Change to our Blog Site

To those who may be initiated in web technologies may have recognised that our Blog Site at microlightwings.com/blog is a Wordpress blog which we host on our own servers. In recent days we have set up our new blogging system as a direct part of our main site. This will hopefully prove advantageous to all our guests and registered members as well as ourselves for managing and posting to our Blog. For the time being our old Blog will still remain active for the next few we

The demonstrator has arrived at Barton Aerodrome. Mark Jackson has had P&M's new baby there for a few weeks now. Initially the wing was set up for slow flying so Mark had been unable to give it a good test. "It flies and handles very much like a Quick" Mark told me which was probably due to the way the wing had been configured and he was hoping to get Roger down from P&M to make the necessary changes.

Here are a few photos I took whilst at the airfield last night. Hopefully weather permitting we

Mark Jackson's Microlight FlyOut

7 FlexWing Microlights Enjoy A Sunday By The Sea

Meeting up at Barton Aerodrome in Manchester at 7:00am on Sunday 5th April, 7 pilots flying flexwing microlights prepared for a day out to Shobdon and Caernarfon arranged by Mark Jackson Chief Flying Instructor at Mainair Microlight Centre.

Read how they got on and see some of the photos. Barton Flexwing Microlight FlyOut - 05-04-09

Cessna Loses Another Prototype Skycatcher

Cessna's desires to enter into the Light Sport Aviation arena, appear to have had yet another setback after the 2nd of its prototypes was lost in El Dorado, during recent testing.

The first prototype was completely destroyed in September 2008, after the test pilot lost control and could not recover the aircraft from a spin during a test flight. Fortunately the pilot bailed out and was unharmed in the incident.