John Hauck)
12. 10:08 AM - Re: what upstate NY looks like (Thom Riddle)
13. 10:16 AM - Re: Re: Flight report (zeprep251@aol.com)
14. 10:34 AM - Re: Re: what upstate NY looks like (Dana Hague)
15. 10:45 AM - Re: what upstate NY looks like (Thom Riddle)
16. 10:59 AM - Re: what upstate NY looks like (lucien)
17. 11:03 AM - Re: Flight report (lucien)
18. 11:21 AM - Re: Flight report (lucien)
19. 01:02 PM - Re: black dust from starter? (b young)
20. 03:14 PM - Re: black dust from starter? (Tom Jones)
21. 03:22 PM - Re: Re: Flight report (zeprep251@aol.com)
22. 03:22 PM - Re: Re: Flight report (Dana Hague)
23. 05:37 PM - Re: black dust from starter? (Kirkds)
24. 07:50 PM - Re: Re: Flight report (John Hauck)
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Subject: | Re: Flight report |
Roger,
It's beautiful and fun,but some in the aviation community might call these
pictures ("evidence").Got to be careful what you post.
G Aman
PS For the first time in my flying career,I patched a bullet hole in my
aircraft wing,one in the bottom ,one in the top
-----Original Message-----
From: R. Hankins <rphanks@grantspass.com>
Sent: Sun, Feb 7, 2010 10:14 pm
Subject: Kolb-List: Flight report
It has not been a good winter for flying in my neck of the woods, but I sn
uck in
a nice flight this morning in between storms. It was one of those post ra
in,
dead calm, puffy cloud mornings. I played around for an hour or so, in an
d
around the cotton candy. Here is a link to a short video I shot while fly
ing
around one of the cloud columns. I'll attach a picture as well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWlwU8PqJjQ
Every once in a while a flight makes me smile like a kid who just got his
first
kiss. This was one of those.
Still smiling.
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Roger in Oregon
1992 KXP 503 - N1782C
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Subject: | Re: Tailboom Dolly |
When I was flying an early firestar and folding the wings for each flight, I built
a wooden dolly that also supported the wings up high over the tail wires so
I wouldn't have to fold the tail for each flight. It saved enough time to make
it worthwhile. Photo attached.
The photo doesn't show this but I held the wings in place with a hose that fitted
over the aileron balance tubes on one end and bungeed the other end together
with a wrap of foam rubber around the boom where the wings made contact.
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Thom Riddle
Buffalo, NY
Kolb Slingshot SS-021
Jabiru 2200A #1574
Tennessee Prop 64x31
About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
- Herbert Hoover
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Subject: | Tail boom dollies |
Easy to make and supports wings when traveling
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Subject: | Re: Flight report |
zeprep251(at)aol.com wrote:
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>
> * * * * SNIP * * * *
> G Aman
>
> PS For the first time in my flying career,I patched a bullet hole in my aircraft
wing,one in the bottom ,one in the top
>
> --
Gary:
Do you have any idea when/where your Kolb was a target?
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FS II R503 N709FS
http://gtalexander.home.att.net
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Subject: | Re: Tailboom Dolly |
When I was flying an early firestar and folding the wings for each flight, I built
a wooden dolly that also supported the wings up high over the tail wires so
I wouldn't have to fold the tail for each flight. It saved enough time to make
it worthwhile. Photo attached.
The photo doesn't show this but I held the wings in place with a hose that fitted
over the aileron balance tubes on one end and bungeed the other end together
with a wrap of foam rubber around the boom where the wings made contact.
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Thom Riddle
Buffalo, NY
Kolb Slingshot SS-021
Jabiru 2200A #1574
Tennessee Prop 64x31
About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
- Herbert Hoover
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Subject: | Re: Flight report |
> Do you have any idea when/where your Kolb was a target?
>
> --------
> George Alexander
Morning Gang:
Did you report this to local and Federal authorities?
Any investigation started?
Folks go to jail for shooting airplanes.
I have had several holes in my wings, ailerons, flaps, and fuselage fabric
over the past 26 years, but they were from FOD (foreign object damage).
That is bad news.
There are nuts cases out there that will shoot at civilian and military
aircraft.
john hauck
mkIII
Titus, Alabama
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Subject: | Re: Flight report |
John:
RE: Bulletholes --
I can recall being based at the Dublin, Ga. airport during the winter months in
the mid 60's,
when the Feds arrived with two well-used Super Cubs to engage in a little
moonshine still hunting for two weeks. They would launch at first light and
cruise slowly around a target county at 500 feet or so, looking for the smoke
going straight up from the whiskey mash cooking fires out in the woods. When the
breeze came up around 1000 hours, it scattered the smoke and made it hard to find,
so the "revenuers" would recover to the airport and wait until late afternoon to
go again.
Both of their airplanes had numerous bullethole patches on them... one of them
must have had around a dozen. The pilots laughed about it... but were dead
serious when they warned us about the dangers of playing around low and slow over
the piney woods in little airplanes...(most of that part of south central Georgia
was piney woods). It seems that an airplane was an airplane to the good 'ol boys
cooking the mash, and they were obviously equal opportunity shooters...
Occasionally think about that when cruising around over the local woods at 55 mph
in the Kleenex Kolb, but no holes as yet... I reckon the local Florida boys are
too busy running smokeless crystal meth labs indoors in trailers to waste time
fooling around out in the woods with smelly old stills... Times have changed...
Worth what ye paid fer it... Do not archive.
beauford
FF-076
Brandon, FL
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Did you report this to local and Federal authorities?
Any investigation started?
Folks go to jail for shooting airplanes.
I have had several holes in my wings, ailerons, flaps, and fuselage fabric
over the past 26 years, but they were from FOD (foreign object damage).
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Subject: | Re: Tailboom Dolly |
Pete -
For tailboom support ideas, check out George Alexander's excellent Kolb
website. He's done a good job of collecting pictures of the various
ideas from our Kolb List members. (sorry - I do not have the URL handy
right now ...)
Dennis Kirby
New Mexico
do not archive
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Subject: | Re: Tailboom Dolly |
Dennis et al:
New URL...... http://www.oh2fly.net
George
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From: owner-kolb-list-server@matronics.com
[mailto:owner-kolb-list-server@matronics.com] On Behalf Of Kirby, Dennis Civ
USAF AFMC AFNWC/EN
Sent: Monday, February 08, 2010 10:55 AM
Subject: Kolb-List: Re: Tailboom Dolly
Pete -
For tailboom support ideas, check out George Alexander's excellent Kolb
website. He's done a good job of collecting pictures of the various ideas
from our Kolb List members. (sorry - I do not have the URL handy right now
.)
Dennis Kirby
New Mexico
do not archive
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Subject: | Re: what upstate NY looks like |
What upstate NY looked like from my first early FS in Sept. 2003. Very white below
but not snow.
do not archive
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Thom Riddle
Buffalo, NY
Kolb Slingshot SS-021
Jabiru 2200A #1574
Tennessee Prop 64x31
Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your
rest home.
- Phyllis Diller
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Subject: | Re: what upstate NY looks like |
> What upstate NY looked like from my first early FS in Sept. 2003. Very
white below but not snow.
> --------
> Thom Riddle
Thom/Gang:
Ever get caught on top doing that?
john hauck
mkIII
Titus, Alabama
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Subject: | Re: what upstate NY looks like |
At the time, I had a current medical so I was flying legally as a private pilot....
but illegally in an unregistered overweight Firestar.... which was pretty
common at the time, but still illegal.
So far, my only encounter with the FAA as an active pilot has been a single ramp
check after a night IFR flight in a Piper Cherokee landing at Hays, KS. The
FAA met me (and the instructor) at the airplane as I was unloading and asked for
papers. All in order with no consequences. He was very polite and friendly.
I try to stay legal these days so no "on top" flying anymore.
do not archive
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Thom Riddle
Buffalo, NY
Kolb Slingshot SS-021
Jabiru 2200A #1574
Tennessee Prop 64x31
Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your
rest home.
- Phyllis Diller
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Subject: | Re: Flight report |
George,
I know where I'd been but not sure when the holes arrived.They're just beh
ind the thickest part of the airfoil and small,about 1/4"dia.,smooth on th
e bottom and a little more ragged on the top.I was cleaning the top of the
wing while folded when I first noticed it.Thought it was a bird strike un
til I found the matching hole in the bottom.Have 10 hrs on it since I got
here in Dec.Didn't keep the log up to date.That would have been helpful.
G.Aman
-----Original Message-----
From: George Alexander <gtalexander@att.net>
Sent: Mon, Feb 8, 2010 8:50 am
Subject: Kolb-List: Re: Flight report
zeprep251(at)aol.com wrote:
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>
> * * * * SNIP * * * *
> G Aman
>
> PS For the first time in my flying career,I patched a bullet hole in
my
aircraft wing,one in the bottom ,one in the top
>
> --
Gary:
Do you have any idea when/where your Kolb was a target?
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George Alexander
FS II R503 N709FS
http://gtalexander.home.att.net
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Subject: | Re: what upstate NY looks like |
At 12:48 PM 2/8/2010, John Hauck wrote:
>Ever get caught on top doing that?
I did once, in the T-Craft. I knew the ceiling was at least 1000'
underneath so I did a spin to get down through.
-Dana
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Subject: | Re: what upstate NY looks like |
Oh..., is that what you meant by getting "caught on top"?
In that case, no. However, the day after my FAA ramp check, I flew up through a
small hole and flew on top of solid overcast for about 100 miles to land somewhere
in Colorado where it was CAVU, which I knew before departure and had 50
gallons of fuel on board.
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Thom Riddle
Buffalo, NY
Kolb Slingshot SS-021
Jabiru 2200A #1574
Tennessee Prop 64x31
Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your
rest home.
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Subject: | Re: what upstate NY looks like |
John Hauck wrote:
>
> Thom/Gang:
>
> Ever get caught on top doing that?
>
> john hauck
> mkIII
> Titus, Alabama
Came close once in my ultralight back in TX. I got down through a hole by doing
a tight spiral descent.
After that the only time I've gone "VFR on top" is if I can keep a large open patch
nearby and there's a decent temp/dewpoint spread.
Overcasts like this are extremely rare where I fly now so don't run into it that
much....
LS
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LS
Titan II SS
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Subject: | Re: Flight report |
R. Hankins wrote:
> It has not been a good winter for flying in my neck of the woods, but I snuck
in a nice flight this morning in between storms. It was one of those post rain,
dead calm, puffy cloud mornings. I played around for an hour or so, in and
around the cotton candy. Here is a link to a short video I shot while flying
around one of the cloud columns. I'll attach a picture as well.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWlwU8PqJjQ
>
> Every once in a while a flight makes me smile like a kid who just got his first
kiss. This was one of those.
>
> Still smiling.
You know you're breakin' all kinds of rules, dontcha..... No I won't tell and yes
I totally live for views like this too when I go fly (in the rare event we
have cumulus clouds around here)... Awsome.....
LS
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Titan II SS
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Subject: | Re: Flight report |
One of the reasons I'm an altitude man and don't like low-and-slow..... I worried
the most about getting shot at back when I flew my powered parachute. We flew
out in the boonies of TX most of the time and there was no shortage of buck-tooth
idiots around out there who'd not think twice about shooting at anything
that flew over them.
Even here I try to fly quietly and as high up as I can reasonably go without wasting
too much gas, etc.......
LS
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LS
Titan II SS
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Subject: | black dust from starter? |
Anyone ever experience a black dust blowing out of their starter? Is there
any maintenance needed on a starter...such as taking it apart and cleaning
it? I will give Ronnie a call this week and ask him, but wondered if anyone
else has seen this?
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Cristal Waters
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>.
Crystal
No I haven't seen it. Guess it depends if the black is coming from inside or
outside the starter. It may be an indication that the lubricant in the
starter has dried up. And you are starting to rub metal to metal. I
would think that removal and lubricating would be in order. Or the mounting
hardware is chafing.
Boyd Young
Kolb MKIII
Utah.
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Subject: | Re: black dust from starter? |
> Anyone ever experience a black dust blowing out of their starter? Is there any
maintenance needed on a starter...such as taking it apart and cleaning it? I
will give Ronnie a call this week and ask him, but wondered if anyone else has
seen this?
Ask Ronnie if it could be coming from a loose fan belt wearing out.
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Tom Jones
Classic IV
503 Rotax, 72 inch Two blade Warp
Ellensburg, WA
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Subject: | Re: Flight report |
Lucien,
The only time I was under 1000' was take off & landing.Back home is a diff
erent story.The direct drive Jabiru is loud.Another reason to fly a Rotax
engine,so quiet nobody will know you are out and about .
G.Aman
-----Original Message-----
From: lucien <lstavenhagen@hotmail.com>
Sent: Mon, Feb 8, 2010 2:18 pm
Subject: Kolb-List: Re: Flight report
One of the reasons I'm an altitude man and don't like low-and-slow..... I
worried the most about getting shot at back when I flew my powered parachu
te. We
flew out in the boonies of TX most of the time and there was no shortage
of
buck-tooth idiots around out there who'd not think twice about shooting at
anything that flew over them.
Even here I try to fly quietly and as high up as I can reasonably go witho
ut
wasting too much gas, etc.......
LS
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Subject: | Re: Flight report |
At 02:18 PM 2/8/2010, lucien wrote:
>
>One of the reasons I'm an altitude man and don't like low-and-slow..... I
>worried the most about getting shot at back when I flew my powered
>parachute. We flew out in the boonies of TX most of the time and there was
>no shortage of buck-tooth idiots around out there who'd not think twice
>about shooting at anything that flew over them.
Hah! I've heard lots of PPC pilots find bullet holes in their wings... I
guess they're so slow they're an irresistible target.
Out in Kansas there was a clown who was shooting at PPC's during the big
annual Powrachute fly-in. Somehow he was caught, and found guilty. The
judge sentenced him to probation... and jail for the week of the fly-in,
every year for the next 12 years.
No word on whether the fly-in pilots deliberately fly past the jail and
wave... :)
-Dana
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Subject: | Re: black dust from starter? |
You may need to replace the brushes in your starter as they wear down over time
from rubbing on the commutator leaving a fine black dust.
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Subject: | Re: Flight report |
> Even here I try to fly quietly and as high up as I can reasonably go
without wasting too much gas, etc.......
>
> LS
How do you accomplish that?
John Williamson and I have low leveled from Sherman, TX, to Monument Valley,
UT, continued low level from there to the Rock House, 7 miles south of Burns
Junction, OR. If we were shot at during that flight, we never knew it.
Last time either John W or I were shot at, that we know of, is Vietnam 1970
for me, and I can't remember when John W came home the last time, 1972,
kinda rings a bell. Of course, we were both in a wonderful position to
defend ourselves in VN.
Be careful how you talk about country folks. There are a bunch of us on the
Kolb List and we all fly Kolbs. ;-)
john hauck
mkIII
hauck's holler
Titus, Alabama
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