I miss Charles Ligetti! He had personality with a capital P.
He used to fly the Stratos a lot round Riddells Creek and Penfield Sunbury.
We had a lot in common. I was flying a very early 2 seat trike, the 2nd or 3rd made by Ricky Duncan of Airborne Windsports.
It came over the fence at maybe 30 knots.
And Charles had one of the quickest, if not THE quickest ultralights around.
Both were white!
His death was a massive loss to Australia.
My only recall of the incident was a prototype with less dihedral - a bit quicker - testing the stall or stalling at a level too low for recovery.
We tended to blame the department for such incidents because of the ridiculous regulations we had to fly with (or ignore) at the time - including height.
(Not the fault of the real working people at DoA - just their dickhead masters)
My apologies if I got the incident wrong.
There was a lot of gossip about the safety of the aircraft, but, it flew fine on all the days and weeks we flew together.
It's 2011 and I did a search for Charles Ligetti.
Take that as a complement Charles!
I'm sure you would have been popping ultralights into orbit by now, had your (and our) luck held.