Wild aircraft are the hallmark of AirVenture, the world’s largest get-together for pilots, which starts today in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. The Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) airshow last year ...
Just Aircraft is developing the "Just 103," a new single-seat Part 103 Ultralight aircraft, expected to launch at EAA AirVenture in late July and be available as a kit or complete aircraft later this ...
They fly low and slow over the border, their wings painted black and motors humming faintly under moonlit skies. The pilots, some armed in the open cockpits, steer the horizontal control bar with one ...
Ultralight pilot community claims discrimination as Yuba County Airport relents on its ban of the lightweight flying machines ...
Humans have been dreaming of personal flight for as long as we’ve watched birds soar overhead. In 1917 — just 31 years after the invention of the automobile — American journalist C.H. Claudy imagined ...
A startup created by Matt Chasen, the founder of the uShip online shipping marketplace, aims to sell rides on electric-powered aircraft that are so simple to operate that tourists can take them out ...
November 23, 2004 The CT2K ultralight sports aircraft is so compact it almost looks like a toy. Yet with only a 9.3m wingspan, 2.16m height, 6.22m width and 262kg (empty) weight, it can travel over ...
[Peter Sripol] is something of a legend in the DIY RC aircraft crowd. He’s friends with Flite Test, and there he built an enormous RC cargo plane that could easily carry a small child aloft. Now, ...
Flying an ultralight aircraft doesn’t require a pilot’s license, registration or — in Illinois, anyway — the use of a restricted landing area. Despite this liberal policy, flying is flying, and it’s ...