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undoctor(at)rcn.com
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Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 3:17 pm Post subject: Firestar bowling enthusiasts' next activity

Hi to all the crazies who get a kick out of  watching things smoosh from a great height,

  

 I've been reading a lot of the posts about Firestar  Bowling, watermelons, etc., and I haven't seen any reference to a fun contest  that's kind of similar.  Have any of you unrolled a roll of toilet paper  from a pre-determined AGL and then chased it down, seeing who can cut  through it the most times?

  

 Dave Kulp

  

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a58r(at)verizon.net
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Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 4:45 pm Post subject: Firestar bowling enthusiasts' next activity

And don't forget the Arkansas chicken/turkey? drop.

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Bob N.    FireFly 070 Old Kolb

http://www.angelfire.com/rpg/ronoy/



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beauford(at)tampabay.rr.c
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Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 5:31 pm Post subject: Firestar bowling enthusiasts' next activity

Done that, Sir....    Science  experiment....  One of Ma's White Leghorns out of a 7AC Champ (at) 6K feet  over 12 Mile Island in the Ohio,  just northeast of Louisville....was  1957.... Results were inconclusive.... Despite immediate split-S and  "pull",  never visually reacquired the test partner following her hotly  contested departure from the aircraft....No vapor trail, no burning feathers, no  nothing...  Can only assume she was capable of substantially more than the  129 IAS limit on the Champ....

  

 ...they do this in Arkansas...?

  

 Beauford

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d-m-hague(at)comcast.net
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Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 5:39 pm Post subject: Firestar bowling enthusiasts' next activity

At 07:17 PM 3/23/2007, David  Kulp wrote:

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		  Hi to all the crazies who get a kick out of watching things smoosh from a great height,

  

 I've been reading a lot of the posts about Firestar Bowling, watermelons, etc., and I haven't seen any reference to a fun contest that's kind of similar.  Have any of you unrolled a roll of toilet paper from a pre-determined AGL and then chased it down, seeing who can cut through it the most times? 	


 Used to do it all the time in my T-Craft.  Always wanted to get one of those industrial TP rolls that are about 2' diameter.  In the PPG's we drop balloons and try to catch them again (not as easy as it looks).



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Richard Pike

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Location: Blountville, Tennessee

Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 6:43 pm Post subject: Firestar bowling enthusiasts' next activity

Back in 1966 I was a line boy at MAC in Opa-Locka when they were the 2nd  busiest airport in the world (flight schools) and another idiot lineboy took a  C150 out to the practice area and threw out a roll of TP, slicing it up on the  way down. One problem - the fluttering paper sort of leveled out, and he hit it  end on, and stuffed about 50' of it into the cowl, where it collected atop the  cylinders. The engine got hot, and he barely made it back in. He wanted me  to help him fish out all the shards of paper, but I told him to do it himself.  He was scared to death he had cooked the engine and would have to pay for it, so  he blistered his arms up pretty good fishing out all that mess.

  

 A Kolb would not have that problem. Being flown by an idiot, that  is...

  

 Richard Pike

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John Hauck

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Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 7:05 pm Post subject: Firestar bowling enthusiasts' next activity

One problem - the 

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		   fluttering paper sort of leveled out, and he hit it end on,  

 Richard Pike

 
	




Richard:



The best toilet paper for cutting is Scott Commercial.  The primary 

reason is the tube is glued to the end of the roll.  It acts as a 

weight to get the roll unrolled, and it keeps the paper vertical.  Cut 

cases of it back in the good old days of the mid 80's with the 

Firestar.



We also had baloon popping contest with helium baloons at the Flight 

Farm, Monterey, NY, when I attended 1988 and 89.  Very difficult to 

pop a baloon with a Kolb because of the pusher prop.  Had to aim for 

the baloon to skim the side of the fuselage to get sucked into the 

prop.



Paper was a decending drill and baloons was a climbing drill.



Both were fun and good training for flying and feeling the Kolb, 

especially staying well ahead of the aircraft.



john h

mkIII



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Steve Boetto

Joined: 11 Jan 2006
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Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 2:46 am Post subject: Firestar bowling enthusiasts' next activity

I seem to remember someone a few years ago admitting that they dropped  a roll on takeoff, only to have it bounce into the prop.  Let the  games begin

  

  

  

 steve b

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possums(at)bellsouth.net
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Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 12:06 pm Post subject: Firestar bowling enthusiasts' next activity

At 09:30 PM 3/23/2007, you wrote:

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		  Done that, Sir....    Science experiment....  One of Ma's White Leghorns out of a 7AC Champ (at) 6K feet over 12 Mile Island in the Ohio,  just northeast of Louisville....was 1957.... Results were inconclusive.... Despite immediate split-S and "pull",  never visually reacquired the test partner following her hotly contested departure from the aircraft....No vapor trail, no burning feathers, no nothing...  Can only assume she was capable of substantially more than the 129 IAS limit on the Champ....

  

 ...they do this in Arkansas...?

  

 Beauford

 	


 We've got cat chasing down here - 

 for those of you who don't know, is the sport of cramming about eight skydivers and 

 one cat into an airplane. When you get to 10,000 feet you toss the cat out. 

 The skydivers then pile out and go after the cat. Whoever lands with the cat is the winner.

 Got the audio of the local finals I might could put on Goggle.



 Then again I've seen worse

  http://www.adultsheepfinder.com/

 but I guess you gotta be from New Zealand to sign up.



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a58r(at)verizon.net
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Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 12:40 pm Post subject: Firestar bowling enthusiasts' next activity

B'ferd et al, Here's from the Yellville AR Chamber of Commerce web site re: Turkey dropping...

The one thing about Turkey Trot that gets the most attention is the Turkey Drop. Turkeys are usually dropped from a low flying plane all throughout the festival. This has prompted attention worldwide. Yellville and the Turkey Trot Festival was featured in The National Enquirer, as an example of animal cruelty. The famous 1970's TV citcom, WKRP, even created a parody of the Turkey Trot Festival.

regards,Bob N.    FireFly 070 Old Kolb

http://www.angelfire.com/rpg/ronoy/



 

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pj.ladd(at)btinternet.com
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Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 10:38 am Post subject: Firestar bowling enthusiasts' next activity

unrolled a roll of toilet paper from a  pre-determined AGL>>

  

 The Tiger Club used to do this regularly at the  Farnborough Air Show back in the 50`s.  In those days they had a section  which flew Turbulents which was as a very basic low wing monoplane with an open  cockpit and a VW car engine conversion.

 I don`t think there are many, if any, left in the  country now. Certainly they would not hold a candle in performance compared to  the modern ultralight.

  

 I have chased a model glider which we launched at  the top of the wire from a 2 seat glider. Of course our sink rate was greater  than the models but if you threw in a quick diving 360 as soon as you dropped  the wire  you can could pull up under the model, making machine gun noises  before you stalled and fell off on one wing .

  

 cheers

  

 Pat

  

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Ed in JXN

Joined: 24 Mar 2006
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Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 2:49 pm Post subject: Firestar bowling enthusiasts' next activity

Beauford/Bob/All,

  

         How about the  cat in Howell, MI?  Fell from the owner's Tri-Pacer on takeoff (over 100  feet up), the owner made a quick landing and found the cat on the ground, eager  to go again.  The owner took off again with a piece of stovepipe pointed  out the door, once established on his 'bombing run' would let Tabby go out the  chute.

   Was written up in 'Flying' mag some years  back.  They wouldn't repeat an urban legend, would they?

  

 Ed in JXN

  

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Ed in JXN

Joined: 24 Mar 2006
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Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 2:49 pm Post subject: Firestar bowling enthusiasts' next activity

For those who remember:

  

 Jennifer or Bailey?

  

  

 Ed in JXN

  

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Michael Sharp

Joined: 10 Jan 2006
Posts: 118
Location: Oak Grove, MO (Kansas City)

Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 3:09 pm Post subject: Firestar bowling enthusiasts' next activity

Bailey!  Definitely … Girl next door!!!! LOL  

   

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rowedenny(at)windstream.n
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Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 3:45 pm Post subject: Firestar bowling enthusiasts' next activity

Jen all the way!!

  

 I loved Lonnie Anderson 

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JetPilot

Joined: 10 Jan 2006
Posts: 1246

Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 4:39 pm Post subject: Re: Firestar bowling enthusiasts' next activity

I did the throwing out the toilet paper thing in my Aerobatic Cessna 150, it was great fun.   I could loop around it, get all sorts of deformations in the string by pulling high G's around it.  I liked the rolls where the core was not glued on the best, they floated a lot longer.  If the roll stayed attached, it would fall before I was done with it.  



This is a great idea I have not thought of in a long time, its time to do it now with the MK III  ( non aerobatic ) but it will still be loads of fun.   



Mike

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