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Great, thank you. I was envisioning a system like a small electric truck (as you see in airports) with a camera on an extendable pole, which the operator drives between gates, and then sits in with the screen in front of him/her. Yes, clearly there are the handheld ones, as you see in all the chinese news broadcasts, but none here!

I find this low level of sp reaction amazing, given the need for this, in fact necessity, and the size of the market. The trials were successful, and now going deeper.

Topped up.

Aren't you gone yet?! :)

Question: is the division of responsibilities likely to slow this down? I've been very surprised that it has not been happening in some form or other at UK airports since January, and I'm wondering if the different stakeholders have been trying to pass the buck. To me common sense would say the actual airport authorities should supply this, but I know nothing of how airports work. Any thoughts?

And does anyone know how mobile these scanners are? Could they be moved gate to gate?

Thanks for the welcome. What a discussion! I'm in though on the same basis as antelope - more positive enthusiasm than anything else. :)

I've followed you over, enteleon, and plan to buy tomorrow. Yes, looks very good, and I've been looking for something in this arena for a while. Just missed one in Australia: looked at it one day, and it was up 80% the next! My only worry is that if there is a major hiccough in the economy as reality hits after lockdown eases then this may get hit too. Mainly I've tried to steer clear of shares in the more 'normal' economy recently. But the driver behind lithium seems very strong.

Really enjoyed your Newton v Guy story on Avacta! Poor Guy: guilt-tripped into building a hospital! :)) However much good has come of it.

.... until the cat dies of starvation.

It's a bit addictive, isn't it? Or a lot addictive. You invest some money. You appear to make some money - fast. You invest some more money, you make some more money - still fast.....

You can't stop....

Whatever anyone says....

£3: 20th August.

Charity Mary's Meals. :))

Thanks, TAF!

I'm learning through bitter experiences - one of which was the need to have Primary Bid on the phone..... :((

I'm no expert at these things. Previously bought a small holding at around 1p largely (if I remember right) on the basis that (a) it has good products with a large market that are clearly in demand, and (b) post Woodford debacle it had fallen so far, and yet the guy can't have produced such great returns for so many years by knowing nothing at all, and they still were holding onto some, and (c) losses were getting progressively smaller. Oh, and (d), when it dropped briefly below 1p the gannets rushed in very quickly.

I reckon the reason the SP stayed as low as it was was the concern over finance.

Then this thingy happened and my investment that had been up to 1.75 was down to 0.39. Small holding originally, so now virtually worthless: buy more or throw it away.

Tried to look at it as a new investment... the big worry, the short term financing is out of the way. That's why I don't think it's fallen further in spite of the new shares coming onto the market. It still has great products, in demand, increasing sales, and with a great future - and now with much more secure finance, within which it may break through to profit. Most ii's will still not have large holdings relative to what they hold elsewhere, so I'm not sure they will sell on making a profit: perhaps only some pi's. The ii's will hold for the long term, and judging by this board so will most pi's. So I wasn't sure it would fall further, and didn't want to miss the chance. Trying to time the bottom is a mug's game.

Bought in at 0.39 yesterday. Relieved to see it up to 0.45 so far today!

This puts me up 31%. Bought autumn/winter 2018. I think at the time you were calling it "The safest share on AIM", Rivaldo.

That's not bad in 18 months for the safest share on AIM. :))

"Gama Aviation, the global business aviation service provider, has been awarded a contract by the Home Office to complete Transmitting Portable Electronic Devices ("TPED") testing on several Emergency Services aircraft in-line with its delivery of the new Emergency Services Network (ESN).

ESN is the next generation of critical communications for the three Emergency Services and other user organisations, and an element of ESN is the development of a 4G LTE Air to Ground (A2G) network and Aircraft Communication System (ACS). "

Good to see them ploughing on and getting involved with supplying specialist services to the government.

Meantime friends tell me that to get commercial flights - for instance to long distance to China - is incredibly expensive. That defies logic to me, but gives GMAA all the more of a competitive edge as people who need to travel eye the A to B process very nervously. Going private, perhaps joining together to fill a plane, becomes a better and better option. It may even be cheaper.

Can anyone explain what is a preclinical model, please? As in "It has demonstrated strong and significant efficacy in industry standard preclinical models of steroid-resistant severe asthma."

It’s a simple choice: are we gamblers or investors?

I would like to think I am an investor, I bought in here last year for an average of 15p because of other reasons than the virus. Quite apart from the virus it is a share with good prospects, and hopefully improving life for us a lot of people. However for me even just to stay in here today was a kind of gambling. Probably true investors would take the money and be grateful? Investor’s will still be grateful for a wonderful 32 percent rise today. That’s great. But if we gamble - and it’s fair enough to be a gambler, it’s our money – just by jumping on a fast moving share hoping to cash out at the top then we have to accept the risks.

Think we all learn the hard way. Easy to say "I got out" or whatever. One thing I would say is not to listen to people on these boards who don't justify what they say. It's hard on a day like today: 1,000 plus enthusiastic posts. Someone's been pointing out the names to listen to - thank you, whoever that was. It's not that the others are rubbish, but we all get carried away. ATB everyone.

I get why you're all holding, but I bought this last year and am very well up: just taken my stake money out.

Now it's a free ride - peace of mind - lovely!

They're not making any money out of it, it's pro bono, but first it's great that they do it anyway, and second it's great advertising. Think of all those top people going back to their post Covid situations and admin chaos thinking 'that really worked'. :)

Don't expect it costs them all that much anyway.

Thanks for highlighting this Rivaldo. I have topped up strongly this morning. As far as I can decipher the water division is actually their largest source of revenue, and China is the major part of that, and I think as you said that they wouldn't make this move unless they saw a good future, and above all I think the scale of the market they have got themselves into there is enormous. Longer term it will not just be China either.

This may be a slow burner, but those can be the best. It will probably fall when as I expect the scale of the economic damage from Covid-19 becomes apparent, but if I don't do it now I'll forget or not have the money later, and in the long term I expect this to be good.

It's highlighting for me that worldwide water scarcity and management is going to become a huge issue, really huge. One of my earliest individual share buys was Tristel, who make top of the range disinfectant, simply because having worked in the health service I knew what a huge problem multi-resistant infection was becoming: a long term problem. You know it as I see you're in Byotrol. It's been very kind to me. This is just as big an issue imho, or even more. Any thoughts who else might be entering this space??

Very interesting. Water is perhaps China's biggest problem - and it has some very big problems. Beijing is kept afloat/hydrated through a 900 mile water diversion project: "The South-to-North Water Diversion Project—to give the structure its proper name—is the most expensive infrastructure enterprise in the world. It is the largest transfer of water between river basins in history, and China’s main response to its worst environmental threat, which is (despite all the pollution) lack of water." But the whole of the north of China, including agriculturally important areas, is very short of water.

The Economist, as ever, is brilliant on this, and well worth a read: https://www.economist.com/china/2018/04/05/china-has-built-the-worlds-largest-water-diversion-project

The figures are vast: "The two working stretches can divert 25bn tonnes of water annually from south to north. So far these have cost, according to the project’s first director, Zhang Jiyao, 300bn yuan ($48bn)—more than twice their initial budget." But they are aware it is only a stopgap and they have to conserve and use water better so MTI's involvement is in probably the largest water conservation market in the world by far [guessing]. And if anyone has successful experience in this, it is the Israelis.