I had flown 2 years with out N number, My local DAR charges $ 350 to do all FAA paperwork, inspection etc. I am 60 build 6 or 7 planes Just purchase thunderghull odyssey enclosed one. Individual mechanical toe brakes front only. Landing gear is one piece rectangle fiberglass hollow core. Rudder cables replaced last year with stainless. Wings are constructed with foam D cel leading edge, aluminum spar and ribs 1.7 oz stits covering.Single strut supports each wing, no flaps, push pull tubes for airleon controll and elevator. I replaced engine with MZ202,also replaced engine mount with dynafocal RANS mount, Original fuel tank was riveted I had one welded holds about 11 gallons I had 280 lb passenger behind with no problems. Yes it is E LSA,2004 model about 70 hrs tt bought 2 years ago, had rotax 503 single ignition pull start. Da.Here is the info on this particular plane. After a two-day layover with strong wind gusts, Mike made a hop to Rosamond, then the next day, an incredible dawn-to-dusk day, flying from Rosamond, near Edwards Air Force Base, to Corning, California! …nearly 500 miles and eleven hours in a single day! The little Rotax 447 was flawless the whole trip.
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Update 2/17/20 - From a commenter whose handle is “Concerned Citizen” on Videoman Dave’s YouTube channel comes this update on Mike’s flight home: “Mike left Copperstate Sunday morning and made three legs, stopping in Blythe, Bermuda Dunes, then Banning due to severe winds and rain. Mike Jefferson did that with an AirBike journey that averaged a shade over 50 mph.Īs I write these words, he’s still probably making his way home. Every now and again, when the story is good, it’s fun to talk about somebody doing something interesting in aviation. Of course, people are behind every product but pilots seem to like the nuts and bolts of the story. The stories we media types tend to follow, well in my case at least, focus on airplanes and the hardware of flight. Red Bluff, California (well north of San Francisco) to Buckeye Arizona for Copperstate 2020 meant 900 miles by routes dictated by a small amount of fuel. What more could you need? Mike keeps his AirBike on the same airport as SLSA Dragonfly producer Ed Pittman of Pittman Air. Look at that cockpit view (a different angle shows in the video). Scott examined Mike’s AirBike as well as possible in the field and gave a thumbs up. Scott has developed AirBike back in the early 1990s while he was president of TEAM Aircraft. I know he did well as I brought Scott Severen over to look at it. Needing some care, he took the project and went over the whole aircraft. Mike Jefferson - AirBike Pilot - In the last year, Mike discovered his AirBike. Many are in regular airborne tractor duty around the USA and the world.
Mike got his powered aircraft training from Bobby Bailey, iconic designer of the Dragonfly tug that was specially created to tow hang gliders. So, Mike comes to flying AirBike via a different path than most (though, ironically, your author also flew hang gliders extensively some years before flying AirBike).
Doing this thousands of times with excellent success speaks to using best practices. Coaching, driving up to the launch site, setting up the glider, launching into flight, and retrieving from landing consumes much more than an hour even if the flight itself may be short. Each of Mike’s tandem flights isn’t walking out on the airport ramp and hopping in a plane for an hour. You can do your own math on how long it takes to achieve that. In that context, 5,000 becomes a very big number. For comparison, imagine giving 5,000 Young Eagle flights. Check this figure - Over his years in business, Mike reports taking more than 5,000 tandem flights from hills around San Francisco. The Speeder's design team said the sci-fi sky-bike recently passed flight tests. To achieve a perfect safety record, Mike has clearly set some proper techniques to work for him. The World’s First Flying Motorcycle Is Coming. Still, an instructor needs to know his or her student and preflight coaching is essential. FAA permits two place hang glider for instructional purposes, and believe me, every one going for a flight is going to learn plenty.
Mike Jefferson - Hang Gliding Instructor - Taking someone with you in a hang glider demands some level of cooperation from the student. In hang gliding, two people must hang from a common point* so they are side-by-side or one atop the other or some variation the method was called “tandem” and the term stuck. It doesn’t mean the same thing as tandem in a powered aircraft (one behind another).
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