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John and All,
I will be driving in on Wednesday and staying through Saturday. Looking forward to seeing everybody again and meeting new Kolbers.

I will be there Tuesday-Friday or Saturday. I am looking forward to seeing the Kolb gang and any new Kolb pilots/builders. What will be displayed at #99? I will look you up.

Pat, I also dropped the left trailing edge on my Xtra. I am waiting for calmer winds to start trimming for yaw. Could you give some more information on your draught excluder? How did you attach it. Ma ...

My VW with all accessories (oil cooler, redrive, etc.) weighs 181 lbs dry. Rich N has done an amazing job keeping the weight down on his plane. This winter I will see what I can do to reduce my planes ...

Rick,
My Xtra is heavy. 691 lbs empty. All the extra "doo dads" and creature comforts really add up.

I just talked to Travis at Kolb and he mentioned that he had posted a slide show of my Mark 111 Xtra with a VW on YouTube. Here is the link if interested. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DEoXimc3vA. I ...

Wow Rick, Jim and Ted. Your pictures of flying along Lake Michigan make me a little homesick for the times when I lived up there in Michigan. Thanks for the memories.

So sorry to hear this news. Our thoughts and prayers are with Scott's family.
Craig and Kilty Spoke.

Bob, You are correct. I am very pleased with the engine setup on my Kolb. Thanks for posting the pictures of my engine however I have since changed the exhaust. I was not happy with the drag and weigh ...

Bob, I have been flying my VW redrive XTRA since April this year. It has been everything that I could have hoped for. Contact me anytime. I'm always glad to talk about my plane.

Congratulations. The picture looks great. Have a great time in Oshkosh. Can’t wait to hear about the first flight.

Looks good Scott. I'm going to try to be at Airventure. Hope to see you guys there.

Best of luck to Bryan, Travis, Dennis and all. These are great people leading a great company.

I flew my Mark 111 Xtra for the first time tonight. I need to do a few adjustments but it was a great flight. I plan to be at Sun n Fun Friday and Saturday. Hope to see some of you there...

I’m also glad to hear that Kolb will be building a VW powered Xtra next. I was hoping to have some flight time on mine already but not yet. There was some interference with the wings and the engine ...

Sorry, I'll try this again. The correct web address is http://www.gulftel.com/cspoke/.

Thanks for all the kind words about my new plane. I am so excited for the first flight but I will be taking it slow. I uploaded a few of my construction log pics to a web site. The address is http://w ...

I received my airworthiness certificate today. YEA!!!!! Mark 3 XTRA, N381CS is a real airplane. Now the fun starts-flight testing. It looks like rain and storms all weekend but as soon as the weather ...

I too am looking forward to spending time with all the Kolb gang at Sun n Fun. I'll be there Friday and Saturday. Hope to see some of you then

Scott,
I discovered the same thing as you. The manual does not address the drag strut rivets but I also noticed them on the Kolb demo plane. I searched and eventually did find the reference to them ...