Ultralight or Part 103 trikes

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New altitude record in electric trike!

By Ken
http://www.aopa.org/News-and-Video/All-News/2014/June/24/electric-trike-record.aspx

Glad to see some progress in the electric trike arena.

South Carolina pilot sets the bar (not too high)

On June 21, with scattered clouds overhead and a crowd gathered on and around Greenville Downtown Airport in Greenville, S.C., Gary Davis launched in a near-silent pursuit of a world record. Flying an ultralight trike, a custom combination of a North Wing Stratus wing matched to an electric-powered trike frame designed by Randall Fishman, Davis aimed for glory just a few thousand feet above.

It would not take much: No one had yet attempted an altitude record in this particular aircraft configuration, so getting off the ground would do the job. Davis, however, had higher aspirations than that—at least 3,281 feet (1,000 meters).

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“I would have been ashamed if I hadn’t reached that goal,” Davis said with a slight chuckle in a telephone interview following his flight. ......