Light Aircraft Association

The next East Midlands LAA Strut meeting will be on Monday 14th January, 7:30 for 8:00pm at The Plough, Main St, Normanton on Soar, Loughborough LE12 5HB. This months talk is being given by me on the first British jet propelled aircraft, the Gloster E28/39. Powered by Frank Whittle's engine it took ...

I've had good experience (so far) with Aerodux (aka Prefere) recorsinol glue on my Menestrel. I concur with the comment that as long as the gap is reasonably close it works fine with spring or temporary staple pressure. It has been used extensively for the DH88 Comet Racer "Black Magic" rebuild at D...

Well folks, the December meeting of the East Midlands LAA Strut is fast approaching on Monday 10th December, 7:30 for 8:00pm at The Plough, Main St, Normanton on Soar, Loughborough LE12 5HB. I've paid a deposit for 15 places for our Christmas buffet so if you want to come and have not let me know, p...

The next meeting of the East Midlands LAA Strut will be held on Monday 12th November at The Plough, Normanton on Soar, Loughborough, LE12 5HB, 7:30 for 8:00pm. This month we have East Mids Strut member Tony Irwin talking about his Aeronautical Anecdotes over a long career in aviation. Tony Has been ...

The October meeting of the East Midlands LAA Strut will be held on Monday the 8th October at The Plough, Normanton on Soar, Loughborough, LE12 5HB, 7:30 for 8:00pm. This month we have Nick Howarth, speaking about "Jet Engines and Things' (provisional title). Nick is a very enthusiastic hands on engi...

The next meeting of the East Midlands LAA Strut will be on the 10th Sept 2018 at The Plough, Normanton on Soar, Loughborough, LE12 5HB, 7:30 for 8:00pm. As in my previous email, do bring along photos etc. of the LAA Rally last weekend. Fred Fisk will also be showing some stuff about the Spitfire fli...

I have a speaker lined up for our October meeting but have not been able to get one so far for our September meeting. Would anyone like to volunteer to give a short talk/presentation on the 10th September? The backstop plan is a review of the Sywell Rally 31st Aug - 2nd Sept (hope you are coming!) s...

The August meeting of the East Midlands LAA Strut will be held on the Monday 13th August at The Plough, Main St, Normanton on Soar, Loughborough LE12 5HB at 7:30 for 8:00pm. Please note the change of venue back to The Plough - this is due to lack of room availability at The White Lion on the second ...

I would email or phone Joe up and ask his advice. I've had several dealing with Revmaster and they've been very helpful with various technical queries about my engine.

Tony

Hi Richard,

I don't know whether Revmaster could help you. Unfortunately, I did not hang onto the old shells that came with my engine but I recall central grooves.

Tony

Dear All I hope those who of you who are LAA members will have seen the write-up about the East Midlands LAA Strut in the Light Aviation magazine that dropped through your letter boxes at the weekend. It seems that we are one of the 'more mature' struts so something to be proud of don't you think? A...

The next meeting of the East Midlands LAA Strut will be at 7:30pm for and 8:00pm start on Monday 14th May at The White Lion, 352 Tamworth Rd, Sawley, Long Eaton, Nottingham NG10 3AT. This month we have Gordon Moir talking about his trip to Oshkosh. Gordon (based at Derby Airfield) made the trip in h...

Dear All Our speaker for the 12th March meeting of the East Midlands LAA Strut is Alan James. Alan started off in model aircraft building and after learning to fly in gliders and powered aircraft has constructed two plans built aircraft - a Pietenpol Air Camper G-BUCO and an Isaacs Spitfire G-ISAC. ...

The next meeting of the East Midlands LAA Strut will be on Monday 12th Feb, 7:30 for 8:00pm at The Plough, Main St, Normanton on Soar, LE12 5HB. In a change to the published programme (as they say in show biz), instead of doing a quiz, Stewart Jackson will be talking about the life of Beryl Markham....

The next meeting of the East Midlands LAA Strut will be 7:30pm for 8:00pm on Monday 8th Jan at The Plough, Main Street, Normanton on Soar, LE12 5HB. This month, Martin Jones will be talking about aircraft engines, drawing on his considerable experience of operating and maintaining them. As most of u...