Many people contact us about soaring trikes, usually because of the lower price of soaring trikes compared to ‘regular’ trikes. Everyone wants to save money, so will a soaring trike work for you? First, what is soaring? Soaring is using thermals or ridge lift to keep an aircraft airborne without using the engine. This is […] Read More »
What is a Weight Shift Control Trike and How Does It Fly?
First some definitions: Weight Shift Control (WSC): this is the FAA’s term for an aircraft with a hang-glider type wing. These aircraft are also commonly called ‘trikes’, which is short for ‘hang glider trike’. Hang gliders are foot launched: your legs are the landing gear. As people added motors to hang gliders, they made three-wheeled […] Read More »