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MiscellaneousHere you will find some articles that are related to ultralight flying and ultralight aviation, but don't fit into any of the existing categories.We aim to provide the full aspect of knowledge about ultralight aircraft and many different points of view. If you want to share something with us, you can have your article or essay published in this category as well. Available articles:Personal Hovercraft - Swim, Drive And Fly Over The GroundWhat I am going to introduce to you now is not exactly an aircraft. It won't let you soar above the mountains. Hovercrafts are not airplanes. But still many ultralight aviation fans are interested in having their personal hovercraft. There are few reasons for that: The enjoyment of...Read 6269 times; read more >> Gyrocopters - What Are They And Can You Have One?The gyrocopters (known also as gyroplanes or autogyros) are quite an unusual kind of aircraft. They look similar to helicopters but by the construction and the way of flying are more similar to the airplanes. This Wikipedia article explains shortly the difference between autogyro and helicopter: "While a helicopter's rotor is...Read 42821 times; read more >> Here Is an Unique Aircraft - The Ground Effect VehicleTo be honest I learned about ground effect vehicles from our reader who posted a comment in the article about personal hovercraft. Up to this point I thought hovercrafts were the strangest kind of aircraft out there. Well, here are very similar and maybe even more interesting developments. So, What...Read 3498 times; read more >> Homemade Hovercraft - You Can Have One TooThere is a lot of information online about homemade hovercraft, tutorials how you can make one and a lot of videos. Unfortunately it's quite unorganized and overloading and if you want to learn how to make a hovercraft yourself you'll have some hard time managing through all of it. In...Read 4373 times; read more >> The Best Gyrocopter Resources Page, Period!There is a huge interest to autogyros from people who visit this site recently. I have written one introductional article about the gyrocopter already but that's far from enough to satisfy the curious minds. Trying to find well structured information about this wonderful aircraft using the search engines can also...Read 3132 times; read more >> 9 Amazing, Cute, Or Just Crazy Personal Helicopters and RotorcraftI don't know about you, but getting stuck in the traffic pulls my nerves. And this doesn't happen often to me: I don't want even to think about people who have to deal with it every day. Well, here are several amazing transportation devices that can solve this problem. Technically...Read 2352 times; read more >> | |
