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The Kolb Firestar is a family of American open cockpit, high wing, pusher configuration, conventional landing gear-equipped ultralight aircraft that was produced in kit form by Kolb Aircraft of Phoenixville, Pennsylvania and intended for amateur construction.〔Vandermeullen, Richard: ''2012 Kit Aircraft Buyer's Guide'', Kitplanes, Volume 28, Number 12, December 2011, page 72. Belvoir Publications. ISSN 0891-1851〕〔〔Cliche, Andre: ''Ultralight Aircraft Shopper's Guide'' 8th Edition, page B-36. Cybair Limited Publishing, 2001. ISBN 0-9680628-1-4〕〔Purdy, Don: ''AeroCrafter - Homebuilt Aircraft Sourcebook'', page 187. BAI Communications. ISBN 0-9636409-4-1〕 The Firestar was designed to comply with the American FAR 103 ultralight regulations, including that category's maximum empty weight and was later a developed into the current production Kolb Firefly.〔〔〔 ==Design and development== The Firestar was intended to be a ''FAR 103'' legal ultralight when powered by the Rotax 277 engine. The Rotax 447 or the Rotax 503 were optional engines, although the aircraft then falls into the US ''Experimental - amateur-built'' category.〔〔〔 The design features a forward fuselage of welded 4130 steel tubing, mated to an aluminum tailboom. The horizontal stabilizer, tail fin and wings are also constructed of riveted aluminum tubing with all flying surfaces covered in doped aircraft fabric. The wings are quick-folding for storage and ground transport. The aircraft can be made ready to fly from trailering in eight minutes by one person, without the use of tools.〔〔〔 The landing gear is sprung tubing for the main gear, with a steerable sprung tailwheel.〔 Factory options originally included removable doors for cool weather flying.〔 The Firestar II was created using the same fuselage but adding a small jump seat in the baggage area. The seating is very restricted for the rear seat passenger and their legs are placed beside the front seat pilot. There are no dual controls. The wing used on the Firestar II is taken from the Kolb Twinstar Mk III. In 1999 the two seat option added only US$216 to the Firestar I base price.〔〔Cliche, Andre: ''Ultralight Aircraft Shopper's Guide'' 8th Edition, page B-87. Cybair Limited Publishing, 2001. ISBN 0-9680628-1-4〕 The Firestar II was developed into the ''Tandem'' ultralight trainer, which was introduced in 2000. The Tandem incorporated dual controls to facilitate flight instruction.〔 In 2012 the company introduced the Firestar II SS, with side-by-side configuration seating.〔Bernard, Mary and Suzanne B. Bopp: ''Kolb Aircraft: Firestar II SS'', Kitplanes, Volume 29, Number 12, December 2012, page 26. Belvoir Publications. ISSN 0891-1851〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kolb Firestar」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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