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Back to his roots

By General Aviation News Staff · January 12, 2017 ·

Frequent contributor Rafael Cortes sent in these photos for Picture of the Day, with a quick note: “After some time flying other light-sport aircraft, I decided to go back to my ultralight roots, and get re-checked in the Quicksilver Sport2S. It was a fun sunset flight over Arecibo, even flying by the new tallest statue in US Territory (even taller than the Statue of Liberty), the Birth of the New World (or The Statue of Columbus).

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  1. Richard says

    January 13, 2017 at 3:14 pm

    Nice pictures. On another subject, under related posts, I wasted my time reading “What’s Expected at Oshkosh” and then noticed it was from 2012.What a waste of time. Your publication has gone down hill since you changed the format. As far as I’m concerned, I don’t like it. Others might.

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