I have the power of flight!

Raggit · Sun 13/05/2007 03:54:38

Ever since I was a kid looking up at the fluffy summer clouds, I've wanted the ability of flight. It's pretty intense when you're actually jealous of birds.

This evening, I lifted up off the earth and sailed over my house, my neighbors' houses, and over the surrounding landscape.

As much as I wish I could say I just suddenly found this power of flight within myself spontaneously and out of wishful thinking, I can't. Instead, I made this flight in the ultralight aircraft that I and my father built together about a year ago. I had been doing practice hops along the runway at the airport and stuff, and this evening I was finally able to take off from home. (Thanks to a big nearby field and a needed take-off distance of very little.)

So, anyway, there's no feeling like the feeling of the wind hitting you in the face as you're sailing above the ground in a personal flying machine.

Here's a video on YouTube of what a Skypup (not ours) looks like:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIcAqU7Ry4Q&mode=related&search=

It rocks. Seriously.

Darth Mandarb · Sun 13/05/2007 05:19:56

I am Darth's envy ...

That's seriously cool stuff.

Ubel · Sun 13/05/2007 09:44:42

I want to do that!

Raggit · Sun 13/05/2007 15:05:05

http://www.skypup.net/index2.htm

Plans are still available for the Skypup. If building it isn't your thing, (which it really wasn't mine,) you can get yourself one of those power chutes. They're pretty costly, though, and that sucks. But I've ridden in one, and they are sweet, with very little need for room to take off or land. Best of all, no pilot's license required! (For either Skypup or the power chute.)