Over the years, ultralight backpacking has garnered an unfortunate reputation: obsessive, elitist, unsafe, prohibitively expensive. While we could debate the first three (obsessive is the only one I’d ...

Ultralight pilot community claims discrimination as Yuba County Airport relents on its ban of the lightweight flying machines.

Flying an ultralight aircraft offers an “amazing” view at a fraction of the cost of getting a pilot’s license, but there are some risks involved, according to a Connecticut man who helped to first ...