diff --git a/radio/src/opentx.cpp b/radio/src/opentx.cpp
index 5b7fe65d0..d51037830 100644
--- a/radio/src/opentx.cpp
+++ b/radio/src/opentx.cpp
@@ -2483,7 +2483,18 @@ void opentxInit(OPENTX_INIT_ARGS)
     // g_model.topbarData is still zero here (because it was not yet read from SDCARD),
     // but we only remember the pointer to in in constructor.
     // The storageReadAll() needs topbar object, so it must be created here
+#if __clang__
+// clang does not like this at all, turn into a warning so that -Werror does not stop here
+// taking address of packed member 'topbarData' of class or structure 'ModelData' may result in an unaligned pointer value [-Werror,-Waddress-of-packed-member]
+#pragma clang diagnostic push
+#pragma clang diagnostic warning "-Waddress-of-packed-member"
+#endif
     topbar = new Topbar(&g_model.topbarData);
+#if __clang__
+// Restore warnings
+#pragma clang diagnostic pop
+#endif
+
     // lua widget state must also be prepared before the call to storageReadAll()
     LUA_INIT_THEMES_AND_WIDGETS();
   }
diff --git a/radio/src/storage/sdcard_raw.cpp b/radio/src/storage/sdcard_raw.cpp
index c6636cd58..ac5b70de2 100644
--- a/radio/src/storage/sdcard_raw.cpp
+++ b/radio/src/storage/sdcard_raw.cpp
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ const char * writeFile(const char * filename, const uint8_t * data, uint16_t siz
   TRACE("writeFile(%s)", filename);
   
   FIL file;
-  char buf[8];
+  unsigned char buf[8];
   UINT written;
 
   FRESULT result = f_open(&file, filename, FA_CREATE_ALWAYS | FA_WRITE);
diff --git a/radio/src/telemetry/mavlink.h b/radio/src/telemetry/mavlink.h
index 7eb80b070..40540ecb6 100644
--- a/radio/src/telemetry/mavlink.h
+++ b/radio/src/telemetry/mavlink.h
@@ -48,7 +48,16 @@ extern void SERIAL_send_uart_bytes(const uint8_t * buf, uint16_t len);
 #define MAVLINK_END_UART_SEND(chan,len) SERIAL_end_uart_send()
 #define MAVLINK_SEND_UART_BYTES(chan,buf,len) SERIAL_send_uart_bytes(buf,len)
 
+#if __clang__
+// clang does not like packed member access at all. Since mavlink is a 3rd party library, ignore the errors
+#pragma clang diagnostic push
+#pragma clang diagnostic ignored "-Waddress-of-packed-member"
+#endif
 #include "GCS_MAVLink/include_v1.0/ardupilotmega/mavlink.h"
+#if __clang__
+// Restore warnings about packed member access
+#pragma clang diagnostic pop
+#endif
 
 //#define MAVLINK_PARAMS
 //#define DUMP_RX_TX