The 2022 STOL Invitational—part of the Twilight Flight Fest at EAA AirVenture—featured standing-room-only crowds on the ultralight field, as people began gathering more than an hour in advance to ...

STOL planes might seem most at home in the wilderness of the frozen north, two-seaters flying in to deliver winter supplies to some tiny village just outside the Arctic Circle. STOL stands for "short ...

Read Davin Coburn's flying blog and listen to him discuss his adventure. Listen to Davin Coburn adventure as he describes it on the Popular Mechanics Show (podcast). We're off the ground early, seven ...

Ultralight aircraft offer an accessible entry into aviation for beginners, typically not requiring a pilot's license or in-depth training, and many can be assembled from kits. These aircraft are ...

Ultralights are allowed to reach 14,000 feet in altitude, but can go higher with waivers. There are four major categories of ultralights: Hang glider trikes; fixed-wing, open cockpit planes; powered ...

Russia’s Siberian Research Institute for Aviation (SibNIA) has performed the first test flight of Partizan, its ultra short-takeoff-and-landing (STOL) transport aircraft demonstrator. The aircraft ...

The small airplane falls sideways through the air. Its fabric-covered wings akimbo to the line it's following, like if someone where walking with one hip thrust awkwardly forward. To the uneducated ...