One of the reasons for the warping may not be the heat, but rather that the original repair simply joins the skins together. If possible, I’d also have a look at the feasibility of fitting a much thicker plate across the cut spar webs… By putting the stress back into the spar, where it was supposed to be when the wing was whole, you should end up with a much stronger repair… I appreciate that this may be outside of the realms of possibility…

Why will buying your dairy products locally negate (for you) any increase in dairy product prices? Why will the local prices not have gone up, too? Perhaps I am losing the plot, or have had two or three glasses of wine too many…..!

For the moment, the cull only extends to Somerset and South Wales. I live in the lost wilderness of the North East – we don’t have an issue with wildlife, and so long as we choose our products carefully, cost increases are negated or reduced in comparison to the more commercially sensitive south.

Despite living in the countryside for 15 years, I have never even seen a badger. In fact there was a time about 20 years ago where you could count on one hand the number of badger sets in a 50 square mile area from Teesdale to Tynedale and into Northumberland… Whilst there has been an increase in Bovine TB in the south, there doesn’t appear to be a similar increase in the north of the country despite badger populations increasing country-wide…

70% (minimum) of the Badger population is NOT worth a 15% (maximum) drop in Bovine TB over 9 years! Wait until something better is developed, such as this vaccine which has been mentioned. Aww, the farmers are upset because they loose money? Tuff. I’ll just stop buying beef when the price goes up to cover a couple of herd re-stocks. Increasing the cost of dairy produce?…. I’ll buy locally. The government are using the recovering Badger population as a scapegoat for their lack of investment in the development of a proper cure for a disease which threatens our food stocks. Pitiful and petty politics + rampant capitalism = dead species.

serious-ish. There is a distinct lack of evidence suggesting that Bovine TB is caused in the majority of cases by Badgers, ergo the reason for the cull must be political.

….. Every night they invade my garden, dig up the lawn, demolish the compost bins and dig into my chicken run and when I came home late last night I must have seen at least six in the lane leading to home.
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Sounds like you have a problem – the local wildlife seems to have a productive set close to your home… causing you untold misery.

… on the other hand, your home is within the natural territory of the indigenous population which allows them to scavenge the waste deposited in your garden. Perhaps you should move your home..

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In all seriousness, this does seem to smack of political agenda – stop fox hunting and start badger hunting – happy country-toff voters.

A back up system is generally a simple fail safe in case the main system fails. If the backup can be switched off, then it is no longer any use!

There is nothing wrong with taking your i-pad (other GPS apps may be available…) in the cockpit with you, but EASA / FAA / CASA etc, are not going to allow you to fly a commercial airliner basing its emergency procedures on a system which is not internal to the aircraft…. Manufacturers are not going to fit an internal GPS when EASA et al won’t certify it because it is under an individual’s control… particularly when that individual is US Military….

EDIT: Apparently using GPS in EASA regulated aircraft is perfectly safe! (Something to do with EggNog or something…) It seems to be limited to lateral guidance only. http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/policies/satnav/egnos/files/safety-information-bulletin-easa_en.pdf

So to recap…. US Military GPS (what your I-pad uses) can’t be used, BUT you can use EASA Eggnog with EASA regulated aircraft. No doubt they’ll charge a fortune to fit it, which most airlines won’t do…..

Kill the farmers and the cows and let the wildlife look after itself…

Hope it helps.