I stumbled upon this old article I wrote for a knife magazine, relating a little adventure I had towing an advertising banner with an ultralight airplane.
My instructor, Gerard Landri always said that it wasn’t a matter of “if” your engine would quit one day, but “when.” So, you had to be prepared and have a landing field in mind at all times when flying. Ultralights, because of weight restrictions often use two-cylinder, two-stroke engines for propulsion. Rotax is the main [...]
George Orwell was right, just off about thirty years. The United Kingdom, and other European countries have started a dangerous trend of spying on their citizens, creating draconian gun laws, recording phone traffic, emails and text messages in databases, and installing a staggering 4.2million CCTV cameras. Been to London? You were caught on camera about [...]
I was 21 back then. The aircraft is an Airland, powered by a re-bored (2.2l) VW Bug engine.
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