California manufacturer Alef Aeronautics said Tuesday that it began production on its Model A Ultralight—a “drive-and-fly” ...

Ultralights are allowed to reach 14,000 feet in altitude, but can go higher with waivers. There are four major categories of ultralights: Hang glider trikes; fixed-wing, open cockpit planes; powered ...

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 ...

Barnstorming first captured the consciousness of America in the wake of the First World War. Bands of itinerant pilots – many of them ex-Army flyers who managed to buy or otherwise hold on to their ...

Many drivers out there have probably wished they could let their car fly over others to avoid traffic. This seems like it can be a reality as Alef Aeronautics has recently demonstrated in its latest ...

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 ...

They've been called Giant Mosquitoes, Rubber Band Toys, Funny Looking Kites, Deathtraps. But to those who fly - and love - ultralight aircraft, they're also known as freedom and adventure. This ...

More than three years ago, Ron Toran decided to bring his paramotor flight school business, Lone Star Paramotor, to the Northeast Side of San Antonio at the Kitty Hawk Ultralight Flying Field. He ...