UK-based ProAirsport has developed a hybrid microlight/glider with electrically powered wheels used for taxiing and takeoff, and a jet turbine for climbing and cruising. During flight, the engine can ...

Next January, a squadron of disabled British servicemembers is scheduled to fly to the South Pole in up to five open-cockpit microlights to show what severely disabled people can achieve and inspire ...

RECORD-BREAKING paraplegic microlight pilot Dave Sykes has returned to his North Yorkshire airfield to receive a hero’s welcome from his friends and colleagues. Dave set off from York’s Rufforth ...

A FORMER soldier from New Milton is leading a team of wounded former service personnel on an epic tour of the UK coastline by microlight. Captain Luke Sinnott lost both his legs to an improvised ...

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BENGALURU: Owners of small aircraft in Bengaluru are reeling with their two-seater microlight aircraft or powered hang-gliders grounded this financial year as they have been denied airworthiness ...

How do you teach a bird how, and where, to fly? The distinctive northern bald ibis, hunted essentially to extinction by the 17th century, was revived by breeding and rewilding efforts over the last ...