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I'm deeply saddened to learn of Homer Kolb's passing! His contributions to affordable aviation will live on as long as we have freedom of flight.

I sure wish he would have been able to join us a ...

Gary, I enjoyed meeting you at MV and thoroughly enjoyed the ride in your beautiful Jabiru powered MK-III. Thanks much for the invite! Hope to see you there again sometime. I hope the rest of your ...

Here are some photos from my trip. It was good to see many familiar faces again, especially Tom and Betty Kuffel, and to meet some new ones. Always a good time.

http://picasaweb.google.com/Hefner ...

Thanks John, I'll try make it if I can get away from my taxi duties for a few days... still no progress on the driving front... Sad

John, I'm glad to see you are planning another AK trip this summer!! Good for you!

About that age thing.... you've got lots of years of flying ahead of you if you stay active and your health hol ...

Welcome Darryl,
The 150 is a fun plane but you will need to consider it's gross weight limit and CG, depending on how much camping gear you plan to haul for the air-camping trips. They are not a ver ...

Hi gang,

I happened to visit the Kolb list this morning to see what's happening and saw this discussion, which brought back memories of how much I liked the continuously adjustable elevator trim ta ...

I received the tragic news by email here in China and am in total shock and disbelief!! John was a very special man and will be sorely missed by all of us who had the opportunity to have met and know ...

I heard you all are having a photo contest so I thought I would toss a couple more photos into the ring.... I probably have better ones in the archives but didn't have time to search.

Sorry I'll ...

It must be that Warp drive prop that lets John fly straight and level with 40 deg flaps at 3000 rpm.... Laughing

John definitely don't need any VG's.... he has a magical setup now.

Thinking of t ...

I stand corrected about the reason the tail dropped being due to stall. I knew that and misspoke. Actually, I don't know what technically was going on but I know by adding VG's under the hor stab, ...

Just what happens when the tail stalls?

Larry C

Larry, my experience (and I know Jack Hart experienced this) is based on VG's on the main wing of a Firefly. The tail would tend to sink faster ...

Mike, did you put any VG's on the underside of the horizontal stabilizers? You might want to consider that if not. It might not be a big deal on the Mk III X but it will help keep the tail from stal ...

Dennis, I'm very sorry to hear this, but am happy you and Michael walked away unhurt. Tough luck!! Good luck with the repairs.

Hi Pat,

This year's MV gathering was the 5th. I took my Firefly there in May 2002 and later shared some photos with John Hauck when I learned he had never flown in Arizona or Utah yet. He shared ...

Nice article Wayne!! Glad to have you aboard the Kolb group. We've got lots of folks that are passionate about flying and building in this group so you fit right in here. How long do you figure bef ...

Terry, thanks for the kind words. It takes some time to clean up the photos but it's well worth it and I'm happy to share them with the folks that can't make it out here. The resolution on the websi ...

Ellery, Bill,
I'm pleased that you enjoyed the photos. I wish all of you could experience this (flying around the monuments) one time... it's an incredible experience! We that are able to attend ar ...

Steven, I'm real glad to see you had a good uneventful flight home! It was real nice meeting you at MV. Hope to see you out this way again sometime.

I forgot to mention that my spam-can C150 and I got a memorable Kolber send-off that had me laughing so hard I had to really concentrate after lift-off.... without getting into too much detail, I'll p ...