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Some of the newer ultralights are so advanced. If you have an extra $50,000 laying around and all the time in the world.....*GHETTOBLASTER » Today, 2:54 pm » wrote: ↑ Ultra lights were really popular in my neck of the woods before the area became overpopulated.
There was usually the annual story about a plane that had to make an emergency landing in a Farmer's field or else on one of our "lightly used" highways
The loudest of the loud and slowest of the slow was a home built "auto gyro copter"
I saw it up close once and the main rotor hub was a steel water pipe fitting you would see in a fire sprinkler system,
The control cables were common hardware store quality.
It was kind of scary looking, but the damn thing was airworthy and the dude put a lot of miles on it.
