Fancy a 200mph microlight? - The FLYER Show - 1st October 2026

Thanks to the latest Rotax 916iS engine with its 160hp max power, there’s a flock of superfast microlights becoming available - and the latest, the JMB VL3, has just been approved for the UK. As well as the power (cue: MORE POWER!), this new breed of 600kg microlights are also well-equipped, look sensational and, well, expensive.

In the News:
Owner of Wolverhampton Halfpenny Green killed
First UK JMB VL3 delivered
STOL UK Competition at Popham
Fairford RAT
Game Aerospace flies GB2 firebomber
Is NASA planning to fly an SR-71A Blackbird 
First UK Islander ready for delivery

In Fantasy Hangar
All the world’s talking about AI, it seems, so we’re joining in. This week’s Fantasy Hangar subject is aircraft that look as though they were designed by AI.
Dave picks a cross between a helicopter and a fixed-wing aircraft
Ian goes for what’s probably Burt Rutan’s strangest aircraft (and there have been a few)
Ed goes all Eastern Europe with a futuristic looking beast

Plus
SkyDemon tip on user waypoints
Weekend Weather forecast from Simon Keeling
What’s on this weekend

LINKS
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FLYER - https://flyer.co.uk/

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