EAA Hangar Flying has published an account of the restoration of John Moody’s Icarus II, a powered hang glider that became an important early symbol of the modern ultralight movement. The article, written by Bill Darnell and originally published in the August 2026 issue of EAA Sport Aviation, describes work carried out with help from members of the Michigan Ultralight Association, or MULA. It places the project within the history of an aircraft Moody demonstrated before crowds at the EAA convention in Oshkosh in 1976.
The account is primarily a restoration and aviation-history story, not a…