Bell  Chotia  Cohen  Hill  Hovey  Ison  Jensen  Kolb  Mauro  Mitchell  Moody  Newman  Teman  Wheeler 

Kevin Bell. Designer of the Northstar Viking. Flew Coast to Coast in an ultralight in 1979. It took 30 days.

John Chotia. Mr. Chotia was the designer of the Weedhopper, Woodhopper, Gypsy and Rocket. As President of Weedhopper of Utah he built and sold many designs which have been the mainstay in the US and oversees ultralight markets.

Steve Cohen. Prolific Australian designer of the Avenger, Condor, and Thruster.

 

Klaus Hill. Mr. Hill was the designer of the Sailwing glider, the basis for the Twin Boomer and Delight Wing in the 1970s. His designs also included the Honeybee, Weedhopper, Hummer (seen below) and Humbug.

Bob Hovey. Designer of the Whing Ding II, Delta Bird, Delta Hawk, and Super Delta Hawk. Author of numerous books on aeronautical design of light aircraft.

Wayne Ison. Mr. Ison designed and built the original P.D.Q. from which the miniMAX evolved. He is the creator of the ISON Aircraft (originally TEAM) line of aircraft, including the miniMAX, Hi-MAX, and AirBike.

Volmer Jensen. Mr. Jensen, designer of the VJ-22 Sportsman, was involved in hang gliding as early as 1925 and again in the 1970’s. 

Homer E. Kolb. (1931-2009). Prolific designer and builder of the Flyer, Firestar, and Ultrastar. First to build an airplane which weighed less than pilot.

Larry Mauro. Mr. Mauro started the Ultralight Flying Machine Company. His designs include such pioneering ultralights as the Demoiselle, Solar Riser and Easy Riser (See below). An interview with Mr. Mauro. http://www.lightsportaircraft.ca/volume1-issue32/webcast-5/

 

Don Mitchell. Don and Richard worked together at Mitchell Aircraft Corporation from 1977 through 1983. Don passed away in 1991 leaving the designs and manufacturing rights for the Mitchell Wing Models B-10, U-2 and the P-38 to Richard.

John Moody. Mr. Moody is widely recognized  as the "father of ultralight". In a foot launched McCulloch 101 powered Icarus II hang glider (see pic. below) on July 27, 1976, John was the first to demonstrate ultralight aviation at the annual EAA fly-in convention in Oshkosh, WI. 

 

Larry Newman. Introduced the Eagle ultralight in 1979 and the Falcon in 1982. An all around pilot, designer and manufacturer.

Robert Teman. The designer of the Monofly (seen below), BiFly and Superfly. These were very hardy ultralights.

Ron Wheeler. Designer of the the world's first commercially produced ultra light (Scout Mk1) that spawned a new Australian industry.