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Paul Petty

Joined: 11 Jan 2006
Posts: 226
Location: Mississippi

Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 1:07 pm Post subject: Re: Ms Dixie update

Well gang Ms Dixie recived her registration as of today! Only problem is they listed TNK as the MFG and not me so after a phone call they (FAA) said no problem they would make the changes and issue a new registration and send it to me ASAP. I dont know about you guys/gals but once you get them on the phone they are a real pleasure to work with.



Next is moving her to KLUL and let the fun begin!



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http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNumSQL.asp?NNumbertxt=408CP

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Paul Petty
Kolbra #12
Ms Dixie
912 UL 70" warp

John Hauck

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

Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 1:24 pm Post subject: Ms Dixie update

Great news Paul!



You and Charley will be flying before you know it.



Good luck,



john h

mkIII



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John Hauck
MKIII/912ULS
hauck's holler
Titus, Alabama

Paul Petty

Joined: 11 Jan 2006
Posts: 226
Location: Mississippi

Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 10:14 am Post subject: Re: Ms Dixie update

Gang,

I have allways been told the FAA takes forever to do anything. They made the change to the MFG in less than 2 days. Were good to go.



http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNumSQL.asp?NNumbertxt=408CP

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Paul Petty
Kolbra #12
Ms Dixie
912 UL 70" warp

Paul Petty

Joined: 11 Jan 2006
Posts: 226
Location: Mississippi

Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 10:44 am Post subject: Re: Ms Dixie update

Ms Dixie gets her N-Number

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Paul Petty
Kolbra #12
Ms Dixie
912 UL 70" warp

Paul Petty

Joined: 11 Jan 2006
Posts: 226
Location: Mississippi

Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 11:18 am Post subject: Re: Ms Dixie update

Well gang if all goes as planned Ms. Dixie will me moved to KLUL Hesler Nobel Field this saturday for Inspection and final tweaking and adjusting. Then some taxi testing sunday! What a fathers day treat ey? I will post photos and video for you all to enjoy if everything goes as planned. Our club is having a fly in and I guess most will be at Homers. Hope you all have a great flight and we hope to be joining you soon!   



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Paul Petty
Kolbra #12
Ms Dixie
912 UL 70" warp

Michael Sharp

Joined: 10 Jan 2006
Posts: 118
Location: Oak Grove, MO (Kansas City)

Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 11:38 am Post subject: Ms Dixie update

Hootie Hoo!!!!!

   

  Congrads!!!

   

  Good Luck and Be Safe!



Paul Petty <paulpetty(at)myway.com> wrote:

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Well gang if all goes as planned Ms. Dixie will me moved to KLUL Hesler Nobel Field this saturday for Inspection and final tweaking and adjusting. Then some taxi testing sunday! What a fathers day treat ey? I will post photos and video for you all to enjoy if everything goes as planned. Our club is having a fly in and I guess most will be at Homers. Hope you all have a great flight and we hope to be joining you soon!  



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Paul Petty

Kolbra #12

Ms Dixie

Wating for final inspection and cert.





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Mike

mgerman(at)celestica.com
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Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2007 4:14 am Post subject: Ms Dixie update

Hi Paul!! 

You have done an outstanding job building your Kolbra!   Only you know how much work it has been and in some cases more work then building from scratch.  In my option you will have the nicest Kolbra built to date.  It has been fun working with you and seeing the completion of the project.  Cant wait to see it take flight.  

 

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Mark German 

912-Kolbra  

280-hrs. 

Chisago City MN. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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 Well gang if all goes as planned Ms. Dixie will me moved to KLUL Hesler Nobel Field this saturday for Inspection and final tweaking and adjusting. Then some taxi testing sunday! What a fathers day treat ey? I will post photos and video for you all to enjoy if everything goes as planned. Our club is having a fly in and I guess most will be at Homers. Hope you all have a great flight and we hope to be joining you soon!   

 

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 Paul Petty

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 Ms Dixie

 Wating for final inspection and cert.

 

 

 

 

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Paul Petty

Joined: 11 Jan 2006
Posts: 226
Location: Mississippi

Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2007 11:39 am Post subject: Re: Ms Dixie update

Well gang got up at 4:00am and headed to KLUL to work on Ms Dixie in hopes of a first start up after a long time and low and behold at 11:30am with a shaking right hand I turned the key and yelled "CLEAR PROP". With the airplabe tied to the Z71 she came to life and to my releif she stopped when i turned her off! Then I un-tied her and went for my first ride under her own power. The 912 puured nicely and I found my first area of adjustment...the brakes. Glad to report no leaks or problems other than the south mississippi heat. It's like a tanning bed in there! the throttle is the next area of attention as it is super touchy. at no throtle the RPM's drop to 800 and moving the throttle a fraction she jumps to 1800. It's as if she wants to jump into the air. will spen the next few days tweaking and hope to find some improvement.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQf1WsKJSCI

let me know if the link works or not



regards

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Kolbra #12
Ms Dixie
912 UL 70" warp

Bob Dalton

Joined: 09 Jan 2006
Posts: 68
Location: Manteca, Ca

Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2007 12:27 pm Post subject: Ms Dixie update

Paul,



Video link worked fine, congrats on the startup and taxi!



Bob D.

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Paul Petty

Joined: 11 Jan 2006
Posts: 226
Location: Mississippi

Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2007 1:49 pm Post subject: Re: Ms Dixie update

Thanks Bob. got the other video uploaded.

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=kolbra012

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Paul Petty
Kolbra #12
Ms Dixie
912 UL 70" warp

DAquaNut(at)aol.com
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Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2007 7:10 pm Post subject: Ms Dixie update

In a message dated 6/17/2007 2:40:32 PM Central Standard Time, paulpetty(at)myway.com writes: 

 

 

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		   Then I un-tied her and went for my first ride under her own power. The 912 puured nicely 	
 

 

        Paul, 

 Congrats on that first taxi! It probably does not sound  exciting to the old timers, but                       I only have 40 something hours on the Firefly and remember the excitement with my first taxi. It means your one step farther in the process of getting in the air !  Saver the moment and I anticipate that 1 st flight report. Appearently my 447 decarb turned out OK ,as I have put 3 or 4  hours on it since the decarb  and all seems normal . 

 

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Paul Petty

Joined: 11 Jan 2006
Posts: 226
Location: Mississippi

Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 7:00 pm Post subject: Re: Ms Dixie update

Well gang went for second taxi test today and found myself more comphy with Ms Dixie. Brakes are better and noises are more fimilar to me now. Amazing how much noise transends from the tail wheel to the cabin. My throttle is one touchy SOB! I need to figure out a way to make it more manageable or just get used to it. kept RPM's above 1500 the whole time and she ran much better. First taxi test was fun second was even better as i went farther out on the ramp and the hold short area and watched a citation land and taxi by me. dialed the pitch back to 10 degrees and that seams to be better. DAR may be here saturday to do inspection and first flight may happen this weekend if things go well. I hope the bigger 6" tail wheel comes in tomorrow so i can get it mounted and see an improvement in ground handeling. Stay tuned.........

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Paul Petty
Kolbra #12
Ms Dixie
912 UL 70" warp

Paul Petty

Joined: 11 Jan 2006
Posts: 226
Location: Mississippi

Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 10:27 am Post subject: Re: Ms Dixie update

Gang,



Just got word that Ms Dixie is set to get her airworthyness inspection this Saturday at 9:00am.



Will keep you posted



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Kolbra #12
Ms Dixie
912 UL 70" warp

John Hauck

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

Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 11:06 am Post subject: Ms Dixie update

| Just got word that Ms Dixie is set to get her airworthyness 

inspection this Saturday at 9:00am.



| Paul Petty

Gang:



Is Paul excited???  Naw!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Good luck Paul.  I'll talk to Charlie H before he flies.



john h

mkIII



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John Hauck
MKIII/912ULS
hauck's holler
Titus, Alabama

jb92563

Joined: 23 Mar 2007
Posts: 314
Location: Southern California

Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 11:22 am Post subject: Re: Ms Dixie update

Does that mean you can fly this weekend or do you have to wait on paperwork?



Your work is so perfect & meticulous it is simply not possible that it won't get passed.....great job!



Best of Luck!

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Kolb UltraStar (Cuyuna UL-202)
Moni MotorGlider
Schreder HP-11 Glider
Grob 109 Motorglider

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Paul Petty

Joined: 11 Jan 2006
Posts: 226
Location: Mississippi

Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 2:29 pm Post subject: Re: Ms Dixie update

Thanks Ray and John....it's nut cucting time now! Im very excited to say the the less

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Paul Petty
Kolbra #12
Ms Dixie
912 UL 70" warp

Paul Petty

Joined: 11 Jan 2006
Posts: 226
Location: Mississippi

Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2007 2:42 pm Post subject: Re: Ms Dixie update

Ms. Dixie got her airworthy cert. (at) 1:00pm CST today. Airplane checked out 100% however paper work was not in order. I highly recomend to anyone useing a IA or DAR to request a form of "needed" documents WAY before hand. I had to go find a notary on a Saturday morning to whitness my signature on a paper that states I built the airplane. Not an easy thing to do in a small town but i got-her-done. Next was I had no airframe log book. A MUST in my case and with good luck we found a new un-used one! Most have posted that the check out lasted less than an hour.. mine started at 9:00am and finished at 2:30pm. This was mainly in part to 1. DAR was old flying buddy of Charley and 2 my lack of paperwork. Heck he spent more time drooling over the RV8 than he did checking out the Kolbra. Ken Reeves and Ms. Bobby came over for the event and we had a great visit. It was a long HOT 24 hr day to get her done but we are good to go. BTW Ms. Dixie weighed in at 590lbs Empty... this was a shocking discovery as i was thinking more along the lines of 700 lbs with all the mods. W&B revealed that she is out of CG with full fuel and a 175 pilot solo front seat but were not sold on the numbers given to us and will re check this over closely. Ben a long day and Im' going to shower and soak in the pool for an early start in the morning for a possible "First flight" some time after 08.00 we will see....

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Kolbra #12
Ms Dixie
912 UL 70" warp

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