Tales From Our Golden Age: Light Sport Aviation Pioneers Paperback – March 17, 2025

If you love airplanes and the people who fly them, you will enjoy this book. From the United States Midwest, where mankind realized its centuries-long dream of flight through the trials and errors of Octave Chanute on the Indiana dunes to the Wright Brothers' successful flying machine built in Dayton, a new form of flight was birthed in the 1970’s. It all started with a “flatlander” in Wisconsin who wanted to take his hang glider up to altitude. By mounting a small two-cycle engine onto his Icarus II hang glider, he achieved his goal…and also started a movement. It got the attention of the FAA and resulted in a wonderful new Federal Aviation Regulation, Part 103. Twenty-two years later, the end-result was the Sport Pilot License and aircraft categories. FAR Part 103 still exists for ultralight sport aviators today but nobody can deny, the ultralighters of the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s were the original Light Sport pilots and their stories are worthy of being told. Experience that exciting era with the people, planes and events that carved their own slice of aviation history. Read more