by Dan Johnson | Jun 14, 2024 | Easy Flight, I-TEC, Maverick, Pitman Air LLC (Florida), SkyKicker Aviation, Splog
If I’ve heard one lament repeatedly over a long career, it is that current pilots don’t see enough new pilots coming into aviation. Are you one who worries a little or a lot about that? If not, you are a rare pilot. Is it any wonder, though? The price of aircraft is...
by Marc Cook | Jun 11, 2024 | Splog
Light Sport enthusiasts who appreciate light, simple, inexpensive airplanes have been watching Sonex Aircraft develop the High Wing model for a couple of years now. It’ll first come out as an Experimental/Amateur-Built version but the company is very much open to...
by Jon Croke | Jun 8, 2024 | Affordaplane, Splog, Ultralight
In a previous post, introduced our video project for building the Affordaplane. To review, this is the plans-only project I demonstrated on YouTube for building an ultralight from raw materials. (You’ll find this free 50-part series here.) My objective was to build...
by Dan Johnson | Jun 5, 2024 | Aero Adventure, Inc., Aventura II, Aventura SLSA, LSA Seaplane, Splog
Here’s the backdrop of today’s update on the LSA seaplane sector as summer approaches. According to Law360, an online legal news source, “Light-Sport Aircraft manufacturer Icon Aircraft filed for Chapter 11 protection in Delaware bankruptcy court with more than $170...
by Marc Cook | Jun 5, 2024 | aeromarine, Aeromarine-LSA, Splog, truelite
In our original post, we linked to video of the TrueLite performing taxi tests. Now it’s done better: flying! See the new video below. Those of us looking for pure flying in lightweight form can’t help but be intrigued by the TrueLite ultralight, marketed here by...
by Marc Cook | Jun 2, 2024 | Splog
Untethered prognostication is what you do waiting for the rain showers to blow through and the sun to reemerge on your long cross country. Me? I sorta do it for a living. (Such as that is.) And I get to do it often enough in front of people who work deep in the...
