A daredevil microlight pilot on a solo charity flight to Australia has been killed on the the first leg of the epic journey. Martin Bromage, 49, took off yesterday morning from Gloucestershire Airport ...

Milly Formby wanted to better understand life as a bird, so she learned how to fly. Not by growing wings, or developing a superpower, but by getting her pilot's licence. She is about to embark on a 20 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A local pilot suffered a broken leg after his microlight aircraft crashed on landing at Plettenberg Bay airport at 19:10 on Saturday. Knysna-Plett Herald reports that, according to a press release by ...

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A MICROLIGHT plane flew off without its pilot after he got out to start it. The Pegasus Quantum 15’s battery was flat so he climbed out of the cockpit and walked to the engine at the back. He turned ...

"Yes, people think we're crazy," says Johannes Fritz, with a wry smile. And surveying the scene, it is easy to see why. We are in a playing field, in a small village in Austria, close to the Slovenian ...

Farming is an occupation synonymous with bad backs, so it was no surprise to hear a Buckinghamshire farmer once slipped a disc. What is surprising is the chain of events the painful injury triggered, ...

A 52-year-old man has suffered critical injuries after his microlight crashed near Sunderland Ridge, Centurion, on Monday morning, paramedics say. The passenger, an 18-year-old male, had a leg injury, ...