We approach the takeoff end of the runway. I go through the preflight checks — ailerons go up and down, rudder moves freely, elevators the same. It’s 7:30 a.m. as we depart St. John’s Airport in ...

Courtesy photo / Ultralight pilot Dean Marcaurelle of Altoona has been flying ultralights for 22 years. Despite the cold, rainy weather, Dean Marcaurelle of Altoona took to the skies Oct. 1, one of ...

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 ...

I had just finished packing my suitcase and refueling my rental car, ready to depart L’Agulhas, a sleepy fishing village built on the soft green hills and limestone rocks of Africa’s southernmost ...

LODA --;In the world of competitive ultralight flight, a rural Loda man soars above the best in the United States. Dan Grunloh has twice won the U.S. ultralight competition. Grunloh, who is 58 and has ...

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 ...

Backpack slope soaring wings deliver a lightweight and portable gliding experience, and in this video we test how an ...

You have to learn to walk before you run – this would work as the guiding principle behind Hexa, a small and ultralight flying car expected to start making short-distance recreational flights this ...

When Nancy Ullmann was golfing with her family at about 5 p.m. Saturday on the eighth hole at Lisbon's Songbird Hills Golf Club, she was struck by how low and loud an aircraft was. The aircraft ...

The installation of a 30-foot wall along a portion of the U.S.-Mexico border in southeastern California may be pushing human smugglers to find new ways to get people from Mexico into the U.S. who do ...