After lunch in Pueblo s airport we flew back. LEAF is large and successful, as the microlight industry goes. Bill Raisner, the head of the company, and his staff were friendly and kind. In many ways it is easier to work in the microlight plane business in the United States than in Russia. For example, in Russia it is almost impossible to buy tool kits.
Enthusiasts have to build planes almost from nothing.
Rotax is too expensive. So I have had to construct wings, carriages, gear boxes, and propellers myself. There are no competitors in Russia yet, nor is there a market. In Russia I have a twin-axis control microlight. In Colorado Springs I did not see such models at all.