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What if there was a way to fulfill your dreams of taking to the skies behind the controls of an aircraft without the certificate? It turns out, through some clever engineering and extensive testing, a ...

When John Deaton soars 500 feet above the ground among migrating birds in his Sunseeker ultralight aircraft, he feels free. "This is about as close to real flying as you can get," he said. Deaton was ...

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 ...

For a price of a luxury electric car, you can now buy a personal electric plane that can take you to as high as 1,500 meters (4,921 feet) in the sky without a pilot license. The Swedish startup Jetson ...

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 ...

Flying an ultralight aircraft offers an “amazing” view at a fraction of the cost of getting a pilot’s license, but there are some risks involved, according to a Connecticut man who helped to first ...

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