Dave Higdon

It's probably just human nature that ogling what's new occupies so much of the attention of so many people so much of the time...

Ahhh, yesss! Paradise City as it used to be, as it should be. Thanks to days of drier weather, smooth winds, blue skies and...

http://www.msquaredaircraft.com/ While this M-Squared ultralight may not look like a Mazda RX-8 sports car, its powerplant does share the same rotary-engine technology, with a single-rotor mill that made five big guys strain to hold it back during a runup test in Paradise City. So power, apparently, isn't lacking.Better still, M-Squared boss Paul Mather (second from left) tells us he's shooting for an engine-and-all price for this machine in the $15,000 range.…

While this M-Squared ultralight may not look like a Mazda RX-8 sports car, its powerplant does share the same rotary-engine technology, with a single-rotor...

KITPLANES' own Amy Laboda took up the opportunity to fly something new in rotorcraft and put to use her gyro rating with a turn...

You want an airshow? You got an airshow. When the skydivers drop in and Old Glory unfurls, you know it's showtime as people gravitate...

Before flight, pilots get their morning briefing for the Paradise City pattern and, as happens, things had changed since last year, necessitating more detail...

Now this is more like what we come to Sun 'n Fun to see--an Apollo Fox LSA and a Lucky 2 ultralight lifting...

Still, not everyone stops and gawks during the afternoon airshow...some get busy and shop to take advantage of the lighter crowds in displays knowing...

A relative newcomer to the U.S. kit aircraft clan, the Sport Air Corsario import from Rio de Janeiro borrows characteristics from other amphibians while displaying a personality and pleasurable flying qualities uniquely its own; by Dave Higdon.