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John Hauck

Joined: 09 Jan 2006
Posts: 4639
Location: Titus, Alabama (hauck's holler)

Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2006 10:04 am Post subject: Aircraft Engineers

This is in response to the gentleman that commented on all the "shade 

tree aircraft engineers" on the Kolb List.



Yep, there are a bunch of us, including the designer of the Kolb 

models, Homer Kolb.



Correct me if I am wrong.  As far as I know, Homer Kolb is an 8th 

grade high school graduate.  That was normal for students to graduate 

in Pennsylvania at the 8th grade.  My Dad did the same thing many 

years prior to Homer's graduation.  I believe Homer is a self taught 

aircraft designer and engineer.  I doubt he has any formal schooling 

or a diploma as an aircraft engineer.



As some one else pointed out, we do have our share of "real" aircraft 

engineers on the Kolb List.  Yes, they will set you straight if you 

attempt to vary too far from the norm.  



Take care,



john h

MKIII

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Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2006 10:19 am Post subject: Aircraft Engineers

Ed Heinemann did a pretty good job without going to a formal engineering

school as well. Just for thoughts.



Todd



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On 4/13/06 2:04 PM, "John Hauck" <jhauck(at)elmore.rr.com> wrote:



 	  Quote: 	
		   

 

 

 This is in response to the gentleman that commented on all the "shade

 tree aircraft engineers" on the Kolb List.

 

 Yep, there are a bunch of us, including the designer of the Kolb

 models, Homer Kolb.

 

 Correct me if I am wrong.  As far as I know, Homer Kolb is an 8th

 grade high school graduate.  That was normal for students to graduate

 in Pennsylvania at the 8th grade.  My Dad did the same thing many

 years prior to Homer's graduation.  I believe Homer is a self taught

 aircraft designer and engineer.  I doubt he has any formal schooling

 or a diploma as an aircraft engineer.

 

 As some one else pointed out, we do have our share of "real" aircraft

 engineers on the Kolb List.  Yes, they will set you straight if you

 attempt to vary too far from the norm.  

 

 Take care,

 

 john h

 MKIII 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

  

  

 

 

 


	


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Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2006 10:21 am Post subject: Aircraft Engineers

John and others,



Homer's designs have been checked out thoroughly by Dennis Souder who is a degreed engineer. Dennis found that Homer actually over-designed the Firestar in some areas.



Ralph

Original Firestar

19 years flying it

-- "John Hauck" <jhauck(at)elmore.rr.com> wrote:




This is in response to the gentleman that commented on all the "shade 

tree aircraft engineers" on the Kolb List.



Yep, there are a bunch of us, including the designer of the Kolb 

models, Homer Kolb.



Correct me if I am wrong.  As far as I know, Homer Kolb is an 8th 

grade high school graduate.  That was normal for students to graduate 

in Pennsylvania at the 8th grade.  My Dad did the same thing many 

years prior to Homer's graduation.  I believe Homer is a self taught 

aircraft designer and engineer.  I doubt he has any formal schooling 

or a diploma as an aircraft engineer.



As some one else pointed out, we do have our share of "real" aircraft 

engineers on the Kolb List.  Yes, they will set you straight if you 

attempt to vary too far from the norm.  



Take care,



john h

MKIII 

 

 

 



 

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jadamson

Joined: 23 Mar 2006
Posts: 13

Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2006 12:07 pm Post subject: Aircraft Engineers

John H ..



Thanks for the reply and, yep, I'm the guilty party who raised the 

question.  Don't believe I went so far as to refer to anyone as a 'shade 

tree engineer' but, if I offended anyone, my apologies.



And you're probably right about Homer's education & background.  That 

wasn't really the question.  The design seems pretty well proven - 

regardless of the designer's formal skills - but it was the mods I was 

more interested in.  Homer probably had a given number of materials 

available for a/c use when the first design went out.  Today, we have 

lots more and of varying quality.  As someone mentioned in another 

thread, a given Tractor Supply steel strap may come from a "good" batch 

. or it may not .. but do you want to bet your ass on it?  Same goes 

for the discussion on 5/16" vs 3/8" 6061.



But you're right.  There are likely a goodly number of engineers on the 

list to remind us of the pros/cons on these things, and that's all I was 

wondering about.



Thx again ..



John A



John Hauck wrote:



 	  Quote: 	
		  



This is in response to the gentleman that commented on all the "shade 

tree aircraft engineers" on the Kolb List.



Yep, there are a bunch of us, including the designer of the Kolb 

models, Homer Kolb.



Correct me if I am wrong.  As far as I know, Homer Kolb is an 8th 

grade high school graduate.  That was normal for students to graduate 

in Pennsylvania at the 8th grade.  My Dad did the same thing many 

years prior to Homer's graduation.  I believe Homer is a self taught 

aircraft designer and engineer.  I doubt he has any formal schooling 

or a diploma as an aircraft engineer.



As some one else pointed out, we do have our share of "real" aircraft 

engineers on the Kolb List.  Yes, they will set you straight if you 

attempt to vary too far from the norm.  



Take care,



john h

MKIII

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jadamson

Joined: 23 Mar 2006
Posts: 13

Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2006 12:12 pm Post subject: Aircraft Engineers

Thanks, Ralph.



Knowing a design has been checked out is always nice to know but, as 

mentioned in another post, it was the *mods* to that design I was 

curious about.



Thx again ..

John A



Ralph wrote:



 	  Quote: 	
		  



John and others,



Homer's designs have been checked out thoroughly by Dennis Souder who is a degreed engineer. Dennis found that Homer actually over-designed the Firestar in some areas.



Ralph

Original Firestar

19 years flying it

-- "John Hauck" <jhauck(at)elmore.rr.com> wrote:




This is in response to the gentleman that commented on all the "shade 

tree aircraft engineers" on the Kolb List.



Yep, there are a bunch of us, including the designer of the Kolb 

models, Homer Kolb.



Correct me if I am wrong.  As far as I know, Homer Kolb is an 8th 

grade high school graduate.  That was normal for students to graduate 

in Pennsylvania at the 8th grade.  My Dad did the same thing many 

years prior to Homer's graduation.  I believe Homer is a self taught 

aircraft designer and engineer.  I doubt he has any formal schooling 

or a diploma as an aircraft engineer.



As some one else pointed out, we do have our share of "real" aircraft 

engineers on the Kolb List.  Yes, they will set you straight if you 

attempt to vary too far from the norm.  



Take care,



john h

MKIII 

 

 

 



 

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