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Ralph Hoover
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 Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 5:48 pm Post subject: Whats in a name? |
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After continuing to see "Miss P'fer" as the name to John's Hauck's plane, I got to thinking. And that always becomes dangerous to a mind like mine. But the weather, being as it is here in Ohio, I thought It would be a fun thing to name your planes , as John has done. (We used to name our Harleys).
John, I have no idea what is behind the name “Miss P’fer”, but it no doubt would be an interesting story. If you have, Not since I have been a reader of thsi site, so please bore the oldtimers and enlighten us newer drivers!
And since I am waiting for a response, here are the names I have donned for others on this site, for their plane, based on their messages, locations, habits or what have you. And guys! Its all in fun.
For John Houck, I would name his plane “Plow-boy”, Richard Pike would have his named “Second Coming”, Bob N. as “Profound”, Bill Vincent - “Chill-Out”, David Lehman “Water-boy”, Biglar -”Get-er-done”, Jack Carillon (not referring to size, but location) “Blimp”, Thom Riddle - “Slide Rule” and last but not least..........MIKE in MN......................Weldrod! And that dog of his......Oxcy.!
Now come and beat me up!
Oh-Hi -O Ralph
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John Hauck
Joined: 09 Jan 2006
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Location: Titus, Alabama (hauck's holler)
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| Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 6:18 pm Post subject: Whats in a name? |
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| John, I have no idea what is behind the name ?oMiss P?Tfer |
Oh-Hi -O Ralph
Ralph:
Had a friend who had a pet turtle named T'fer, T fer turtle.
Later on down the road, I found a tree frog, put him in a terrarium on
the kitchen counter for my little boys to observe. His name was
F'fer, F fer frog.
When I built my my Ultrastar, it was named P'fer, P fer plane.
The Firestar was named Cousin P'fer, because I watched an old
aerobatic Stearman at Lakeland fly. Its name was Cousin Smoky, IIRC.
When I built the mkIII, this airplane was more sophisticated than any
of the other two. She was appropriately named Miss P'fer. She has
been called all kinds of names. Mostly Miss Pifer. 
She is Miss P'fer, P fer plane.
That is the end of my story. If I build another airplane I will name
it Ernie after my last big old black male Bassett Hound. Why? Cause
I liked Ernie a lot.
john h
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| Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 6:23 pm Post subject: Re: Whats in a name? |
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Hi Ralph,
My plane already has a name...She's "Miss Lucky Stars"
Because every time I'm Flying ...I'm Thanking my "Lucky Stars"
But "Jaz" liked her nick name...she said grrrrr ...eat
Gotta Fly...
Mike & "Jaz" in MN
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Thom Riddle
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Location: Buffalo, NY, USA (9G0)
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| Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 5:36 am Post subject: Re: Whats in a name? |
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Oh Hi Oh Ralph,
I like your moniker assignments. Since I was assigned Slide-Rule by your O-High-ness, I'll tell you that I still have the original slide rule that my father used when he was a student at Auburn University (that's in Ala-dam-bama) from which he graduated in 1929.
Thom in Buffalo
aka Slide-Rule
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| Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 9:52 am Post subject: Whats in a name? |
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Have my Eugene Dietzen Microglide Decimal Trig Type Log Log SN
048057 from '41...MADE IN U.S.A. Also some made while teaching class
in slide rule construction...one has five scales: top, slider,
center, another slider, bottom scale.
regards,
Bob N. FireFly 070 Old Kolb
http://www.angelfire.com/rpg/ronoy/
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| Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 10:15 am Post subject: Whats in a name? |
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At 12:51 PM 2/19/2007, Bob Noyer wrote:
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Have my Eugene Dietzen Microglide Decimal Trig Type Log Log SN
048057 from '41...
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Well, I'm a little younger I guess... alas, my Dad's good slide rule (c.
1948) was stolen from our car along with just about everything else my
older sister was bringing back to college around 1970... so I have his
"less good" one, and a newer plastic one. When I was in 8th grade (1972)
it was the very last year that slide rule was taught, next year's class was
required to buy those newfangled electronic calculators. 'Course the
circular slide rule E6B was still in use when I learned to fly a couple of
years later...
-Dana
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John Hauck
Joined: 09 Jan 2006
Posts: 4639
Location: Titus, Alabama (hauck's holler)
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| Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 11:55 am Post subject: Whats in a name? |
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'Course the
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couple of
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Dana:
You mean they replaced the E6B???
jhn h
mkIII
PS: You guys see any sense in archiving chit chat??? If so, maybe
important chit chat??? No chit!
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d-m-hague(at)comcast.net
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| Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 2:34 pm Post subject: Whats in a name? |
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At 02:55 PM 2/19/2007, John Hauck wrote:
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You mean they replaced the E6B???
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Oh, I dunno, it's been awhile since I actually plotted a cross country...
my E6B still works... just figured everything had gone electronic by now.
FWIW, I pulled my E6B out a couple of years ago to try to figure out wind
angles for a powered paraglider... but the scales don't go that slow, had
to figure it out the long way.
-Dana
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| Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 6:13 pm Post subject: Whats in a name? |
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Really, a PPG is just like any other aircraft... fly it within its
limitations (yes, including weather limitations) and you're OK. Don't fly
one on an unstable windy day! PPG *looks* insane, yes... but if turns out
the accident rate is comparable to GA (at least as far as fatalities go, I
admit there's more chance of a broken ankle or such). PPG isn't as
effortless as a good pilot can make it look, but it's WAY easier than a
beginner makes it look!
PPG was my path back to flying after finally selling my T-Craft 10 years
after I last flew it... and 5 years and 250 PPG hours later, I finally have
another plane (my Ultrastar, which I have yet to fly)... but I'm not giving
up PPG, either.
-Dana
P.S. Some of my PPG video gives a taste:
http://youtube.com/results?search_query=parafan&search=Search
At 07:00 PM 2/19/2007, knowvne(at)aol.com wrote:
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A powerered PG??
Dana Are you soft in the Grey Mattter? 
I'd rather walk cross wind than trying to fly one of those things ..
HAHAHAHAHA
Ive watched 3 Pilots bounce flying those things on a unstable windy day...
KEEP IN MIND. It's not a parachute and even they will collapses from time
to time...
Cool STABLE days only or you asking for trouble...
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John Hauck
Joined: 09 Jan 2006
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Location: Titus, Alabama (hauck's holler)
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| Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 6:38 pm Post subject: Whats in a name? |
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| Really, a PPG is just like any other aircraft... |
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Hi Dana:
Did you know that Kolbs are not like any other aircraft? Kolbs are in
a class by themselves. They are special. They fly better, and
satisfy my every aviating desire. That is why I fly them.
When I see PPG, I think of Pittsburg Plate Glass.
PPG's are those little things at Sun and Fun and Oshkosh that eat up
the best flying time during the day, while the ULs and light planes
sit on the ground.
Guess if I didn't want to do anything but try and keep my suspension
lines straight and out of the prop, and make it nearly all the away
around the UL traffic pattern at Lakeland and OSH, I'd be chomping at
the bit to be a PPG guy.
The neatest thing about a Kolb is the amount of time, effort, and
money, we put into our projects. Then the years of great flying that
our little airplanes provide us for all that work we put into them.
My old bird is 15 years old now, but she flies like she did when she
was a baby. She takes me where I want to go. The airport perimeter
is only the beginning. She has carried me and my gear for as long as
48 days, all over CONUS, Canada, and Alaska. She has nothing in
common with a PPG, glass or parachute.
I, personally, have nothing against PPG's and powered parachutes,
other than eating up good flight time at the two biggest airshows in
the world. They just do not appeal to me and my style flying.
Kolbs do it!
john h
mkIII
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Richard Pike
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Location: Blountville, Tennessee
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| Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 7:18 pm Post subject: Whats in a name? |
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Several years ago, I went to Sun N' Fun, spent the day looking around like
everyone else does. But I was really waiting for evening so I could watch
the light planes & U/L's fly. 5 PM, wandered down to Paradise City, and
nobody was flying but PPG's. Ran into Hauck and asked him if he knew what
the deal was. Told me that the Management had decided that nobody could fly
but PPG's.
Got in the car and left. Haven't been back. Would hate to drive all the way
down there and find out I had showed up on the wrong day again.
Richard Pike
MKIII N420P (420ldPoops)
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| Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 7:39 pm Post subject: Whats in a name? |
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At 09:37 PM 2/19/2007, John Hauck wrote:
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Did you know that Kolbs are not like any other aircraft? Kolbs are in
a class by themselves...
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Touche!
| Quote: | PPG's are those little things at Sun and Fun and Oshkosh that eat up
the best flying time during the day, while the ULs and light planes
sit on the ground.
Guess if I didn't want to do anything but try and keep my suspension
lines straight and out of the prop, and make it nearly all the away
around the UL traffic pattern at Lakeland and OSH, I'd be chomping at
the bit to be a PPG guy...
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Fortunately I have no desire to fly a PPG at Oshkosh, why bother when you
can take off from a baseball diamond?... they're more for buzzing around
the fields at treetop level, or a long cruise along the beach.
As I said I don't intend to quit PPG... but I'm sure I'll be flying the PPG
a lot less once I get my Kolb airborne... 
-Dana
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Steve Boetto
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| Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 5:10 am Post subject: Whats in a name? |
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In a message dated 2/19/2007 9:38:55 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, jhauck(at)elmore.rr.com writes:
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Did you know that Kolbs are not like any other aircraft? Kolbs are in
a class by themselves. They are special. They fly better, and
satisfy my every aviating desire. That is why I fly them.
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Hi John, I agree, My Firefly on floats is unlike anything I has seen. It is a joy to fly and can be folded in minutes and transported to distant locations if you do not feel like flying that far. I can't think of anything that could replace it. BTW, his name is Puddle Buster. Named after Bryan Melborn's Poodle.
Puddle Buster
Steve
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| Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 5:54 am Post subject: Whats in a name? |
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Well said John same thoughts from where I sit also
Ellery
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| Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 1:31 pm Post subject: Re: Whats in a name? |
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Hey Ralph,
After your plane found that corn field...I guess you could call
her "Corn Dart" , can't call her "Miss" corn Dart....
because you didn't miss....
Errr pass the corn on the Kolb....please.... He he he.....
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Warmin up....gonna have ta git back out in the Garage...
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Gotta Fly...
Mike & "Jaz" in MN
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Now come and beat me up!
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David.Lehman
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| Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 4:09 pm Post subject: Whats in a name? |
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Ralph...
I already named mine...
Across the nose, forward of the windshield is written "El Chingadero"... I just liked the way it sounded, now my Hispanic Mother-In-Law tells me it's Mexican slang for Little "F"er... Maybe it's Little P'fer...
DVD
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On 2/18/07, Ralph Hoover <flht99reh(at)columbus.rr.com (flht99reh(at)columbus.rr.com)> wrote: [quote]--> Kolb-List message posted by: "Ralph Hoover" < flht99reh(at)Columbus.rr.com (flht99reh(at)Columbus.rr.com)>
After continuing to see "Miss P'fer" as the name to John's Hauck's plane, I got to thinking. And that always becomes dangerous to a mind like mine. But the weather, being as it is here in Ohio, I thought It would be a fun thing to name your planes , as John has done. (We used to name our Harleys).
John, I have no idea what is behind the name "Miss P'fer", but it no doubt would be an interesting story. If you have, Not since I have been a reader of thsi site, so please bore the oldtimers and enlighten us newer drivers!
And since I am waiting for a response, here are the names I have donned for others on this site, for their plane, based on their messages, locations, habits or what have you. And guys! Its all in fun.
For John Houck, I would name his plane "Plow-boy", Richard Pike would have his named "Second Coming", Bob N. as "Profound", Bill Vincent - "Chill-Out", David Lehman "Water-boy", Biglar -"Get-er-done", Jack Carillon (not referring to size, but location) "Blimp", Thom Riddle - "Slide Rule" and last but not least..........MIKE in MN......................Weldrod! And that dog of his......Oxcy.!
Now come and beat me up!
Oh-Hi -O Ralph
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Ralph Hoover
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| Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 5:15 pm Post subject: Re: Whats in a name? |
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Planecrazzzy, said:
Hey Ralph,
After your plane found that corn field...I guess you could call
her "Corn Dart" , can't call her "Miss" corn Dart....
because you didn't miss....
Errr pass the corn on the Kolb....please.... He he he..... "
Gotcha son, it was a "Soy Field"! He, He!
If it was corn at that time it would have been inverted atop the corn stalks reading an additional 6 feet on the ALT. And the wings would have definitely had stalk rash. The soy bent over and accepted the authority of the mighty fine Kolb aircraft, bowing somewhat respectfully as they should. Therefore, since I was relaxed throughout the whole landing, confident that the Kolb was all that "The Man" made it to be, my Firestar is named "At Ease", although it might have been more aptly named "Fall-In"!
Now get down and you and your dog, give me twenty-five!
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Russ Kinne
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How did Jazz get her name?
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Hi Ralph,
My plane already has a name...She's "Miss Lucky Stars"
Because every time I'm Flying ...I'm Thanking my "Lucky Stars"
But "Jaz" liked her nick name...she said grrrrr ...eat
Gotta Fly...
Mike & "Jaz" in MN
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