Steve Kiblinger, .. Builder of a Milholland Better Half 2 cylinder VW and Legal Eagle Ultralight Airplane
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Movie - Once around the patch with Jimmy Lee in the Maynard LEU
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First flight May 3, 2002
Air u n d e r the tires...
Larry Faast (President EAA UL chapter 114) was the first guest on the ranch strip...
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Steve Kiblinger, .. Builder of a Milholland Better Half 2 cylinder VW and Legal Eagle Ultralight Airplane
September 11, 2001 Remembered... We stand together...
Wings), Vortex Generators (Updated Landing Gear), [Mandatory] Update Empennage), [Mandatory] Update WingStruts), Updated Testing), ( Updated LeburgDualEI), pages and Refresh it if you've been there before... Leonard at Oshkosh 2004... Seen at Oshkosh 2001-2004... Contact Us The Eagler Yahoo Group has been started and more for Friends of the Legal Eagle Ultralight!!! Have you visited the Yahoo Interest Group "EaglersNests"? Click to see...
Flash!!! Mike Kimbrel (below) flies and comments on the Legal Eagle!
Steve Kiblinger, Stan Levin and Bruce Blauvelt join forces to build a Leonard Milholland Betterhalf VW and Legal Eagle Ultralight airplane plans serial #33...
This web site is the history of building the engine, airframe and subsequent flying performance of the airplane... No warranties for fitness or merchantability are expressed or implied... Pictures, processes, construction and reported flying qualities are made available as-is and all decisions to use are up to the reader and or the end user...
Custom aircraft building is a pursuit of symmetry and detail... Philosophers have struggled with this pursuit and best resolved for me by Thoreau at Waldon Pond when he declared, "Simplify, simplify, simplify, do not fritter your life away on detail". Leonard Milholland, the designer of the Betterhalf VW and Legal Eagle Ultralight airplane has listened to Thoreau and developed both engine and airframe followed with plans that are beautiful in simplicity and execution... As builders we try to bring that symmetry and detail together with our minds and hands... As pilots we practice to become one with the machine, knowing the instrumentation, use of controls and maneuvering as an organized part of the sky... Then, not always and oftener as you get better, you are flying a system that is symmetry and detail mastered by you, through the air with precision that only birds know as they rise and fall above the ridges as the maker moves air and landscape beneath them and you...