Every Aircraft You Can Fly Without a License

you want to fly an aircraft but you don't want to bother getting a license well now you don't have to just buy any of these aircraft models and you can start flying tomorrow assuming that you took some flying lessons in advance all-american high wing tractor configuration and ultra light what more could you ask for from an aircraft since being first produced in 1994 the price of the plane was around 7 200 in 2001 the price jumped to about 8 000 and still the aircraft was an absolute steal now you'll have to spend between 200 and 300 hours in the garage assembling it but it's well worth it oh and we forgot to mention that the kit doesn't come with an engine and the company charges extra for that the plane could be piloted by only one person although a bigger two-seater version was developed a bit later the length of the aircraft is only 16 feet and it has a jaw-droppingly long wingspan measuring 26 feet the m-tow of the aircraft is about 560 pounds which leaves you with about 300 pounds of useful load that's plenty of room for the pilot and the fuel the engine you'll have to purchase with the air bike will be the rotax 447 which produces 40 horsepower and a max speed of 80 miles per hour the cruise speed goes down to around 63 miles per hour or 100 kilometers per hour with a range of 173 miles or 280 kilometers this plane is a rookie pilot's dream before we talk about the mx-103 let's discuss a little bit of history back in the day quicksilver c was created as a self-launching hang glider this was great news for the pilots in the flatlands as they could fly without launching the glider from atop a hill so a company named iperformance founded by dick eiper started manufacturing the first quicksilvers back in the 1970s the most memorable model was the mx-1 which peter berger modified and managed to set 56 world and national records back in 1982 currently there are nine models of the aircraft but the one we're interested in is the 103. this is the powered glider that complied with the ultralight regulations has a horsepower of 50 and will probably set you back about 18 nine hundred dollars to own the model is fully assembled and is based on the sprint which is famous for its safety this ultralight with a pusher engine configuration and a high wing was designed by terry raber and at the start was manufactured by aerowworks incorporated the first model was introduced back in 1997 and production continued until 2005. the aerolite 103 experienced some problems and production was ceased until 2013. that's when you fly it light sport aircraft llc bought the rights of this aircraft and manufacturing is still going strong the plane is sold as a kit aircraft and aside from the pre-built fuselage wings control surfaces jury struts and struts you'll also get an assembly manual the estimated time for completion of the kit is said to be around 80 hours which is about 10 8 hour sunday spent in the garage the number of pilots as usual is one the length of the aircraft is 17 feet and its wingspan is about 26 feet the mtow is 600 pounds which leaves room for over 350 pounds of cargo the reason the aerolite 103 can reach a max speed of 70 miles per hour or 113 kilometers per hour is thanks to the rotax 447 engine that produces 40 horsepower the cruise speed is 63 miles per hour or about 100 kilometers per hour with a full tank of gas you can expect to reach a destination that's about 120 miles or 194 kilometers away some say this is a half jet ski half plane we just say it's super freaking awesome and yes you don't need a pilot's license to fly it it was designed by akisukas from flynano in finland and it's a futuristic aircraft that the company doesn't advise amateurs to take for a ride they say that you'll need some aviation experience before flying it even though it looks bulky the weight of the fly nano is only 155 pounds or 70 kilograms and this is because the design is made from durable carbon fiber we know all of you watching these videos are wondering only one thing how fast is the fly nano well the top speed is about 75 miles per hour which is the equivalent of 120 kilometers per hour this is precisely the reason they advise beginners to avoid this aircraft currently there are three models offered by the company one of them is electric the other one is gas and the other one is racing this is a water glider which means you'll have to start it from a lake or river the fly nano has a range of about 43 miles and make sure wherever you go you have a safe landing place for the fly nano if you're looking to get one the company's offering them for between thirty six thousand and thirty nine thousand dollars whether you call it the hummel ultra cruiser or just the ultra cruiser people will probably know what you're talking about it's interesting to note that hummel aviation sells this plane in a kit form suitable for amateurs to build it in their garage it'll take you about 420 hours in the garage which means if you spend eight hours every sunday trying to build it it'll take a whole year before it's complete this is why the company also offered a ready-to-fly model if you're interested in specs we should tell you that this aircraft can accommodate one person has a length of 16 feet or about 5 meters and a wingspan of 25 feet the same as 7.6 meters the ultra cruiser can reach a cruise speed of 60 miles per hour or just shy of 100 kilometers per hour the never exceed speed on the aircraft stands at 95 miles per hour or 150 kilometers per hour it's not too bad considering that it's powered by a half vw two cylinder air-cooled four-stroke engine that exerts about 37 horsepower the engine is connected to a two-bladed propeller made out of wood in the front now we don't really have any numbers regarding range but we're going to go ahead and presume it's not much since the ultra cruiser has a 5 gallon fuel tank extremely minimalistic nothing more than a pilot seat a tail fan and a rotor connected to the power plant this is the simplest way to explain the benson b8 gyrocopter the first flight of the b8 gyro was taken on december 6th 1955. the aircraft became extremely popular with thousands upon thousands of models being sold in the three decades that followed and benson was the one manufacturing it this continued until 1987. that's when the company smashed that like button if you haven't done so already but no in all seriousness it's when the company went under and it seemed like the b8 was forever lost in time but the enthusiasts who still want to buy their own can get the plans and start building them at home the aircraft was so popular that the government wanted to use them during the vietnam war if the company could design ejection seats on the small gyro and then a variant from the b8 the bam called spirit kitty hawk was flown on the 60th anniversary of the day the wright brothers took flight for the first time the kitty hawk duplicated the flight it's a single seater it has a length of 11 feet or 3.4 meters and a height of 6 feet the empty weight of the aircraft stands at exactly 247 pounds and it has an mtow of 500 pounds taking out the six gallons for the fuel tank you're left with over 200 pounds for the pilot the max speed of the gyrocopter is 85 miles per hour and the cruise speed stands at 60 miles per hour or 100 kilometers per hour and to tell you the truth we don't think that a range of 100 miles or 160 kilometers is bad not bad at all this is one of the newest models that top rudder developed only recently currently if you want to just confirm your kit reservations you can expect to pay exactly seven thousand five hundred dollars but remember this is only the deposit just the plane without the engine propeller or avionics will cost you fifteen thousand five hundred dollars the solo 103 with all of the equipment will cost you twenty two thousand dollars and then another eight thousand dollars for the ballistic parachute is it optional not if you want to comply with part 103's regulations for ultralight it's a 254 pound high wing aircraft that has a gross weight of 550 pounds this leaves almost 300 pounds of useful load which means the pilot doesn't need to watch his weight before jumping in the cockpit the length of the aircraft is 17 and a half feet and the wingspan stands at 28 feet fuel capacity is a modest 5 gallons the max speed the aircraft can reach with the palini thor 250 engine is 54 miles per hour or a cruise speed of 50 miles per hour which is the same as 80 kilometers per hour because fuel consumption is low you can expect to have about two hours of flight time this means that the maximum range you can have with the solo 103 is a hundred statute miles joining the ranks of the most popular aircraft in the entire world the quad city challenger can be taken from a single seater and turned into a double seater or even a float plane it's built by the quad city aircraft corporation and it's been in production since 1983. until 2011 there have been about 3 571 units built and sold to customers and currently there are six models you can find from the same ultralight when designing the challenger the company wanted to build a plane that could be sold and assembled at home by the customers that's why they developed four major sub kits one for the fuselage one for the wings another for the tail and the last one for the engine the ultralight challenger is a single seater with a wingspan of 31.5 feet or 9.6 meters now we should tell you that this aircraft can be outfitted with different engines but if you're looking for the ultralight aircraft then the engine of choice will have to be the herth f44 800 of them have been flown as of 2011. john updegrow from innovator technologies from alberta canada has engineered and made the ultralight mosquito air helicopter they have international shipping and if you want to order one you'll need to place an order six to eight months in advance if you want to order the kit and build it yourself the price will be thirty thousand two hundred dollars that price goes up if you decide to get the already assembled aircraft and it'll set you back thirty seven thousand dollars the weight is right on the nose standing at 254 pounds or 115 kilograms the max takeoff weight of the aircraft is 260 kilograms or 570 pounds which leaves plenty of weight for the fuel tank and the driver speaking of which the main tank capacity is 19 liters this will allow you to be in the air for exactly one hour because the mosquito air is powered by the mz-202 two-cylinder engine the max speed of this mini chopper is 70 miles per hour or 112 kilometers per hour and the cruise speed stands at around 60 miles per hour or 96 kilometers per hour not too bad for an ultralight mini helicopter that's only 21 and a half feet in length we're not talking about the paragliding where the pilot needs to take off by jumping off a cliff we're talking about the sport of powered paragliding or power motoring as it's called it's part of the ultralight aviation section which means you don't need a pilot's license in order to fly this just turn on the motor in the back and the propeller has more than enough thrust force to propel you forward and help you take off so you can be standing on still ground and the glider could still open if you're wondering about the speed of a powered paraglider they're seemingly slow ultra lights can reach top speeds of up to 50 miles per hour which is the equivalent to 80 kilometers per hour buying a paraglider is cheap usually about three thousand dollars but buying a powered paraglider is what costs a lot of money with the engine or paramotor the sport requires an initial investment of between ten thousand and fifteen thousand dollars before and during takeoff the paramotor will be strapped to your back and it'll usually weigh between 45 and 90 pounds after takeoff you'll just slide into your seat the paramotor will be supported by the paraglider itself it doesn't get more american than the cold firefly ever since new cold aircraft started producing these fireflies from its manufacturing facility in london wait isn't london in the uk not that london we're talking about the one in kentucky that's the home of the cold firefly since 1995 when the company started production they're selling kit planes that are intended for amateur construction to design it the company took their cold fire star and wanted to make it compliant with the far 103 ultra light regulations if you look at size you'll see that it has a length of 19 feet 6 meters a wingspan of 22 feet 6.7 meters and an empty weight just one pound under the maximum allowed for an ultralight the mto is 500 pounds which gives it a useful load of 247 pounds part of that is for the 5 gallon fuel tank and the rest of it is pilot weight the reason the cold firefly can reach a max speed of 70 miles per hour 110 kilometers per hour and a cruise speed of 60 miles per hour 100 kilometers per hour is because of the single rotax 447 twin cylinder two-stroke engine that produces about 40 horsepower this also allows the plane to have a rate of climb of a thousand feet per minute needless to say this is our favorite entry from all ten it's called the hopper balloon but people usually call them cloud hoppers the hopper balloon doesn't have the basket you see on a hot air balloon instead there's only one seat for the pilot and wears a harness that's similar to that of a parachute you can steer and control the hopper balloon to give it direction with an average sized envelope that's what they call the balloon of the aircraft you can expect to fly between one and one and a half hours here's how it works the propane tank strapped to the back of the pilot is connected to a burner that's on a frame above the pilot's head the pilot can turn and swivel independently of the hot air balloon which allows anyone controlling it to turn in any direction the people you see flying these balloons are usually recreational pilots and amateurs oh and if they haven't bought the hopper balloon from one of the two major manufacturers then chances are they've built them at home introduced for the first time at the sun and fun air show in 1982 the main manufacturer was phantom aeronautics from the usa the reason we had to specify main is because there have been a lot of copies and fakes on the market the plane was being sold in kit form and it began producing the same year it was introduced at the air show since it would take the amateur builder about 40 hours to build this aircraft was widely accepted by flying enthusiasts we're not going to be focusing on the six different models of the same aircraft in fact we'll be focusing on the x1 which can only be piloted by one person and we also found it interesting that the empty weight of the aircraft was slightly under the 254 pound limit weighing only 250 pounds with a gross weight of 510 pounds and only 9 gallons of fuel this left about 200 pounds for the pilot the main power plant that allows the aircraft to reach a maximum speed of 61 miles per hour 98 kilometers per hour is the single rotax 447 twin cylinder two-stroke engine that'll give you 40 horsepower on top of this it had a rate of climb at about 800 feet per minute 2080 units have been built and sold as of 2011 and this ultralight was introduced back in 1983. for nearly four decades these planes are still in production in kit form just like our next example this was to a canadian ultralight and a popular one of that the rx 550 the model that we now know as the spectrum beaver was preceded by two other aircraft the first one was the rx-28 and the second one the rx-35 as most of you who are fans of ultralights already guessed the rx-28 suggests that the first model was powered by a rotax 277 engine which produced exactly 28 horsepower by the same logic the second model was powered by a 35 horsepower engine which back then was the rotax 377 and then came the rx 550 now this doesn't mean the plane had a 550 horsepower engine but rather it had a pusher rotax 503 producing 50 horsepower because it was really reliable had predictable and easy handling the plane conquered the canadian market by storm not only amateur pilots but also training schools bought these planes for beginning pilots looking at the beaver ss we could say that the aircraft has a length of 18 feet 5 and a half meters and a wingspan measuring 31 feet nine and a half meters from tip to tip it was equipped with a rotex 447 producing 40 horsepower and had a 5 foot propeller because of the engine the single pilot could reach a max speed of 85 miles per hour the same as 140 kilometers per hour and a cruise speed of 67 miles per hour or 110 kilometers per hour filled up to the brim the fuel tank can take you to a destination that's 140 miles away this is probably the most popular ultralight aircraft that originated from canada the manufacturer was ultraflight inc and the designer is a guy by the name of dale cramer he got inspired to build this ultralight when he visited the oshkosh eaa convention back in 1977 there he noticed that the market was hungry for a brand new plane that would fit in the ultralight category the following year at the convention he met ed sweeney he and sweeney partnered up and used the engine kit's sweeney built on the superfloater but they weren't really satisfied so kramer decided to keep the engines which were superior to those on the market but his idea was to build a new plane around them the design he came up with was new it was a reference to both lazy air and the french expression laissez-faire there have been three series of the plane so far and many variations to the model the second series plane had a max speed of 55 miles per hour or 90 kilometers per hour and a cruise speed of 40 miles per hour or 65 kilometers per hour thanks to the double rotax 185 engines each producing 9.5 horsepower on a full tank of gas it's not surprising for the lazaire to reach a destination that's 135 miles 220 kilometers away the aircraft has an impressive size for an ultralight standing at 13 feet long and having a wingspan that's almost triple the size of the body 36 feet the same as 11 meters if you were to measure the aircraft on a body scale which would surprisingly fit the max weight limit you'd get 210 pounds the mto is 450 pounds or 200 kilograms this means that there's over 100 kilograms or 240 pounds for the pilot in fuel bye for now

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Length: 19min 52sec (1192 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 21 2022