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Hang Loose

by | Oct 4, 2024 | aviation history, EAA, EAA member, History, Member Stories, Ultralight

By David Smith, EAA 1298935, and Ronald Smith This piece originally ran in the August 2024 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. Following much reporting on the Hang Loose hang glider in various media through the fall of 1970 and into 1971, Jack Lambie came back to...

Oil in Strange Places

by | Aug 8, 2024 | EAA, EAA member, Member Stories, Ultralight, Ultralights

By Kenneth Florence, EAA 1509968 This piece originally ran in the June 2024 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. In March 2024, I purchased a fine example of a Leonard Milholland-designed Legal Eagle XL. Three weeks earlier, I had bought the plans for the airplane...

The Thinker

by | Jul 6, 2024 | EAA, EAA member, Member Stories, Ultralight, Ultralights

By George Karamitis, EAA 144192 This piece originally ran in the May 2024 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. Every once in a while, someone will ask me, “George, when are you going to learn how to fly a real airplane?” I usually do not respond to that question....

Building the Affordaplane, Part 2

by | 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...

So, You Want to Build An Ultralight?

by | May 23, 2024 | experimental, Splog, Ultralight

Ever consider what it might be like building an ultralight? But first, how do ultralights fit into the arena of “regular” Experimental airplanes like the ones featured in KITPLANES Magazine and other Light Sport Aircraft found on this website? For those not familiar...