Is there any UK regulation that prohibits me from constructing a microlight from wood?
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You will need to look at the JAR regulations for designing and building this type of aircraft (contact the CAA or a Microlighting association). I believe that there wouldn't be a rfegulation preventing you from using wood (look at the earliest aircraft) but it may not be the best or most practical material to use. Look at the properties of wood (strength and density) and also the fact that it is flammable too.
civil aviation authority (CAA ), but if a certified kit (by them )which will have to be seen (inspected ) by them at each stage of construction, the engine also has to be certified, you missed the boat by twenty years of a free build
No, there probably isn't.
It could not all be of wood, of course. But unless you are going into aircraft design, why bother? There are many kits around, including some of wood.
As to the regulations involved, see www.caa.co.uk, and www.bmaa.org.
May you have good flying weather!
only if you intend to use it after you have finished building it :P
Up to you kaz if you are going for the new category which i think is 115 kg..read about it recently but didn't pay much attention.. just watch for grain runout, knots and any other possible defect in the wood you are using. Bamboo was a favourite in the olden days for main structures.
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