From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishmicrolightmi‧cro‧light /ˈmaɪkrəʊlaɪt $ -kroʊ-/ noun [countable] TTAa very light small plane for one or two people
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microlight• He was to receive the necessary flying instruction from a microlight instructor.• Rotors and microlights whirred overhead; the sky was thick with traffic.• Unlike nearly every microlight aircraft I've flown to date, the power plant up front was not out of the Rotax stable.• Then last February he bought a second-hand Gemini FlashIIA microlight, a weight-shift control aircraft, direct from the manufacturer.• Charles Cockell plans to collect moths from his microlight plane.• Read in studio A revolutionary type of microlight aircraft has won a design council award.• In December 1991 he often visited a nearby farm landing strip and talked to microlight owners and examined their aircraft.• But unlike microlights they can cope deftly with the most terrifying low-level turbulence. 