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e.bayliss(at)blueyonder.c
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Posted: Sat Dec 25, 2010 10:31 am Post subject: Christmas Day flight

Merry Christmas to all on the list 

  Took my mk111 up for a quick fly around today  and thought you may like to see a few pictures of a snowy cold ( by our  standards anyway ) minus 11

 merseyside in the uk 

  

  Eddie

  mk111c

 rotax 582

 arplast 62" 3 blade

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John Hauck

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

Posted: Sat Dec 25, 2010 10:50 am Post subject: Christmas Day flight

Merry Christmas to all on the list

 Took my mk111 up for a quick fly around today and thought you may like to 

see a few pictures of a snowy cold ( by our standards anyway ) minus 11

merseyside in the uk



 Eddie

 mk111c

rotax 582

arplast 62" 3 blade



Eddie/Gang:



Merry Christmas to you and all the rest of the Kolb gang in the UK.  You 

too, Patrick L.  



Never seen more beautiful Kolb photos, especially on Christmas Day, on and 

over the snow covered English countryside.



Thanks for sharing with us.



It is refreshing to see and read about a Kolber that braves weather like 

this to fly and take pictures.



I like this much better than reading about buying motorcycles and searching 

for totally non-Kolb related items.  Please help us keep the Kolb List about 

Kolbs.  Thanks, folks.



Take care,



john h

mkIII

hauck's holler, alabama

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

Arksey(at)aol.com
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Posted: Sat Dec 25, 2010 11:33 am Post subject: Christmas Day flight

Thanks Eddie for posting the pic's, enjoyed them. That is about the same  snow cover that we now have here in Southern Michigan..    Merry  Christmas and Happy new years to you .

 Jim Swan

  

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captainron1(at)cox.net
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Posted: Sat Dec 25, 2010 12:08 pm Post subject: Christmas Day flight

That dude in the Trike must be freezing his bazooky's off. Nice pix where were they taken?

e.bayliss(at)blueyonder.c
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Posted: Sat Dec 25, 2010 1:04 pm Post subject: Christmas Day flight

Thanks for the Nice  comments ( All who  did )  The dude in the Trike is actually My nephew and his girlfriend .Pics  where taken just north of Liverpool in the Uk. We fly from Ince  Blundell

  

  

  53 32N 03 02W  

  http://www.wlms.co.uk/directions.htm



  

 a microlight (ultralight) flying club and school  are based there My nephew is one of the instructors

  While we were up I got about 30 mins of video  as well and will put that on you tube when I edit out the worst of the shaky  bits . Christmas day here is the one day of the year that John lennon airport is  closed so we Contacted Manchester airport and  got permission to fly up the  river Mersey  as far as the City center to the Liver Buildings. that  is  the Video and may be of interest to you . We had a great flight but was  a bit iffy landing on an icy snowed up runway 

  

  

  

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slyck(at)frontiernet.net
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Posted: Sat Dec 25, 2010 4:57 pm Post subject: Christmas Day flight

Eddie, very pretty.  Looks just like home.  BB

New York State

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On 25, Dec 2010, at 1:33 PM, Eddie wrote:

[quote]Merry Christmas to all on the list

 Took my mk111 up for a quick fly around today and thought you may like to see a few pictures of a snowy cold ( by our standards anyway ) minus 11

merseyside in the uk 

 

 Eddie

 mk111c

rotax 582

arplast 62" 3 blade

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Dennis Thate

Joined: 18 Nov 2010
Posts: 362

Posted: Sat Dec 25, 2010 6:22 pm Post subject: Re: Christmas Day flight

Thanks for the cool tour of your country. Life must be easy there by the prime meridian. Never any difficult math.

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Watkinsdw

Joined: 15 Mar 2009
Posts: 138
Location: Deerfield Beach, FL

Posted: Sun Dec 26, 2010 5:29 am Post subject: Re: Christmas Day flight

Ok, this flight officially makes me a weenie. Good on you for braving the cold to fly on such a beautiful Christmas Day.

Spoiled in Florida,

Dave

e.bayliss(at)blueyonder.c
Guest

Posted: Sun Dec 26, 2010 6:44 am Post subject: Christmas Day flight

Dave 

 I wouldnt say brave and this makes no one a weenie  after 40 odd years of motorcycling in this country (all weather biker including  winter weekend camps) I know that you can cope for a while with cold, if you can  get enough layers of clothing and still be able to comfortably move around and  not restrict blood flow to your extremities. This flight was about 45  mins. To be honest although fingers and toes were cold when we landed it was  actually quite pleasent in the air the kolb cockpit does a good job as a mini  greenhouse when the sun is out, it was worse rigging and de rigging the aircraft  as gloves and small safety clips dont go well together and if you dropped one in  the snow ....goodbye forever to that one

  After the flight I had to put the plane on  its tail trolley and tow it back to the hanger with my 4x4 as it was challenging  to say the least when off  the scraped parts of the runway It would not  have been possible to fly at all if not for other club members who had timeto  spare over the last few days and cobbled together an old trike trailer some  scaffolding planks and some ballast weight into a homemade  snowplough 

  Eddie

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Thom Riddle

Joined: 10 Jan 2006
Posts: 1597
Location: Buffalo, NY, USA (9G0)

Posted: Sun Dec 26, 2010 7:10 am Post subject: Re: Christmas Day flight

Thanks for the great video, Eddie. 



I sent the link to my son-in-law (from Carlisle) who went to college in Liverpool and now teaches at a college here in Buffalo, New York. Though he has never flown low and slow over Liverpool, I'm sure he will recognize some of the landmarks you overflew.

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pj.ladd(at)btinternet.com
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Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2010 3:11 am Post subject: Christmas Day flight

You too, Patrick L.  >>



Gee, I have been specialy selected. Did that message come from Readers 

Digest?  No?



I did not fly my Kolb over Christmas.

Does that make this Kolb related?

I spent Boxing Day with 10 visitors in the house, including 3 children, 2 

burst pipes and a hole in the kitchen ceiling and the outside temps at 12C 

below..



First the water went off as the pipes froze, great with 10 people waiting to 

use the lavatories, then the water came back on as the pipes thawed, and 

burst and water poured through the ceiling.



Sorry this is not Kolb related John. I promise that this is the last time I 

send such a message in 2010



I trust things went more smoothly at the Hollow.



Happy New Year John and to everyone on the list



Cheers



Pat

pj.ladd(at)btinternet.com
Guest

Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2010 4:48 am Post subject: Christmas Day flight

Hi Eddie,

  

 Great pics. Nice looking plane. I like the red  struts. They really pick out the line.

  

 Mine is red/white also but not as neat as  yours.

  

 The weather has broken down here in the south.  Roads are clear and all snow is gone. Floods to look forward to now I suppose.  Not forgetting the fact that we shall probably get the tailend of the snow now  falling in American East Coast in about a week.

  

 Cheers and have a good New Year

  

 Pat

  

 By the way did you read my `Parlez-vous franglais`  letter in Microlight Flying?. Caused a few chuckles on my  field.

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e.bayliss(at)blueyonder.c
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Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2010 10:57 am Post subject: Christmas Day flight

Thanks Pat

   It Looks ok in the photos but in reality  with its first flight being april 1995 she is showing her age a bit when you get  close . I spend a fair bit of time each year chasing rust away from the cage  tubes and also as I bought her part repaired after an engine out on landing here   at ince  some of the fabric is more patches than fabric . That said  she flies well and with two up and full fuel  I often see in excess of 800  fpm on the vario . and If just pottering about locally can use as little as  12/13 litres an hour.

                                         I would love to recover the whole thing and powder coat the metal work but  as I am just really getting comfortable flying her now after owning / repairing  for about four years I dont want to take her out of the air untill my inspector  says I have to. 

  HAve a good new year yourself   if  I can get day a pass from she who must be obeyed I am going to try and fly  new years day .It depends on the airfield , Ince can get very waterlogged and  after all the snow it will probably be about a foot deep outside my  hanger/trailer I will just have to keep my fingers crossed .

    Happy new year  to all on the  list and looking forward to another years kolbing  in the Uk

  

  Eddie

 mk 111 c

 rotax 582

 arplast 3blade 

  

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