LAA Rally 2014, 29th - 31st August

Grass Strip Aviation Ltd, will be attending the LAA Rally again this year showing support for the rally, and if all goes to plan you'll find us on stands 12/13.  We look forward to meeting in person with those who have already inquired about various kits and anybody else that might find our aircraft of interest.  Lets hope the weather plays its part in making this a fabulous weekend.

Popham 2014 Update

It was the first time in my experience that we had good weather on both days, and attendance was high with a few camping over on Saturday evening.  G-GSAL was sporting a new Hercules propeller with a none authentic colour scheme, but everyone seemed to like it.

Saturday, Mike Clark flew in his fine example of a GSAL Fokker Eindecker for the our stand, and was there to answer questions for any potential builders.

 

Mike's aircraft is powered by a 50 hp Hirth F23 with belt reduction drive, it also has a Hercules Propeller, which is the only type that GSAL recommend.  At the end of the day Mike performed a few flypasts before setting of for home, we managed to capture a very short clip on the mobile phone.  Many thanks to Mike for his support.


GSAL, invited Hercules Propellers, proprietor, Rupert Wasey to our stand for the weekend.  Rupert flew in his award winning Flitzer biplane while we carried his lovely Bell tent by road.  We had invited Rupert to get a feel for the Microlight scene, promote his products and provide technical expertise on propellers.

On Sunday Steve Duckworth flew in his lovely GSAL Fokker Eindecker for our stand, his aircraft was featured in the September 2013 MF magazine, and has the same MZ201 / Hercules Propeller combination as G-GSAL (prototype).  Steve was also on hand to answer questions about the build process.

Preparing to leave for home, Many thanks to Steve for his support.

GSAL also had the prototype MDS 30 V-Twin on the stand, sporting a Hercules Propeller on loan for the show, many thanks to Rupert Wasey for his support.

 

We are currently working on the development of the V-Twin and should be posting updates shortly once we have some solid performance data.

It was a very good weekend with many traders showing new or updated products, and there was certainly a feel that the good days are coming back, lets hope so..!!

Popham Microlight Trade Show 2014

GSAL will be at Popham Microlight Trade Show from the 3 - 4th of May, come and see our Fokker Eindecker replica, and find out about the aircraft kits available under the new SSDR rules. 

Yes the first microlight show of the year and the one we all look forward too, whatever the weather it's a great event to see new products in microlight aviation with many traders presenting their wares.

See you there...!!!

Dream Classic Kit Delivery

The GSAL team deliver Dream Classic kit GS-201 to Mike & Chris, here we see them checking through the inventory as we bring in the kit.

 

Chris signs the relevant paperwork, you can see the glee on Mikes face, he can't wait to get started on their new project.

Mike finishes the handover process with his signature and the Dream Classic kit is theirs. 

As a thank you for purchasing one of our kits, the GSAL team present Mike & Chris with a bottle of Champagne to drink after the maiden flight.

We will be monitoring their build closely and posting images on the blog, GSAL have designed a wing-fold system for the Dream Classic, which will also be a standard feature on our upcoming Dream Demoiselle.

E102 Passes the 100 hrs

E102, the first Eindecker kit sold in the UK has now passed the 100 hour mark.

Ian Brewster, who built the aircraft on a strict budget used a Fuji Robin 330 for the power plant with great success, see below:

 
During the build, Ian also incorporated some of his own design changes after consulting GSAL, this aircraft was always intended to be experimental and the sub 115 kg  SSDR category was perfect for this.

Now with the CAA's proposed changes to SSDR there will be even greater scope to build not only interesting aircraft but ones that will have a larger weather window for flight.

E104 Clocks up 63 hrs

Mike Clark, has clocked up 63 hours with E104 in 200 sorties, he clearly still enjoys flying his Eindecker.

Mike sent in a couple of images that look eerily like they were taken during 1915!

E105 Air to Air

Nice air to air shots of Steve flying Eindecker E105 on a lovely sunny evening.

Steve has designed a map holder for the Eindecker which allows him to keep one hand on the control stick at all times.