A microlight pilot had a heart attack at 1,500ft during a solo flight and lived to tell the tale after performing a 'text book landing' in a field. John Lord had been 20 minutes into his flight when ...

A microlight pilot killed minutes into his first solo flight had had no formal training, air accident investigators reported today. Adrian Paterson, 49, from Clackmannan, Scotland, died when his craft ...

SYDNEY, Australia – A blind British adventurer touched down in Sydney on Monday to end an epic 13,500-mile flight by microlight aircraft from London. Miles Hilton-Barber, a 58-year-old father of three ...

Aussie woman Milly Formby is flying her microlight around the country to shine a light on the plight of the world’s endangered shorebirds. Here’s why. Zoologist Milly Formby is following shorebirds ...

A man recently diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer and who is semi-paralysed has completed a microlight flight to raise funds for charity. Jamie Fairweather, from Gullane, East Lothian, ...

Li Bing, a farmer in Daqing, Heilongjiang province, attracted huge attention on the internet on Sunday. The 35-year-old successfully carried out the trial flight of a microlight aircraft designed and ...

19:52, Mon, Jun 22, 2015 Updated: 20:44, Mon, Jun 22, 2015 It suddenly appeared, clinging to a wing, during a pilot's maiden flight in a microlight. Romain Jantot and his instructor were concentrating ...

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