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Thom Riddle
Joined: 10 Jan 2006
Posts: 1597
Location: Buffalo, NY, USA (9G0)
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 Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2006 6:12 am Post subject: Fall Color From a KolbFall Color From a Kolb |
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... Last year I got to fly an original Firestar that was under 300
pounds, maybe even part 103 legal. It felt about
the same way.... Richard Pike.....
Richard,
I used to own an early Firestar but have never flown a MkIII. Was the
above statement comparing the Firestar to the MkIII or the Hummer?
Never having flown a Hummer either I'm trying to figure out which
airplane's handling characteristics are similar to the early Firestar.
There may be other Kolbers who have flown one type but not the other
and might like to know too.
Thanks in advance for your clarification.
Attached are a few photos taken on Oct 7 on my flight to Old Rhinebeck
Aerodrome near Kingston, NY. Anyone in that area during the summer
should take the time to see their antique airs how on weekends. They
have a good website with videos of several of their antiques flying. If
I've mentioned this before, forgive my aging memory.
http://www.oldrhinebeck.org/
Thom in Buffalo
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David.Lehman
Joined: 10 Jan 2006
Posts: 265
Location: "Lovely" Fresno CA
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| Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2006 6:28 am Post subject: Fall Color From a KolbFall Color From a Kolb |
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OK, I picked on the Texans about the "mountains", so where's the concrete in the NY pictures?... They have trees in NY?... 
I know there's brands X, Y & Z, but the pictures I enjoy the most come from "brand" Kolb...
Thanx Thom...
DVD
On 11/14/06, Thom Riddle <jtriddle(at)adelphia.net (jtriddle(at)adelphia.net)> wrote: [quote]
.... Last year I got to fly an original Firestar that was under 300
pounds, maybe even part 103 legal. It felt about
the same way.... Richard Pike.....
Richard,
I used to own an early Firestar but have never flown a MkIII. Was the
above statement comparing the Firestar to the MkIII or the Hummer?
Never having flown a Hummer either I'm trying to figure out which
airplane's handling characteristics are similar to the early Firestar.
There may be other Kolbers who have flown one type but not the other
and might like to know too.
Thanks in advance for your clarification.
Attached are a few photos taken on Oct 7 on my flight to Old Rhinebeck
Aerodrome near Kingston, NY. Anyone in that area during the summer
should take the time to see their antique airs how on weekends. They
have a good website with videos of several of their antiques flying. If
I've mentioned this before, forgive my aging memory.
http://www.oldrhinebeck.org/
Thom in Buffalo
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Richard Pike
Joined: 09 Jan 2006
Posts: 1671
Location: Blountville, Tennessee
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| Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2006 6:58 am Post subject: Fall Color From a KolbFall Color From a Kolb |
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The Firestar reminded me of the Hummer, light wing loading, sort of floaty,
the feel that you were flying something that was just wafting along on the
wind. What is it that Beauford calls it, the tissue plane? I forget.
The MKIII feels light compared to a spam can, but it doesn't float so much
as it slices through what the Firestar sort of floated through.
Richard Pike
MKIII N420P (420ldPoops)
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