In this month’s edition:

• Farnborough New Airspace Implemented 27th February
• Visit from Border Force
• Jetman Now Does VTOL!
• Down on the farm – Tony Palmer
• Brighton City Airport Leap Year Fly In Feb 29th
• RIP Mad Mike Hughes

Farnborough New Airspace Implemented 27th February

The Airspace Safety Initiative (a joint CAA, NATS, AOA, GA and MoD initiative) has published guidance to the new Farnborough airspace coming into effect on 27th February 2020.

Guide to the Farnborough airspace download as a pdf: airspacesafety.com/infringement/farnborough_cas_a4/

And as a ‘quick reminder card’: airspacesafety.com/infringement/farnborough_cas_a5/

Also guidance around the Solent CTA-3 and CTA-5 airspace infringement ‘hot spot’ here: airspacesafety.com/updates

Visit from Border Force

At the Strut meeting on 5th February 2020, we had a talk from the Border Force GA unit’s Steve Windsor, Andrew Lane and Phil Skidmore.

Jetman Now Does VTOL!

Down on the farm 22 This month 2.20

Klemm L25C G-ACXE,

The inlet duct has been finished up to the paint stage, see pic below.

The next major unit to do was the exhaust system. We got the two half round headers pre-fabricated by a guy over our way about eight months ago and we also had 15 off 60⁰ pulled bends with tails made at Pipecraft.

Being a seven cylinder radial, three cylinders discharge into each ring header and one of the bottom cylinders is ducted into the left header. This means that the headers would have asymmetrical internal pressures, so looking at the second photo you will see that the exhaust is coupled to the inlet casting, the other side is the same.

This will allow the pressures in both headers to equalize and there will be flow from left to right of approximately half of one cylinders output.  The waste heat from this half flow will be absorbed into the casting and into heating the inlet charge. This was necessary in the late 1920’s as the fuel was very poor and did not vaporise as it does with modern fuels.

Tony Palmer