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Dana
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 Posted: Sat Jan 16, 2010 3:09 pm Post subject: floats on Firestar? |
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I have a friend who just bought a set of used Full Lotus floats for his
FSII. He's still waiting for information from the manufacturer, but we'd
appreciate any information from anybody who has put floats on a FS.
The floats are to be mounted at a specified nose down angle relative to the
plane, but what datum on the plane do you use? The 9° angle on the bottom
of the wing used for the weight and balance? The horizon in level flight
cruise? Or something else? Full Lotus, naturally, won't have information
specific to the Kolb.
Any links to pictures of a float installation on a FSII would also be
great. His floats have the amphib gear (wheels swinging down outside the
float). The floats came off a tri-gear plane, but he plans on setting it
up as a taildragger with tailwheels on the water rudders.
-Dana
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h20maule(at)hotmail.com
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| Posted: Sat Jan 16, 2010 5:12 pm Post subject: floats on Firestar? |
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monoflat is the way to go...i have had two fsII in fl floats email me for pix and info
Daniel
h20maule(at)hotmail.com (h20maule(at)hotmail.com)
[quote] Date: Sat C 16 Jan 2010 18:06:42 -0500
To: kolb-list(at)matronics.com
From: d-m-hague(at)comcast.net
Subject: floats on Firestar?
--> Kolb-List message posted by: Dana Hague <d-m-hague(at)comcast.net>
I have a friend who just bought a set of used Full Lotus floats for his
FSII. He's still waiting for information from the manufacturer C but we'd
appreciate any information from anybody who has put floats on a FS.
The floats are to be mounted at a specified nose down angle relative to the
plane C but what datum on the plane do you use? The 9° angle on the bottom
of the wing used for the weight and balance? The horizon in level flight
cruise? Or something else? Full Lotus C naturally C won't have information
specific to the Kolb.
Any links to pictures of a float installation on a FSII would also be
great. His floats have the amphib gear (wheels swinging down outside the
float). The floats came off a tri-gear plane C but he plans on setting it
up as a taildragger with tailwheels on the water rudders.
-Dana
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ces308
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| Posted: Sat Jan 16, 2010 5:18 pm Post subject: Re: floats on Firestar? |
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Dana...have checked out the Full Lotus site? They had a lot of pictures of Kolbs on thier floats... http://www.full-lotus.com/index_main.html
I am hoping to put a set on my Mark 3 Xtra also...Need to sell my Skyhawk first though...
chris ambrose
M3X/Jabiru 90.3 hrs
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Dana
Joined: 13 Dec 2007
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| Posted: Sat Jan 16, 2010 6:11 pm Post subject: floats on Firestar? |
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At 08:12 PM 1/16/2010, daniel myers wrote:
| Quote: | | monoflat is the way to go...i have had two fsII in fl floats email me for pix and info |
I'd like to do the monofloat on my UltraStar, but my friend already has the FL dual floats. For me, floats aren't going to happen, this year at least.
Were both of yours monofloat? At this point we're only looking for dual float info.
At least when we go somewhere together with floats on his plane I won't have to keep telling him to slow down!
-Dana
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