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I get dirt bikes in my Ram 1500 short bed and can shut the tailgate if I fit them in diagonally. Street bikes with the tail gate open.

Stupid comments aside, doesn’t a Humvee have a locking axles? Why all the tire spin at 4:25?

I don’t think an AGM-114 could flip a bitch and engage an Sukhoi.

Yamaha???? whatcha got?

I’ll get there. I just hate looking up and watching the wing rotate 25-30 degrees when I fly through a gust or bubble. I tend to hit the ghost rudder with my feet which doesn’t help.

No, sorry they are not.

I use my phone for most pics but at night I need the good ol DSLR. I’m actually interested to know if the Light could pull off some decent night photography. Timing different lenses to pull different exposures would be awesome.

I’ve built my own primary gliders and launched them via tow, ocean breeze, and rolled them down a mountain side. They are wonderful but not capable of powered flight on their own.

Can it do this? Or this:

My hell Garrett.

From a pilot’s perspective, IMHO. If there are no controls, no ability to land or take off, then I’m not calling it an airplane.

Can we give Doug some additional ideas?

I should have added the ability for slow flight, being able to maintain lift at slower speeds for landing.

As private pilot with flying experience I figured out paragliding on my own. My ppg training consisted of some hill runs, a lot of kiting, and my first flights flying just before sunset with 0 wind. I also watched every paraglider crash I could find on youtube.

Swap out the skids for wheels on the X-15, and it certainly would be able to take flight under its own power, along with the X1.

Not being able to take off under its own power disqualifies it for me. When you have to jump out of a helicopter or balloon to gain enough speed for sustained flight then that doesn’t seem like much of an aircraft. He’s skydiving with some thrust.

What an idiot. In a paramotor you land at about 10-15MPH and require about 50’ to stop. Are you telling me the guy was unable to land in all that open space but instead went off a bridge and ended up in the creek?

The Belite Skydock from James Weibe is pretty dang small for a comparably safe ultralight.