Ultralight trike
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An ultralight trike or paratrike is a type of powered hang glider where flight control is by weight-shift.[1] These aircraft have a fabric flex-wing from which is suspended a tricycle fuselage pod driven by a pusher propeller. The pod accommodates either a solo pilot, or a pilot and a single passenger. Trikes grant affordable, accessible, and exciting flying, and have been popular since the 1980s.
Trikes[lower-alpha 1] are classified as microlights in Europe, and as light-sport aircraft in the United States. The aircraft are also known by other names, including 2-axis microlights, flex-wing trikes, microlight trikes, deltatrikes[2] or motorized deltaplanes.[3] In the United States, they are formally recognized by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) as weight-shift-control aircraft.[4]