Legal Eagle ultralight - first flight - December 2023

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Published 2023-12-17
My first flight in a Legal Eagle ultralight. 1/2 VW Hummel powerplant, 45 HP.

All Comments (18)
  • Congrats on your maiden. Your son seems to be doing great MOM. Great vid.
  • @richarrrdj
    Great flying machine. The landing must have gone well as we have this video. Thanks for sharing your adventure
  • @johnbolding3749
    Nice build! I assume you are aware that if you put streamline covers on the struts your climb rate almost doubles. For a "first flight" you seem comfortable over LOTS of trees, miles from the runway. Be careful out there.
  • Nice work, I've been looking at the legal eagle and the affordaplane. Not sure whitch I want to build. Maybe neither since I think it might be nice for the wings to fold.
  • @todd718
    Is that a handle hanging down between the wings? Be sure there is adequate room so you don’t impale your noggin on it in the event of a sudden stop.
  • @ohwell2790
    Nice flight, but how did the wind screen get broken? And that fuel discoloring the fabric is not good. First flight HUH. The wing covering looks used and not freshly painted, odd things for a first flight I think. Looks like some real fun to be had flying your ultralight. Thanks for posting.
  • I'm sorry. Couldn't you put a cushion on that seat. It makes my butt hurt looking at the mesh. Other than that it's very cool.
  • Curious about your GoPro head strap and microphone setup. I fly a powered parachute and am trying to hook my comtronics headset up to my GoPro Hero 7 black so I can have audio for my videos. Please let me know if you have any pointers or ideas, thank you.
  • @nattybumpo7156
    Tell me more about your ignition setup please. Building right now. Trying to see what everyone else is doing.
  • @TomBean-qf6zv
    Wind noise much? Perhaps a different mic location, windsock, anything?