Light Aircraft Association

As we can't meet physically, I propose to set up a virtual Strut meeting using Zoom as a way of keeping things going. I will send out a link by email that you should be able to join via a normal web browser (anyone reading this who does not get my monthly meeting invites, please contact me at tonyra...

The next meeting of the East Midlands LAA Strut will be held 7:30pm for an 8:00pm start on Monday 9th March 2020 at The Plough,  Main St, Normanton on Soar, Loughborough LE12 5HB. This month we have Richard Glassock who will be talking about the Electric Cassutt Racer project at Nottingham Universit...

The next meeting of the East Midlands LAA Strut will be held 7:30pm for an 8:00pm start on Monday 10th Feb 2020 at The Plough, Main St, Normanton on Soar, Loughborough LE12 5HB. This month we have Robin Macey talking about his experiences in hot air and gas balloons. A member of Nottingham and Derby...

I hope that you've had a nice break over Christmas and best wishes for 2020, here's hoping for less rain and fair winds as the days draw out. The next meeting of the East Midlands LAA Strut will be on Monday the 13th Jan, 7:30 for an 8:00pm start at The Plough, Main St, Normanton on Soar, Loughborou...

Dear All, The November meeting of the East Midlands LAA Strut will be held on Monday 11th November, 7:30 for an 8:00pm start.  As you'll have seen, electric flight is becoming more and more prominent in the aeronautical press.  Our speaker for the November meeting will be Dr Mark Taylor who will be ...

I've rebuilt a Revmaster 2100D for my Nicollier Menestrel 2 which is inhibited and sitting under a dust sheet but will need running in when the time comes so will be interested in following this thread.

Tony

The next meeting of the East Midlands LAA Strut will be held on the 14th October 2019, 7:30 for 8:00pm at The Plough, Main St, Normanton on Soar, Loughborough LE12 5HB. Our speaker will be Ron Scarfe talking about his experiences at De Havilland (later Rolls-Royce) in the 1950's and 60's. Ron worked...

The next meeting of the East Midlands LAA Strut is on the 9th September, 7:30 for 8:00pm at The Plough, Main St, Normanton on Soar, Loughborough LE12 5HB. Our speaker will be Steve Slater, LAA CEO, talking about 'Airymouse', a Currie Wot or "a small biplane of insignificant horsepower" that was once...

The next meeting of the East Midlands LAA Strut will be on 12th August, 7:30 for 8:00pm at The Plough, Main St, Normanton on Soar, Loughborough LE12 5HB. This months talk is by Martin Jones on the engineering aspects of the De Havilland DH88 Comet Racer restoration, with a look at the flying charact...

The next meeting of the East Midlands LAA Strut will be held at 7:30-8:00pm on Monday 8th July at The Plough, Main St, Normanton on Soar, Loughborough LE12 5HB. This month, I'll give an update on my Nicollier Menestrel 2 project. The Menestrel 2 is a plans built two seat low wing monoplane primarily...

The next meeting of the East Midlands LAA Strut will be on Monday 10th June, 7:30 for 8:00pm start at The Plough, Main St, Normanton on Soar, Loughborough LE12 5HB. This months talk will be by David Jones on Light Aircraft Avionics, a rapidly moving field particularly with the advent of light weight...

If it is just 2D drawings you are after, I've had good results from Draftsight, the free CAD package from Dassault.

Tony Razzell

The next East Midlands LAA Strut will be at 7:30 for an 8:00pm start on Monday, 13th May at The Plough, Main St, Normanton on Soar, Loughborough, LE12 5HB. It is our AGM this month so do please come along with your ideas for how you would like the Strut to develop and what kind of talks or other eve...

The next East Midlands LAA Strut meeting is on the 8th April, 7:30 for 8:00pm at The Plough, Main Street, Normanton on Soar, Loughborough LE12 5HB. This month we have Colin Hales who set out to circumnavigate the globe in his home-built Rand KR2. To set out on such a quest in a factory built aircraf...

This month's East Midlands LAA Strut meeting is at 7:30pm for 8:00pm start on Monday 11th March, at The Plough, Main Street, Normanton on Soar, LE12 5HB. The speaker is Roger Alton and he will be talking about Nevil Shute Norway, the aeronautical engineer on the R100 airship, founder of Airspeed Avi...