What happens when you’re a guy with lifelong aerospace experience that ranges from Cubs (the small airplane, not the Chicago baseball team) up to retiring from a position as a Lead Flight Director for NASA’s Human Space Flight program? In this case, it means that your name is Paul Dye, and that you’re an editor at the independent homebuilt aircraft magazine Kitplanes.
With those kinds of experiences under your belt, it’s probably no surprise that Dye seems to be a constantly curious individual. (To do the things he’s done, you kind of have to be, don’t you?) That’s probably why, after going to California to write about Gabriel DeVault’s Zero Motorcycle-engined motorglider build, learning about the process, and going for a flight in it, he decided to build his own. (By the way, if DeVault’s name sounds familiar, it should. He’s one of the founders of Zero Motorcycles and was its R & D head for several years.)
