A motorized hang glider across the straits.

[helix]

That must be a first.

https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2023/03/27/cuba-flee-florida-key-west-hang-glider-ovn-cprog-intl-hnk-vpx.cnn

[NSXCIGAR]

The Aviation Club of Cuba says the glider is used to give tourists beach flights

Things I will never do: get on a Cuban-made paraglider for a beach flight. 

[Ken Gargett]

3 hours ago, helix said:

That must be a first.

https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2023/03/27/cuba-flee-florida-key-west-hang-glider-ovn-cprog-intl-hnk-vpx.cnn

not to be too pedantic but a "motorised hang glider" is a plane. it is not a hang glider. by its very definition, a hang glider is non-motorised. 

and i am not getting on either version, Cuban or otherwise.  

[NSXCIGAR]

2 hours ago, Ken Gargett said:

not to be too pedantic but a "motorised hang glider" is a plane. it is not a hang glider. by its very definition, a hang glider is non-motorised. 

and i am not getting on either version, Cuban or otherwise.  

Yeah, I was thinking that's pretty much an ultralight at that point. Paragliding and paramotoring invloves a parachute. Motor ≠ gliding. 

Must be crazy Russians getting in those things in Cuba. Wow. If someone buys you a ticket for one of these things in Cuba I'm sorry to inform you they might be trying to kill you.