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The "Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era" in the "See also" section was (until my edits, just now) filled with utterly unrelated, sharply-different aircraft. This is an ongoing problem in Wikipedia articles about ultralight and similar light sport aircraft.
The Airbike design configuration uses fairly traditional airframe fuselage construction: a framework of metal tubing. And its engine is in the front. And it's an open-cockpit design.
But someone listed a bunch of airplanes that do not fit ANY of those FUNDAMENTAL design characteristics of the Airbike -- instead listing PUSHER-engine / SINGLE-tube-keel aircraft, including the Kolb's, Lockwood Drifter, Spectrum Beaver, and others -- most of which were also ENCLOSED-cockpit.
Lumping them together with the Airbike is like comparing the Beech 18 to the Cessna Skymaster, just because they're both "light twins" with overlapping production years.
This reflects a common, very careless, even reckless, attitude about ultralights and such aircraft, by many Wikipedia editors -- who casually lump them all together as a single type. That is NOT the purpose of that section of the article. It is supposed to list similar aircraft.
Please respect the differences, and confine your "comparable" listings to those aircraft that are TRULY similar.
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The "Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era" in the "See also" section was (until my edits, just now) filled with utterly unrelated, sharply-different aircraft. This is an ongoing problem in Wikipedia articles about ultralight and similar light sport aircraft.
The Airbike design configuration uses fairly traditional airframe fuselage construction: a framework of metal tubing. And its engine is in the front. And it's an open-cockpit design.
But someone listed a bunch of airplanes that do not fit ANY of those FUNDAMENTAL design characteristics of the Airbike -- instead listing PUSHER-engine / SINGLE-tube-keel aircraft, including the Kolb's, Lockwood Drifter, Spectrum Beaver, and others -- most of which were also ENCLOSED-cockpit.
Lumping them together with the Airbike is like comparing the Beech 18 to the Cessna Skymaster, just because they're both "light twins" with overlapping production years.
This reflects a common, very careless, even reckless, attitude about ultralights and such aircraft, by many Wikipedia editors -- who casually lump them all together as a single type. That is NOT the purpose of that section of the article. It is supposed to list similar aircraft.
Please respect the differences, and confine your "comparable" listings to those aircraft that are TRULY similar.