Light Aircraft Association

Thank you Paul, and I hope you are right.

This debacle is certainly not just a "squabble over a trophy". This is a disgraceful attempt to manipulate the LAA board of directors and the membership in order to gain undeserved recognition and approval, by a woman who apparently will stop at nothing to get her way. The sad thing is that many mem...

I'm sure my wife (girlfriend at the time) would have enjoyed one of those. She did once have two speechless Sea Vixens to deal with at the same time. Though that would only be speechless one way?
Bit more work for the pilot perhaps.

Just don't stand a tin bucket next to it. Haha, reminds me of the compass deviation card for the standby compass in the work machine. It says something like 'radio receivers on'. The cynic in me then has a big thinks bubble coming out my head, "Hold on, the only time I'm going to look at this is if...

Sorry to bounce this back up but I'm afraid I am an advocate of wet compasses, air pressure driven instruments, self contained magnetos, and anything else that is self contained and unreliant on anything else but is own construction. Most electronic devices can get fried by various means apart from ...

I have a rather leaky post box, so the plastic bag has it's advantages. However, talking of waste. I have calculated that taking tablets supplied by the NHS that are packaged in a plastic bubble strip and sealed with a sheet of aluminium, I personally am sending one cubic inch of aluminium to recycl...

Is it possible that the old Perspex has become more rigid due to aging as the plasticiser leaches out?
Plastic fuel pipes spring to mind.

I have a well enough equipped workshop if you haven't fixed the job yet. Sorry I'm in Scotland. How big is "small"?

Most enjoyable day, much appreciated the attendance and chat with the men from the top!
Pity about the wind, but it's Scotland we're used to it

I can't answer your questions as such but I would be inclined to contact the planning department and ask them to make a site visit at a time to suit them, to explain your intended operations. If you only reply to their demands they may think you are trying to hide something. Perhaps a photograph fro...

Mine is the same, AA batteries. Sticking it down with Blu Tak on the battery cover was not my best idea.
It can slip off the battery cover during my sub optimal landings!

Agree with the above. Mine is a B&Q item stuck to the parcel shelf with Blu Tak.
It screams loudly when tested, it's been there five years, flashes a green light every few seconds to indicate it is still alive.

Thank you Ian.
I think I'll give it a go at the drawing dims and see how it performs. Or get someone to tune/check it first.

Thank you Ian. This is getting more confusing with each reply. The idea here is to build the dipole aerial described in the link from Ian Law. Fitted inside a wood and fabric aircraft, so tubing would not be a problem ref: drag. I read this article ex Wikipedia. Instead, it is often desired to have ...

Thank you. Further silly question. Regarding aerial material, is it a good idea or not to use 4mm brass tubing rather than a solid wire for the dipole units? Also on the subject I note that my existing external aerial coax is the single strand solid core wire type, I'm now under the impression this ...