Light Aircraft Association

Why are you using a sealant ? If you are using perfectly good fittings, they don’t need sealant, especially the 592 stuff - getting the fittings apart again, if required, will be a problem. Introducing any form of contaminant to fuel lines - you know what happens !

When I clicked on “Hangar Chat” this morning and saw that Nigel Hitchman had posted I thought, here goes, we are all going to get torn up for arsepaper and a few “horrorscopes” read over this subject. But no, I found it to be a good down to earth appraisal of the issues. The conduct and integrity of...

One more question - since TCT has been seen in “photoshoots”, is cited in the press as a “friend” of HRH Prince Michael of Kent and that he is the Patron of our Association, has he at any time had influence or requested possible reinstatement ?

Can we go back a little bit. I was of the belief that the awards committee did not know of the full story regarding the flight in question. However, I see in Hopkins’s input of Wednesday evening (para 5) states that they knew of the GPS aids and of the team effort or am I reading it wrong ?. Did the...

TCT - please, for my sanity, attend the AGM, put yourself into the lion’s den and give a full and true account of the whole team effort. Only then will things calm down. And to prove that I’m not missogy.....migso.....sod it, a woman hater. If I hear for one moment that Neil Armstrong didn’t walk on...

dmole - if board proceedings are confidential, how (from her supporting statement) did TCT come to know that the original motion was libellous, requiring the redraft ? Harry, with all due respect, I take it from your post that you have surrendered you position on the Awards Group. “bile” is a word u...

andymac53 - I admire your stamina !

Chris - I fill in my logbook as P1for all flights if Ihave control. P2 if the “passenger” takes contro and only if qualified to do so. “Alone in an open cockpit” is true by the way - there is no room in the Stearman aft position for two pilots. There is another for’d cockpit however from which to ta...

I am stuck in a quandary - was the trophy REALLY awarded for a “feat of navigation, aviation, tenacity and endurance” ? Was it an easy decision - who else was considered for it, or was it a case of putting forward the eventual winner to gild the trophies listing a bit ? The trophy that we all seem t...

Mike - you say she blames the publicity team for the “solo” flight. We have heard time and time again from herself that she made the “solo” flight. There are other words - alone, open cockpit, my Stearman, instruments etc etc. It’s getting out of hand so much I need to pass a motion of another kind !!

Is TCT getting the ballot papers to count ?

It would be cheaper to get something from Norway than to get a Europa club trailer to Shetland !! Indeed, a farmer or someone with a low loader will help you out. I take it that you are not a native of Shetland and you have bought "remotely". The vendor ought to put you in touch with a friendly help...

Aye, the plans are safe and dry. All the drawings, bulkheads, wing ribs etc are full size. Fuselage framework bulkheads are in 5mm plywood. There are no fabric coverings. The only thing I would like to have changed tho' is the u/c which looked a pigs ear to manufacture - better a modern sprung struc...

Without doubt there are scores of projects abandoned or in partial stages of build throughout the UK. When I joined the PFA in 1976 (when the mag was two monthly) there were at least 30 "New Projects" listed in every issue. Most of them in those days were plans build. Now, it would be a fair bet tha...

There is an outstanding Fred (number 22 in the list of registrations) that won the best plans built aircraft at the LAA rally a couple of years ago. A great deal of effort had obviously gone into the engine cowling on that particular aircraft as most look hideous. The builder also won best plans bui...