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UL,s kinda bring this to mind.
JMO....

LOL!!!!

Put some smoke grenades on the back, it will be badass

Enjoy men, I'm chicken.

I work with a guy whose old man developed the " Breezey " after he came back from the Korean War. CM tube construction, open fuselage, fabric wing, high pusher power-plant, just like the OP's UL pic....noting in front of you but rudder pedals and a half-wheel. Would be a pig killing machine!

I would build one of those before buying an UL, but that's just me. At 6'1" and 230, I can't just strap anything on...

Years ago I got a ride in a 2 seater ... low and slow over the property surrounding the farm house I was renting..... After landing the first thing I did was buy a pair of chest waders to get into the flooded timber section of the property..... deer sigh everywhere. Saw some beautiful bucks back there. Had to move away before the following season..... would have done all my hunting in chest waders if I had stayed.....

Looks tippy

Back in the early 80s I flew one. I was a Flight Instructor and this guy set up 'shop' at the airport trying to sell them.

The model was a hummingbird or something, twin engine.

It did have a 'conventional' tail, or I would not have flown it, not into that weight shift thing for steering....

Aileron control was um, er, ponderous..... sort of a wing warping thing.

Anyway I flew it, twice, had an engine failure on both flights............. it would NOT fly on one engine.

I'm done................ I'll take an airplane built by people that build airplanes, thank you very much!

Back in the early 70's I was skydiving, last jump of the day I had landed, gathered up my gear and was walking back to the field office. The plane I had just jumped out of had pulled in and shut down and the pilot was in the office when its right landing gear snapped, right there sitting on the ground.

Phil

I break chairs....there's no way I would get in that thing and leave the Earth.

Momma didn't raise no fools.......................what lived anyways.

I'm still alive................what's that tell you?

I’d love to fly one, (with a windshield). What I’d realLy like is an old J-3 Cub.
I’ve scoured through the homebuilt catalogues until the pages were worn out.
All the Bede-5 fatalities make the high performance models a bit scary.
I love flying.

Of all the Ultralights I've seen the Challenger 2 is the one I find most intriguing. Seats 2,plus capabilities for floats and ski's.

It's a toss up as to which I had the most fun in..... A Super Cub or the Great Lakes Bi-Plane.............

I had a second cousin who was taking off and did not clear the tree line. His family had a run of tragedies. They may be fun, but have your insurance paid up.

My father had a J-# when I was a very small child. I can still remember riding in the back seat, old, beat-up brown leather upholstery, watching the rear stick going back and forth....I loved going flying with my dad. When my brother was born it was the end of the airplane.

general aviation has been priced out of reach of regular, middle class folks. my grandpa bought and flew a Piper Cub on a working class gov't worker salary (machinist).

not happening today, take a look at these used cubs:
http://cubcrafters.com/c/inventory/

And we still don't have a flying car in every garage like we were promised in 1946...

esperanto! a punch line all by itself.

Things didn't turn out quite the way they planned, did they?

When I was a kid, Dad and I stopped by for a visit with one of his buddies from work. The guy had built a gyro-copter in his garage, As I recall, it had a VW engine. He never got up the courage to fly it!

Take a look at the Highlander by Just Aircraft.
A much better way to go imho.
They are located in Walhalla, South Carolina