Casey's thoughts on flying further than he's ever done before, taking off at altitude, mid-flight catheter failure & rocking up at a strangers house after landing in their paddock....
Scotty Duncan and his Polini 190 are back in the race. An incredible display of mid-race emergancy repairs, and he's rewarded with....crap weather and a broken pull cord. Hang in there Scotty. Here's his story.
Yes, if you say it in an American accent, it works. Here's our Paean to Ian - say that one in an English accent - who (toe) dragged all before him to claim the race class title in the inaugural Quickarus.
Herewith the third instalment of our IT-X pilot reports. Was this the bearded face that launched a thousand times? And burned AVGAS in his Thor190? Sweet Ethan! Make you immortal with this blog. (apologies, Marlowe fans)
The second in our series of reports covering the Magnificent Seven Pioneering Pilots who tackled the inaugural Icarus X in Arkansas, USA. Here is the Anthem of Adriel, and the Dirge of Doran. Lyrically, as well as genetically, they come as a pair
Any excuse to commission some giant inflatable prick-shaped things. The Quicarus is born, in the USA. This is the midwife's report. Warning: contains fly-speak. But not too much
It's a question that springs to most peoples minds when they start to consider taking on the Icarus. There is a fair amount of conflicting information...
The winner of the 2015 Icarus Trophy gives us the low down in his traditional Aussy bloke way we just couldn't shut him up. Well we managed to get some words from the master of understatement at least.
Mr Ryan Southwell, taker of the esteemed joint second place in the World's first Icarus Trophy very kindly just plonked this here video into the ether and sent us a link.
