Light Aircraft Association

The next meeting of the East Midlands LAA Strut will be on Monday 9th August, 7:30pm for an 8:00pm start. With The lifting of COVID restrictions, at long last we will be able to meet face to face so I hope to see you in person. For those unable to travel or who might be reluctant to meet up yet, I w...

The next East Midlands LAA Strut meeting will be on the 12th July, 7:45pm for an 8:00pm start. No external speaker this month so I'll be giving you an update on what I've been up to with Perspex over the COVID lockdown. I have an article written for Light Aviation which I'll be sending in shortly to...

The next meeting of the East Midlands LAA Strut will be on Monday 14th June, 7:45 for 8:00pm start. As previously advertised, we'll have a short AGM as part of the governance of the Strut and then have a group discussion about the CAA Change Programme. For the AGM, please consider whether you could ...

The next meeting of the East Midlands LAA Strut will be on Monday 10th May, 7:45pm for an 8:00pm start. This month, we have Guy Inchbald talking about Frank Halford and the Golden Age of British Aviation. You may recall that Frank Halford was the engine designer for De Havillands, and designed the G...

The next meeting of the East Midlands LAA Strut will be on Monday 12th April, 7:45pm for an 8:00pm start. This month we have Jon Roper from Trig Avionics who will be giving us a talk about Electronic Conspicuity (EC). He will describe the CAA scheme to provide subsidies for EC devices which has now ...

The next meeting of the East Midlands LAA Strut will be held on Monday 8th March, 7:45pm for an 8:00pm start. This month, we have Rob Gratton, Airspace Infringements Lead at the CAA who will give us a talk on infringements and how to avoid them. I think this is especially topical as many of us will ...

The next meeting of the East Midlands LAA Strut will be on Monday 8th Feb, 7:45pm for an 8:00pm start. This month, we have the privilege of having Phill O'Dell, Rolls-Royce Director of Flight Operations and former Rolls-Royce Chief Test Pilot, who will give us a talk on Test Flying at Rolls-Royce. A...

The next meeting of the East Midlands LAA Strut will be on Monday 11th Jan at 7:45pm for an 8:00pm kick-off. This month we will be having a quiz which Martin Jones has kindly offered to do - his title is "A Spot of History" which sounds intriguing! Again, as we are all in Tier 4 and pretty much 'loc...

I just had a quick look on the web and found this short video about the installation of a Revflow carb in a Sonex: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBrqV3UYzbo

Tony

I'd be interested in RevFlow carb installations - I am building a Nicollier Menestrel and have a Revmaster R2100D engine and RevFlow carb. A little way off the fuel system installations but any info on fuel pumps and pressure regulators welcome.

The next meeting of the East Midlands LAA Strut will be at 7:45pm on Monday 14th December. This month, we have Paul Hendry-Smith from The Light Aircraft Company who will be giving us an insight into the history of the company, the product range of aircraft and aircraft kits, and the way that they ar...

The next meeting of the East Midlands LAA Strut will be at 7:45pmwith the talk starting at 8:00pm on Monday 9th November. This month we have Anne Hughes and David Collings talking about the rebuilding of the prototype Series 1 Beagle Pup G-AVDF. The aircraft features in this month's Light Aviation w...

The next meeting of the East Midlands LAA Strut will be on Monday the 8th June, 8:00pm via Zoom as we are still unable to meet face to face at The Plough. It will be our AGM at which we will elect officers of the Strut and have a review of the last years activities. If you'd like to stand for the po...

I've had a trial run with Zoom and it works very well. I've sent the invite out by email for this Monday's Strut meeting which we can use to road test Zoom as a group, and I'll give an update on the Menestrel project. If you are not on the email circ list, please message me with your email address a...

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...