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     1. 12:39 AM - Re: Early Days  (west1m)
     2. 07:33 AM - Re: Re: Early Days  (william sullivan)
     3. 12:20 PM - Re: Early Days  (west1m)
 
 
 
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Time: 12:39:57 AM PST US
Subject: Kolb-List: Re: Early Days
From: "west1m" <west1m@hotmail.com>


While not the pilot you guys are I have been doing this off and on for quite a
while. My flying started at around 6:30 AM in a bar after graveyard shift back
in the mid 80s. My friend and i were sitting there thumbing through the throw
away equivalent of craigslist. He found a hangglider and I found a Weedhopper.
The following weekend we went out to the Calif. desert and tried them out.
We never did get the hanglider to fly but after a six pack or so I was having a
great time flying the Weedhopper. single cylinder and no ailerons of any kind
and the desert was always windy. made turs fun sometimes!

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West1m
Hastings, MN


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________________________________  Message 2  _____________________________________


Time: 07:33:22 AM PST US
From: william sullivan <williamtsullivan@att.net>
Subject: Re: Kolb-List: Re: Early Days

 I love these old stories! More!

 Bill Sullivan
do not archive


     On Sunday, April 26, 2020, 10:55:35 PM EDT, Richard Pike <thegreybaron
@charter.net> wrote:  


My next fiasco: Back around 1981, Dupont sponsored some sort of contest pro
moting ultralight aircraft. Don't remember the specifics.=C2- But I just 
happened to have a couple of 8 hp engines that had been marketed for attach
ing to the crossbar of a hang glider to convert it into a ground launch han
g glider. So I got busy.
Here is the result: it wouldn't get out of ground effect either.

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Richard Pike
Kolb MKIII N420P (420ldPoops)
Kolb Firefly Part 103 legal 
Kingsport, TN 3TN0

Forgiving is tough, being forgiven is wonderful, and God's grace really is 
amazing.


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=C2- =C2- =C2- =C2- =C2- -Matt Dralle, List Admin.


________________________________  Message 3  _____________________________________


Time: 12:20:50 PM PST US
Subject: Kolb-List: Re: Early Days
From: "west1m" <west1m@hotmail.com>


Of course you have to introduce you kid to flyin'
note the two coils duct taped to the main tube. No mag. just a 6V lantern battery
under the seat and an alligator clipped wire hanging on the batt for power.

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West1m
Hastings, MN


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