The RAF has set a new Guinness record for the world's first successful flight using only synthetic fuel. In a world-first, an Ikarus C42 microlight aircraft flown by Group Captain Peter Hackett, ...

Pilots flying microlights , a conventional two-seater aircraft weighing less than 450kg, need to have a private pilot’s licence, which they can get after 40 hours of flying with trained pilots.

The Royal Air Force has claimed a Guinness World Record for the first ever aircraft flight powered entirely by synthetic fuel. On November 2 in the skies over Cotswold Airport in the UK, Group Captain ...

AIR accident investigators have been unable to establish why a microlight plunged into the sea last year, killing the pilot and passenger. Ray Hymas, 68, and Terry Driffield, 66, both members of Baxby ...

Two aircraft came within metres of a potentially deadly collision in Welsh airspace last year, a newly-published report has revealed. Documents released by the UK Airprox Board show the pilots were ...