eightyknots Posted November 6, 2014 Share Posted November 6, 2014 Crazy Peter from Sutherland used to regularly dash up to the fish and chippery in his Onan powered trike. Went like the clappers. A good number of us Forumites may remember the National Geographic article called "The Bird Men" about ultralights in the United States. The people who flew them would land on the road and taxi in to a service station for fuel as they travelled around the country ...but I take it they switched the engines off! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug Evans Posted November 6, 2014 Share Posted November 6, 2014 https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=849017058463693 This one has wings 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ozzie Posted November 7, 2014 Share Posted November 7, 2014 Manta Pterodactyl, took them about a month to fly across the USA and on the way home they called in to the EAA convention and they converted the engine to methanol and completed the trip running on that. That was in the middle of the fuel crises. Some may remember the uproar created by the 60 Minutes beat up story of the US journalist that was killed in one. I never had the chance to fly one but had a few flights in the hang glider version. The Manta Fledgling. Ripper machine. Loved it. They still have a great following in Italy of all places. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oscar Posted November 8, 2014 Share Posted November 8, 2014 Back in 97 at Bundaberg when jabiru were just kicking off they displayed one of the local pilots LSA55 at the shopping town about a klm up the main road from the airport , taxied up the road early with the wings off , set up for the day in the mall .Come 5 pm with an escort at either end proceeded to taxi out though the car park , and wouldn't you know it , traffic from everyware ! Waited for a break and made the dash back to airport drive , You realy have to be tight on the rudders , but could easy handle it at 40 k/h . They have heaps of grunt without the wings on .Stunned motorist , Do it today ? They'd put you in gaol . John Smith ( Alias ) I reckon you'd be able to get away with it today in Bundy if it hid underneath one of those monster cane tractor thingies I've seen rattling along the Isis Highway... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deltacharlie Posted November 12, 2014 Share Posted November 12, 2014 Maybe he thought he had a Helica. http://www.helica.info/emodele.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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