Light Aircraft Association

On the subject of Mogas, I need to check the float level in our Stromberg carb, float level is dependent on specific gravity of the fuel used, any ideas on a ball park figure for Mogas & 100LL?

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The following is taken from a piece printed in the January edition of Aeropilot 1937. “…the Drone took the world of aviation by storm two years ago, when practical aviators and others were wont to sneer at “these toy aeroplanes”. Since its inception many notable flights have been made in this type, ...

Bob The name Drone is perhaps rather confusing 70 years on, it was in no way any sort of what we know today as a target drone, but it was simply called a Drone. It was a conversion of a two seat BAC glider of that era, whereby the manufactures deleted the rear seat and installed a pylon with various...

For those interested in rather older aeroplanes you may be interested to see the 1927 Bristol Cherub engine running in our 1935 BAC Drone aircraft. I used my still camera with its video function for the first time, these links should work - http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=hHh38DHKsV0 and http://uk.you...

Nick, David
Many thanks for the info, I have just looked at the old BB regarding this topic and is at least nice to know its not just us that have had this problem.

We have recently bought a Piper Cub and the problem we've got is that the compass which is mounted in the middle and on top of the instrument panel in the standard Cub position has a large deviation that is outside the normal compass compensation range. I need to degauss the airframe tubes at least ...