When Captain Arvind Sharma became the first person in India to get a microlight pilot’s licence several years ago, few people had heard of the planes and even fewer had flown them. However, since then ...

THE launch of a new microlight flying school is a boost to an airport's aim of becoming a major general aviation centre, bosses say. Microlight flying instructor Gordon Wilson has opened the school at ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Engine failure forced a microlight aircraft into an emergency landing in a Co Down barley field yesterday. It came down close to Moate Road, between Newtownards and Comber. Emergency services who ...

A seriously injured pilot was airlifted to hospital after his microlight crash landed. A witness to the incident has told how he put the stricken man into the recovery position after rushing over to ...