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Gday All,
I'm not flying a Kolb these days but still take an interest in the forum. I notice that traffic is getting pretty lean, and I don't know about you but I've about worn out UtubeÂ ...

Sad to hear of the end of that era......Â
But I guess eras do have to pass, and you certainly did fill that one to the max! You did it all, several times over. Not just dreaming and talking about it ...

Gday,
Bolly props are really popular here in Australia for good reasons. They are a very efficient and well-made prop. But they aren't solid carbon fiber like the Warp Drive. I can verify that fr ...

This story just reminds us that we are still waiting for JH's history of his adventures with Kolb. We'd really like to read it an have it recorded. It's aviation history that'll never ...

My FireFly came with a 447 and C-box 3:1 ratio, so the prop was a big three-blade job that wouldn't fit in the trailer. So I just removed the prop each time. Socket in electric drill and torque wr ...

That was the aircraft that I used for the travels that I did over in the USA in 2013,14,15. I flew it as an ultralight, and to my knowledge it never had been registered. The previous owner also flew i ...

A bit off topic, but still indicating the performance capability of a Kolb.
I flew my Firestar ll with a 503, from Telluride, CO, airfield altitude 9,070ft.Â
There's a digital sign at the entra ...

It's gonna be real interesting to find out what the real reason is for all this....

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Sure wish folks would get into the habit of deleting the ever increasing tail of previous posts that follow their post.......

JG

At what point are you measuring the pitch??Â Some do it at the tip but tradition does it 24" out from the center.Â
On a Warp drive I measured a difference of 7 degrees between 24" and the ...

<When I made that comment, "you were good at getting into and out of trouble", I was thinking in particular, to the story you told of clipping a power line and the adventure that start ...

I've posted on this before, but haven't noticed any action.....

John Hauck needs to write up some of his extensive flying adventures. And he certainly does have plenty of great flying adven ...

...He has a knack of getting into trouble and then getting out just as easy....Â
It's true that I did once did mention to my flying instructor that, "... I was good at getting out of troubl ...

Gday All,
Not Kolb related, but definitely flying related.
Flying Adventures in my Beaver ultralight in the 90's.
Priceless memories, almost as good as my memories of flying Kolbs in the USA.
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I wonder how my 503 would do with the 14,000 peaks.....
I got to 13,200 near Telluride in my Firestar with a 503. With lower altitude jetting so running very rich, so could have done better ...

Got an invite to join the Kolb gang at Sun and Fun this year. Plan to fly out to the Rock House, in Oregon, in Sep for our annual Kolb flyin. I'll be celebrating 78 years. I ...

I guess I was lucky when I got my Second Chantz chute repacked and new rocket from John Dunham just when he was getting back into business in 2014. I took the chute directly to him and paid when it wa ...

I've flown and trailered both a FireFly and a FireStar fairly extensively, so have a direct comparison. They both fly really well, and fold/unfold easily.
I trailered and flew the FireFly from 48 ...

I don't know if that forwarded earmold info will get through on the list, so will re-post it here.

We all know how noisy it is to fly right in front of a 2-stroke.Â This earmold might be a ...

Gday All,

This is not Kolb related so I feel that I'm intruding on this forum, but I've had several requests from folks on this listÂ for more info, so I'll try to cover it all right no ...