Ultralight aircraft offer an accessible entry into aviation for beginners, often requiring no pilot's license or extensive training. These aircraft must adhere to strict FAA Part 103 regulations, ...

Read Davin Coburn's flying blog and listen to him discuss his adventure. Listen to Davin Coburn adventure as he describes it on the Popular Mechanics Show (podcast). We're off the ground early, seven ...

Ultralights are allowed to reach 14,000 feet in altitude, but can go higher with waivers. There are four major categories of ultralights: Hang glider trikes; fixed-wing, open cockpit planes; powered ...

The small airplane falls sideways through the air. Its fabric-covered wings akimbo to the line it's following, like if someone where walking with one hip thrust awkwardly forward. To the uneducated ...

Russia’s Siberian Research Institute for Aviation (SibNIA) has performed the first test flight of Partizan, its ultra short-takeoff-and-landing (STOL) transport aircraft demonstrator. The aircraft ...