Tim Wescott wrote:
Jim Stewart wrote:
Tim Wescott wrote:
And always fly within an easy glide of a landing strip...

That's a given. The problem is an engine out on takeoff
climb. With an ultralight, it's very difficult to
impossible to get the nose down and airspeed up fast enough
to avoid a stall.

....
Surely there are ultralights that don't exhibit this problem!

There a Powered parachutes.[1]

Almost certainly other types of ultralights don't exhibit that issue
either, too. (Discounting even ultralight airships.) I suspect Jim
Stewart's source was generalizing a wee bit too much.

[1] http://www.quakerstatepoweredparachu...ne_failure.htm