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My brother and I were in Culowhee NC today, looking at this ultralight. This is a 2 year old Aerolite 103.
40 horse engine, two stroke, made in Germany.




Top speed 75 mph. $19K

That would be a kick!

Braver than me.

I like it. I need one of those parked in TX. I would be a hog killin' machine in that bad boy! I can just see me coming over the treeline on the edge of a 160 acre wheat field, pigs scattering and me dumping mags!

A good friend of mine died in his ultralight, flying back from Montana
https://www.spokesman.com/stories/1996/aug/12/ultralight-aircraft-crashes-killing-pilot/

So did John Denver.

Man, that would be nice for finding big deer in the desert.

1000 ways to die Tv show.

19k to buy # 672?????


Dude...........


LOL!!!!

Now, boys, don't be a Nancy Boy. Ultralights are fun!




Here I am flying my Goldwing ultralight back in Georgia. 32 horse 2 stroke Cayuna snowmobile engine.



Here is my buddy, Jerry Tomlin flying his Goldwing at 2,500 feet above Washington County, Georgia.
I was about 100 feet above Jerry in my Goldwing. I had the camera, dammit. So the best pictures were taken of Jerry, by me.

My friend died in an ultralight. buy a used Cessna

Powered Parachutes...

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Phil

Ultralight, powered parachute, gyro copter, etc. - all easy and all fun - but high potential deadly fun.

This ultralight has a ballistic parachute already installed. You need to practice dead stick landings before you need to make a dead stick landing.

Vaya Con Dios. If forced to fly one I like what you are looking at.

Nice unit! They've evolved a bit since I flew a pair of Eipper Quicksilvers many years ago... Gawd, they were a blast.. Gave 'em up right after my son was born in '91 when I was up over the house at about 2000 feet when the carb froze up.. Hadda dead-stick it onto the yard.. Thought it was time to sell 'em at get out..

Always thought UL's were kinda cute as are many home built aircraft. Thing that makes me uncomfortable with them is who built them and to what construction standards. AND, hell will freeze before I go airborne with a 2 stroke engine. It's easy enough to kill yourself with factory production...

Better have a brass catcher.

Those brass flinging into that rear prop get interesting pretty quick!

I've known several people hurt badly or killed from ultralights. Maybe because they didn't get the required pilot training that small aircraft pilots do?

After getting a private license and quite a few hours on it, I briefly considered an ultralight. Briefly...

There are a couple small airports near me, and I never ever see them anymore. Years ago they were popular.
They still have gliders here. That seems to remain the same.

I wonder what the 'safety record' is with ULs?

I watched a video once......tragic.

The movie, “Secondhand Lions “ comes to mind here.

A Delta Airlines Pilot had one that he loved and flew it at every chance he had. He was flying along the Mississippi River north of New Orleans and was cruising just above ground level over crop fields. As he approached a hedgerow he angled up to go over it and at the top he was met by a crop duster going head-on. The prop-wash from the crop duster blew him down and into the trees.

Didn’t bang him up too bad but after retrieving it and repairing it, he sold it. Cheap.

Like road motorcycles, to each his own.

I helped a friend of mine who was a pilot build one of those in the early 80's. Put a fan cooled snowmobile engine in it. had to call goldwing on how to tune the engine. After flying it for a year we put a reduction on the prop to make it quieter. He had it a couple more years and put it up for sale, I offered to buy it and he said he would not sell it to me because he liked me. Best decision he ever made.