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Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 7:34 am Post subject: I'm so disappointed...... |
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Last weekend, with the aid of a 40 mph tailwind, I flew the 23 mile trip to the Boshears Fly In at Augusta Ga. in 15 minutes. With 106 mph showing on the GPS, it was almost dream-like to be passing cars on I-20.
At pilot sign-in, I was asked if I wanted to be judged; "Sure" I said.
When award time rolled around, nobody came as I sat anxiously by my plane. Judges must have not liked the old "Yellow Devil".
About a half hour later, one of the EAA judging officials walked up & said "If you had N numbers you would have won Reserve Grand Champion". I advised that "she is an ultralite & don't need no stinkin' N numbers", to which he replied "It's too heavy". I grinned & said "Prove it" & he just grinned & walked away.
I wonder if I should jump through all the hoops & pay the $$$ so I can get a $10 plaque............... Naaah.
Yeah, it's a fat FS II with one seat & 5 gal. tank.
Flame away.
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Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 7:37 am Post subject: I'm so disappointed...... |
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Sorry, I thought my signature would be on there.
Howard Shackleford
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In a message dated 10/20/2008 11:34:56 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, HShack(at)aol.com writes:
Quote: | I wonder if I should jump through all the hoops & pay the $$$ so I can get a $10 plaque............... Naaah.
Yeah, it's a fat FS II with one seat & 5 gal. tank.
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Ralph B
Joined: 14 Apr 2007 Posts: 367 Location: Mound Minnesota
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Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 4:39 pm Post subject: Re: I'm so disappointed...... |
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HShack(at)aol.com Quote: | Last weekend, with the aid of a 40 mph tailwind, I flew the 23 mile trip to the Boshears Fly In at Augusta Ga. in 15 minutes. With 106 mph showing on the GPS, it was almost dream-like to be passing cars on I-20.
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At pilot sign-in, I was asked if I wanted to be judged; "Sure" I said.
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When award time rolled around, nobody came as I sat anxiously by my plane. Judges must have not liked the old "Yellow Devil".
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About a half hour later, one of the EAA judging officials walked up & said "If you had N numbers you would have won Reserve Grand Champion". I advised that "she is an ultralite & don't need no stinkin' N numbers", to which he replied "It's too heavy". I grinned & said "Prove it" & he just grinned & walked away.
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I wonder if I should jump through all the hoops & pay the $$$ so I can get a $10 plaque............... Naaah.
Yeah, it's a fat FS II with one seat & 5 gal. tank.
Flame away.
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Howard, you should be more discrete about advertising your illegal aircraft. This is no different than advertising that you are driving a vehicle without plates, only this is at the federal level, not the state level. A bit more serious than you think and not funny.
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Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 9:58 am Post subject: Re: I'm so disappointed...... |
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On that note. I have a web page for my Firestar and occasionally look at the statistics for it. I see lots of hits to my web page coming from users on FAA's Internet Service Provider. So there ARE people in the FAA that are looking at us. I'm sure there are a few reading these message boards.
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Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 10:19 am Post subject: I'm so disappointed...... |
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Scott, the guys at FAA have to have something to do along with the
donuts and coffee.
I doubt they are peering maliciously at us'ins.
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On 21, Oct 2008, at 1:58 PM, olendorf wrote:
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On that note. I have a web page for my Firestar and occasionally
look at the statistics for it. I see lots of hits to my web page
coming from users on FAA's Internet Service Provider. So there ARE
people in the FAA that are looking at us. I'm sure there are a few
reading these message boards.
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Scott Olendorf
Original Firestar, Rotax 447, Powerfin prop
Schenectady, NY
http://KolbFirestar.googlepages.com
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Joined: 10 Jan 2006 Posts: 1246
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Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 10:35 am Post subject: Re: I'm so disappointed...... |
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HShack,
I am with you on this one ! Weather your plane weighs 254 pounds or 410 pounds really does not affect anyone else... Your firestar is still a single seat ultralight type airplane, even if it is a bit heavy. Trying to make an unrealistic weight can make an airplane dangerous and structurally unsound. The independent spirit and not liking being told what to do in every aspect of our lives is what this country was built on and what made this country great ! Unfortunately people in this country have no understanding of what freedom is anymore. I would probably just put an N Number on it to keep the man off my back, but I do like your spirit !
For those that done believe how this country has forgotten what freedom is, just look at the latest presidential polls as we head towards Socialism.
Mike
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Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 5:19 pm Post subject: Re: I'm so disappointed...... |
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JetPilot wrote: | HShack,
For those that done believe how this country has forgotten what freedom is, just look at the latest presidential polls as we head towards Socialism.
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Mike, while I may somewhat agree with you let's please keep any politics off the board...
Thanks
Geoff Thistlethwaite
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Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 12:42 pm Post subject: I'm so disappointed...... |
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Weather your plane weighs 254 pounds or 274 pounds really does not affect
anyone... >>
I love it. Unfortunately any country, capitalist,socialist, fascist or what
have you which allows its members to pick and choose which particular bits
of the law they will bother to obey must inevitably descend into chaos.
Enjoy while you can.
Cheers
Pat
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Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 2:41 pm Post subject: I'm so disappointed...... |
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Pat:
Tell me what country is NOT 'descending into chaos'. Mine sure is.
NOW! -- Kolb-related; how's your Kolb?
Russ
PS You mean weather, or whether?
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Weather your plane weighs 254 pounds or 274 pounds really does not
affect anyone... >>
I love it. Unfortunately any country, capitalist,socialist, fascist
or what have you which allows its members to pick and choose which
particular bits of the law they will bother to obey must inevitably
descend into chaos.
Enjoy while you can.
Cheers
Pat
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Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 2:48 pm Post subject: I'm so disappointed...... |
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and post some flying pics ...Pat.... Herb
At 05:41 PM 10/24/2008, you wrote:
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Pat:
Tell me what country is NOT 'descending into chaos'. Mine sure is.
NOW! -- Kolb-related; how's your Kolb?
Russ
PS You mean weather, or whether?
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On Oct 24, 2008, at 4:42 PM, pj.ladd wrote:
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>Weather your plane weighs 254 pounds or 274 pounds really does not
>affect anyone... >>
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>I love it. Unfortunately any country, capitalist,socialist, fascist
>or what have you which allows its members to pick and choose which
>particular bits of the law they will bother to obey must inevitably
>descend into chaos.
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>Enjoy while you can.
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>Cheers
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>Pat
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Possums
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Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 3:15 pm Post subject: I'm so disappointed...... |
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At 04:42 PM 10/24/2008, you wrote:
Quote: | I love it. Unfortunately any country, capitalist,socialist, fascist or what have you which allows its members to pick and choose which particular bits of the law they will bother to obey must inevitably descend into chaos.
Enjoy while you can.
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I agree - enjoy while you can. Our country is not as old as yours, but were getting the same diseases.
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"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasure. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most money from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependency, from dependency back to bondage."
Quote by "Alexander Tyler". No, he wasn't writing about the United States.
This quote is well over one hundred years old.
Tyler was writing about the fall of the Athenian Republic.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but we are soon to be outnumbered.
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Dana
Joined: 13 Dec 2007 Posts: 1047 Location: Connecticut, USA
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Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 3:32 pm Post subject: I'm so disappointed...... |
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At 07:15 PM 10/24/2008, possums wrote:
Quote: | "A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasure... |
That's why the United States was NEVER intended to be a democracy, Nowhere in the U.S. Constitution is the word "democracy" found. The Unites States is (or was) a constitutional republic, which is a very different thing. It's slipping into democracy, though, due to a public that doesn't know the difference, and elected officials that don't care.
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blackbird
Joined: 10 Jan 2006 Posts: 51
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Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2008 1:16 am Post subject: I'm so disappointed...... |
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Dana,
This is great......I pledge allegiance to the U.S. republic (see U.S. constitution or Articles of Confederation of the republic) which ended in 1865.....after the north(federals) took the south(confederates) by force.
South Carolina withdrew from the union.........Lincoln in his memoirs wrote that he would make the south fire the first shot. As the union troops withdrew from Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor. The south gave the northern soldiers a ride out to the U.S. navy who were blockading the harbor. When the gunboats fired a warning shot (practice at sea at the time) the navy sank and destroyed the little flotilla including their own men who were evacuating the fort.
The rest is history..............Slavery was the political point............You know us Bad southerners( no one agrees with slavery), but North and South were trading with slaves and cotton.
I'm off my soapbox now.......LOL
Wayne McCullough
Kolbra 004 (building)
I love history and HATE the democracy ( and politics) we have, but I still love our country for what it is worth.
My father (who served in WW2) cannot believe where our morals have gone). He is 84. I'm 53.
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Michael Sharp
Joined: 10 Jan 2006 Posts: 118 Location: Oak Grove, MO (Kansas City)
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Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2008 9:19 am Post subject: I'm so disappointed...... |
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You said it my brother!
You said it…
I’m looking for an island for the family and my Kolb.. I’ll send you flying pics when I can… LOL
Mike
Oak Grove Missouri
Mk III C Zuki! 1.3
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At 07:15 PM 10/24/2008, possums wrote:
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasure...
That's why the United States was NEVER intended to be a democracy, Nowhere in the U.S. Constitution is the word "democracy" found. The Unites States is (or was) a constitutional republic, which is a very different thing. It's slipping into democracy, though, due to a public that doesn't know the difference, and elected officials that don't care.
-Dana
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Ed in JXN
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Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2008 2:19 pm Post subject: I'm so disappointed...... |
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Guys,
Please keep it Kolb-related. There are plenty of other sites for politics!
Ed in JXN
MkII/503
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Jim Baker
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Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2008 6:18 pm Post subject: I'm so disappointed...... |
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This is going to be a test. I'll present the scenario and we'll see
who comes up with the solution that eventually solved a rather
perplexing problem on a friend's Kolb. Some of the data below may be
indirection so be careful.
Kolb FS I , Rotax 377, points ign. Engine ran fine the year prior
which is the last time it was flown. Otherwise, engine started and
run once or twice a month but only up to temperature and only up to
1/3 throttle to keep it lubricated. Fuel system required all hoses to
be changed including primer line. Simplified system by taking out the
primer bulb but left the primer pump. Fuel pump rebuilt, neoprene
connector between carb and intake manifold replaced.
When started and run up the engine failed to make full power hitting
about 5800 rpm full throttle static and showing signs of being too
lean since choke improved the situation but didn't make full power
even then. Suspected the filter, replaced, same result. Re checked
pulse pump, operating normally and providing sufficient fuel as
indicated by the choke application. Float bowl clean, no debris. Jets
were the same as before (remember, operated fine before) so no
change. Jet needle change made no difference.Carb disassembled, all
orifices blown out, floats checked good, float level checked good.
Timing cheacked good as did plug gap and points and condenser. Still
the same low power production aided with choke.
Let's see if anyone can figure out what the problem really was. It
was a funky solution but worth passing on.......
Jim Baker
580.788.2779
Elmore City, OK
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Dana
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Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2008 6:30 pm Post subject: I'm so disappointed...... |
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How was the EGT, CHT, plugs? Jets could need to be changed even if it ran
good before if the weather's different. Also could be crankshaft seals,
cylinder base gaskets, fuel blockage upstream somewhere, or bad gas if
that's what was sitting in the tank for a year.
-Dana
At 10:15 PM 10/25/2008, Jim Baker wrote:
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X-SpamReason %%SpamReason%%:
> Please keep it Kolb-related.
This is going to be a test. I'll present the scenario and we'll see
who comes up with the solution that eventually solved a rather
perplexing problem on a friend's Kolb. Some of the data below may be
indirection so be careful.
Kolb FS I , Rotax 377, points ign. Engine ran fine the year prior
which is the last time it was flown. Otherwise, engine started and
run once or twice a month but only up to temperature and only up to
1/3 throttle to keep it lubricated. Fuel system required all hoses to
be changed including primer line. Simplified system by taking out the
primer bulb but left the primer pump. Fuel pump rebuilt, neoprene
connector between carb and intake manifold replaced.
When started and run up the engine failed to make full power hitting
about 5800 rpm full throttle static and showing signs of being too
lean since choke improved the situation but didn't make full power
even then. Suspected the filter, replaced, same result. Re checked
pulse pump, operating normally and providing sufficient fuel as
indicated by the choke application. Float bowl clean, no debris. Jets
were the same as before (remember, operated fine before) so no
change. Jet needle change made no difference.Carb disassembled, all
orifices blown out, floats checked good, float level checked good.
Timing cheacked good as did plug gap and points and condenser. Still
the same low power production aided with choke.
Let's see if anyone can figure out what the problem really was. It
was a funky solution but worth passing on.......
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Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2008 6:48 pm Post subject: I'm so disappointed...... |
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At 10:15 PM 10/25/2008, you wrote:
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This is going to be a test. I'll present the scenario and we'll see
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indirection so be careful.
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If the holes in the bottom of these lines get clogged - the engine
will never run right.
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Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2008 7:26 pm Post subject: I'm so disappointed...... |
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I'll bet on a air leak at the primer shaft
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Jim Baker
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Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2008 8:03 pm Post subject: I'm so disappointed...... |
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That was one of our thoughts as well so took the primer line off and
capped the barb...no change. Good try tho....
Jim Baker
580.788.2779
Elmore City, OK
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