I have officially bought another toy...

I really want something I am happy with first and foremost. I guess I don't really care what others might think.

I might do some research on some old WWII airplane names, and see if anything sparks my interest.

Until then, if anyone has any ideas on either tailart or a name, post em' up! :D

Well, let me ask you , do you have any tatoos???

That a really cool looking ultralight. My Nephew has a Phantom and he's taken me flying several times. He flies into a hole in the clouds and zips around the skies. He was doing hammerheads once (and only once) with me in it. I felt the stick hitting both of my legs as he wrenched it back and forth. I heard words I never want to hear again. He said Uh-Oh.. Well let me tell you that's not good. I was also amazed how poor the glide ratio was. We did some dead stick landings and that thing drops like a rock.

I hope you enjoy it, I surely did but ALL my flying in the future will involve some busty flight attendant serving me scotch at 30,000 feet whilst I keep a lookout for Abdullah trying to blow his shoe up. (That's gotta hurt.)

Here are a few I also am considering...

Born Free
Midnight Express
Midnight Salvation
Dark Angel
Until it Sleeps (one of my favorite Metallica songs)
Sierra Hotel (meaning "Shit Hot")

How bout 10-96 (10 code for crazy)

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Well, let me ask you , do you have any tatoos???

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Nope, no tatoos. I actually think one wouldn't be bad, but always thought I would regret it when I get old and wrinkley and it looks like crap.

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That a really cool looking ultralight. My Nephew has a Phantom and he's taken me flying several times. He flies into a hole in the clouds and zips around the skies. He was doing hammerheads once (and only once) with me in it. I felt the stick hitting both of my legs as he wrenched it back and forth. I heard words I never want to hear again. He said Uh-Oh.. Well let me tell you that's not good. I was also amazed how poor the glide ratio was. We did some dead stick landings and that thing drops like a rock.

I hope you enjoy it, I surely did but ALL my flying in the future will involve some busty flight attendant serving me scotch at 30,000 feet whilst I keep a lookout for Abdullah trying to blow his shoe up. (That's gotta hurt.)

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They don't weight anything. Which is great for takeoff and landing, but is really bad if you loose power as it will want to slow down and hit stall speed in a hurry. You really would need to nose the plane down quickly and keep some airspeed up in that instance to keep it controllable.

Keep in mind that the VAST majority of ultralights are built really cheeply, and are actually quite dangerous. The Zipster is a lot safer than most out there. But even then, you can still get yourself in trouble if you push it too far and don't know what you are doing. You and your nephew were lucky.

I have been put through a lot of very intense training that most pilots don't even get the chance at. I've been put in planes for the first time ever without barely knowing anything about them, and expected to land and fly under less than ideal situations. I'm no veteran pilot by any means, but I do know that for something like this you need to have some experience. I plan on getting a few lessons in similar weighted aircraft even before I fly the Zipster for the first time.

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Nope, no tatoos. I actually think one wouldn't be bad, but always thought I would regret it when I get old and wrinkley and it looks like crap.




They don't weight anything. Which is great for takeoff and landing, but is really bad if you loose power as it will want to slow down and hit stall speed in a hurry. You really would need to nose the plane down quickly and keep some airspeed up in that instance to keep it controllable.

Keep in mind that the VAST majority of ultralights are built really cheeply, and are actually quite dangerous. The Zipster is a lot safer than most out there. But even then, you can still get yourself in trouble if you push it too far and don't know what you are doing. You and your nephew were lucky.

I have been put through a lot of very intense training that most pilots don't even get the chance at. I've been put in planes for the first time ever without barely knowing anything about them, and expected to land and fly under less than ideal situations. I'm no veteran pilot by any means, but I do know that for something like this you need to have some experience. I plan on getting a few lessons in similar weighted aircraft even before I fly the Zipster for the first time.

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All the more reason to call her "10-96"....

Nah ... call her NiteHawk .... with something similar to a firehawk bird !

10-4 on the 10-96. Let me think about this. Sitting on a spindley lawn chair with webbing, holding on by the rivets on your Levi's while attempting to keep a couple hundred pounds of recycled pepsi cans covered by some rags and held together by wire in the air. Unlike a drunk, gravity is not your friend. Yep, sounds like fun to me or should I just shoot myself and save 3000 feet of cursing as I corkscrew into a cornfield in Iowa.:D

^ Although some people may choose to fly some ultralights that may be in that condition, some may be better "looking" shape that are in reality not air-worthy. Again, why it is important if you get into this sort of thing you know what is safe, and what is not.

Popo, I can't bring myself to consider calling it "10-96". If I was part of the police department, and I knew what that meant to the point you do, perhaps, but it just wont work.

Not really sure still on the name. I may end up just calling it what it is. "Zipster", but I still do like the first picture of the tailart I posted the best.