Light Aircraft Association

Just a small but important point - was TCT asked to leave the room whilst the in house vote was taken and how many abstentions were there to the motion.

I have a copy of the July/August 1977 beside me, in which, the flight test report by Air Commodore Paul states that - "...........the aircraft continued to fly quite happily, until at 22 knots indicated (yes 22 knots) the nose dropped..............the position error at this angle of attack being 17 ...

I visited the Camit stand at the LAA rally and they have the thermostatic by-pass fitment. The company seem to have got on top of many of the "problems" associated with Jab engines. All major components are roughly half the price of the Jab equivalents.

If you have an air display for say, two hours each afternoon - you could get almost two hundred visiting aircraft in during that session on each day and incoming aircraft would be backing up all over the country. Now, if you include the element of borderline weather in the morning for those days you...

Well, if the LAA start wasting arrivals time again by putting on any form of air display I'll keep away. It's not an air display event (in the air anyway) - and I want to see as much as possible on the ground. If an air display is wanted then go to an air display - there are plenty of them throughou...

I will never be able to afford to fly behind these high powered Lycomings, but I am heartened when I read that an aircraft such as the Davis DA11 featured as an aside to the Davis 2 seater article in the September edition of our mag can hurtle along at an incredible 135mph on an untuned and little m...

Many years ago, in the PFA magazine, someone had a problem with the supply of spruce to the correct grade and length. There was a suggestion that makers of high quality wooden ladders had the material - it was straight grained, satisfied the moisture content limits, was cheaper. After all, they have...

Nic - if you took a few teenagers to a flying event they'd keep bumping into us "wrinklies" as they all have evolved permanently bent necks due to their worship of the iphone !

Weld fusibe inserts make tube root welds a dawdle, if you can get hold of the the correct QA material.

Liquid PTFE.

How heavy is the stuff ?

Mike - these guys are in Wick today on their way home via the Faroes. Give Andy a ring at Far North Aviation and he will pass your message. Its very windy here today (out of the north) so they may be held by the headwind.
That M12 is some beast !

I might be havering but the only contra prop I know that had two engines and props that rotated independent of each other was the Fairey Gannet. Indeed, on could be stopped and feathered in flight.

If its plastic - a great way of generating a bit of static. Horrendously overpriced too - a decimal point in the wrong place I think.

I have ordered a "Jasic" 160amp multi-process welder - it does stick, MIG and TIG. The welder unit, argon gas bottle and regulator came out at £850 inc VAT. You may be able to do a better deal all the same. It comes with a 5 year guarantee.