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firebug

Joined: 22 Jan 2006
Posts: 36
Location: Montgomery Alabama

Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 4:33 pm Post subject: Re: Different occupations of Kolbers?

I did good to ask this question. [as he pats himself on the back] This has been nice to found out what makes these kolbs fly[MONEY] and how we make it.

planecrazzzy
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Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 5:59 pm Post subject: Re: Different occupations of Kolbers?

Your close......

 It takes TWO things to fly.....



 Airspeed and Money....



                                     Gotta Fly...

                                                     Mike in MN FSII / N381PM

                            



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rswiderski(at)earthlink.n
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Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 7:34 pm Post subject: Different occupations of Kolbers?

I sent this earlier & it never posted, here's a 2nd try.

	After high school, I repaired the county schools' audio/visual

equipment & managed a gas station/garage.  During college I welded up

nuclear trigger devices for Martin Merietta. Got my BS degree in Chemistry.

Built houses for a year then went back & got a Masters & Specialist in

counseling. I did counseling for 2 years, then went into ministry for the

next 17 years, mostly working with youth, but also coordinating the adult

education & family retreats. Then I spent 2 years teaching kids with

learning & emotional problems.  For the last 6 years I have been teaching

math to incarcerated teenage boys.

	My wife of 30 years is a gift that has greatly exceeded what I

dreamt for as a young buck, and as each year goes by, I am continued to be

surprised by the treasure she is.  We have 2 children, a daughter who is a

teacher  a precious

granddaughter & another grandchild on the way.

	God has blessed my life richly, he has even seen fit to grant my

life long dream -- I have a home in the quiet country on ten acres with a

shop and access to a 4000ft grass strip.  



Richard Swiderski

Ocala FL

SlingShot, TurboSuzuki

Roger Lee

Joined: 10 Jan 2006
Posts: 1464
Location: Tucson, Az.

Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 7:51 pm Post subject: Re: Different occupations of Kolbers?

Hi All,



I have been a firefighter for over 26 years. I' ve been a paramedic for 24 years and a Captain for 16 years. I also have owned a company called "The Airline by J. Sink" and we manufacture "surface supplied air" compressors for diving. If you don't know what it is there is a video on the web site.



Web site:  www.airlinebyjsink.com



Have A SAFE FLIGHT.



I hope to see everyone in MV Valley again this year.

_________________
Roger Lee
Tucson, Az.
Rotax Instructor & Rotax IRC
Light Sport Repairman
Home 520-574-1080 TRY HOME FIRST
Cell 520-349-7056

flyingfox(at)copper.net
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Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 5:23 am Post subject: Different occupations of Kolbers?

Yeah they do fly on money but let me tell you, the 'cheap to fly' 172 that I

first bought cost me $10,000 at first annual and there was nothing visible

changed to the airplane. It suddenly dawned on me that all that flying I do

in Army helicopters and civilian King Air's is backed up by someone in a

hangar spending a lot of someone else's money.



I believe it was at that point in February of 2000 that I made the

subconscious decision to at least reduce the sting by getting something that

I could fix myself. My first foray into the avionics shop to get my ADF

looked at  cost me $3000, for an ADF!?!



They not only repaired something I asked for an estimate on by they charged

a shop rate of over $70 an hour. Oh they did pull their Dymo labeler out and

made pretty labels for my circuit breakers and avionics master switch but,

was it worth $3000? Not for me. I know nothing of avionics, but I know

people who do and once My little Kolb is in the shop, the shop rate goes to

me...



I cannot wait.



Todd

On 1/29/06 7:33 PM, "firebug" <gcc1964(at)mon-cre.net> wrote:



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 I did good to ask this question. [as he pats himself on the back] This has

 been nice to found out what makes these kolbs fly[MONEY] and how we make it.

 



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Flying Fox Services



Visit my Blog at www.flyingfoxhangar.blogspot.com



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rp3420(at)freescale.com
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Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 7:43 am Post subject: Different occupations of Kolbers?

I graduated from Arizona State University in 93 with a BS in business

marketing.  Worked for Hancock home builder until summer of 94 and

started work with Motorola semiconductor sector.  Got my foot in the

door as an manufacturing associate running high tech equipment.  Worked

myself into manufacturing management, which I hated mainly due to the

dry drunk I worked under.  Scrambled to do anything else and was picked

up by the device engineering group where I still am working as a device

engineering technician now for Motorola's spin-off of their semi sector-

Freescale semiconductor.  Married 16 years with five children- 3 oldest

girls and my two little boys, ranging from the oldest of 12 to my

youngest of 3 yrs old. 



Have a love for aviation since I was a boy.  Parents would give me

flying lessons for birthday/Christmas as a youth.  Fly RC planes when I

was a youth as well, and still do.  Always wanted to build my own

experimental flying machine.   Been working on my Kolb Firestar II and

uncle Craig's Mark III Xtra for little over six years.  Took a lot of

skeaming, dreaming, scrimping, scraping, wheelin, dealing to get my

Firestar flying machine done.  Just finishing up the paint job on both

and hopefully will start flying here to build some time to go to the

monument valley rally in May. 



Tim Gherkins

Firestar II/503dcdi/Powerfin prop/ BSR 750

www.milows.com  - check out our website.

flyingfox(at)copper.net
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Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 8:53 am Post subject: Different occupations of Kolbers?

Been waiting for a Milows update for a long time. Any changes coming to the

website?

On 1/30/06 10:43 AM, "Gherkins Tim-rp3420" <rp3420(at)freescale.com> wrote:



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 I graduated from Arizona State University in 93 with a BS in business

 marketing.  Worked for Hancock home builder until summer of 94 and

 started work with Motorola semiconductor sector.  Got my foot in the

 door as an manufacturing associate running high tech equipment.  Worked

 myself into manufacturing management, which I hated mainly due to the

 dry drunk I worked under.  Scrambled to do anything else and was picked

 up by the device engineering group where I still am working as a device

 engineering technician now for Motorola's spin-off of their semi sector-

 Freescale semiconductor.  Married 16 years with five children- 3 oldest

 girls and my two little boys, ranging from the oldest of 12 to my

 youngest of 3 yrs old.

 

 Have a love for aviation since I was a boy.  Parents would give me

 flying lessons for birthday/Christmas as a youth.  Fly RC planes when I

 was a youth as well, and still do.  Always wanted to build my own

 experimental flying machine.   Been working on my Kolb Firestar II and

 uncle Craig's Mark III Xtra for little over six years.  Took a lot of


	


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Flying Fox Services



Visit my Blog at www.flyingfoxhangar.blogspot.com



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rp3420(at)freescale.com
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Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 10:18 am Post subject: Different occupations of Kolbers?

Jimmy, Todd and Kolbers,



The website will be getting updated here soon.  Uncle Milow(Craig) keeps

harrassing me to take some pictures of the Firestar and post them.  We

have been concentrating  all our efforts to getting both of these planes

up and flying.  We are half tempted to spend a 4 day weekend at El

Mirage dry lake bed just an hour north of Los Angelos to test the planes

out and gain some flying experience.  Uncle Craig travels a lot now and

I see him maybe every two weeks, but we are both close to flying.  We

really want to see what the home-made cowl will do with the Mrk III

Extra engine and plane performance.

I try to read this list on a daily basis, so we are still here and

lurking, looking forward to MV.



Tim Gherkins

Phx, AZ



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flyingfox(at)copper.net
Guest

Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 11:33 am Post subject: Different occupations of Kolbers?

I cannot wait to see how the enclosure works on the Mark III for the engine.

It looks very sleek indeed.



Todd

On 1/30/06 1:16 PM, "Gherkins Tim-rp3420" <rp3420(at)freescale.com> wrote:



[quote] 

 

 

 Jimmy, Todd and Kolbers,

 

 The website will be getting updated here soon.  Uncle Milow(Craig) keeps

 harrassing me to take some pictures of the Firestar and post them.  We

 have been concentrating  all our efforts to getting both of these planes

 up and flying.  We are half tempted to spend a 4 day weekend at El

 Mirage dry lake bed just an hour north of Los Angelos to test the planes

 out and gain some flying experience.  Uncle Craig travels a lot now and

 I see him maybe every two weeks, but we are both close to flying.  We

 really want to see what the home-made cowl will do with the Mrk III

 Extra engine and plane performance.

 I try to read this list on a daily basis, so we are still here and

 lurking, looking forward to MV.

 

 Tim Gherkins

 Phx, AZ

 

 

 

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David.Lehman

Joined: 10 Jan 2006
Posts: 265
Location: "Lovely" Fresno CA

Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 4:27 pm Post subject: Different occupations of Kolbers?

So, how much do you charge?...



On 1/28/06, Ralph Hoover <flht99reh(at)netzero.com> wrote:

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 I was really hesitant in replying to the post about our walks of life. but

 I felt a resaponsibility to my brother Kolbers to share my expierence. 



 I'm a  61 year old male topless dancer [Twisted Evil]  in an all male bar

 on Friday nights. I make most of my money from law suite  [Idea] won against

 men who beat me up . I only have to work one night a week   (Fridays) but

 with the lawyer I have, he assures me that that is enough to establish my

 retirement nest egg.  [Wink]  [Wink]

 This allows me a considerable amount of time to fly my Kolb   , with or

 without the neck and back brace   , and sometimes without the

 eye-patch  [Wink] . I hoping that if I continue doing what I doing and add

 Saturday nights, that I could in fact double my income and buy a Kolb Mark

 III with one of the new four cycle motors. This would allow me the

 opertunity to fly out and join John H. and the rest of you in Arazona. If

 any of you pilots woudl be interested, I als do  private partys, and bring

 my own club and chain.   



 Ralph,        the good one   [Question]  [Question]  from Ohio!



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rlaird

Joined: 10 Jan 2006
Posts: 373
Location: Houston

Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 6:24 pm Post subject: Different occupations of Kolbers?

If you wink, and you have an eye-patch, isn't that technically a blink?



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		   > without the neck and back brace   , and sometimes without the

 > eye-patch  [Wink] . I hoping that if I continue doing what I doing and add


	


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flht99reh(at)netzero.net
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Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 11:30 am Post subject: Different occupations of Kolbers?

Robert, I would have to say that it depends on which eye one winks with and

which eye has the patch. I'm not paid to think as a male topless dancer,

just shake my tail feather and run like  $#

% !



And speaking about shaking....Would someone wake and shake John H. He hasn't

said anything lately. John if you're reading, move something. My ex-employer

used to say that it was the only way he knew if someone was still alive! HA,

HA. That and watch who comes in on pay day!

Ralph, the good one from Ohio (like there are any bad ones anywhere in the

USA).






If you wink, and you have an eye-patch, isn't that technically a blink?



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		   > without the neck and back brace   , and sometimes without the

 > eye-patch  [Wink] . I hoping that if I continue doing what I doing and

add
	




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jimh474(at)earthlink.net
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Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 7:20 pm Post subject: Different occupations of Kolbers?

Y'all;



Bro John is out of pocket for a few days, He should be back tomorrow or 

Friday



Bro Jim

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