Büttner Propeller, also known as Gerald Büttner - Obernkirchen, is a German
aircraft manufacturer
An aerospace manufacturer is a company or individual involved in the various aspects of designing, building, testing, selling, and maintaining aircraft, aircraft parts, missiles, rockets, or spacecraft. Aerospace is a high technology industry. ...
based in
Obernkirchen
Obernkirchen () is a town in the district of Schaumburg, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated approximately 8 km southwest of Stadthagen, and 15 km east of Minden.
Obernkirchen is a small town in the shadows of the Bückeberg, a h ...
and founded by Gerald Büttner. The company specializes in the design and manufacture of
powered parachutes
A powered parachute, often abbreviated PPC, and also called a motorized parachute or paraplane, is a type of aircraft that consists of a parafoil with a motor and wheels.
The FAA defines a powered parachute as ''a powered aircraft a flexible or ...
,
paramotors
Powered paragliding, also known as paramotoring or PPG, is a form of ultralight aviation where the pilot wears a back-pack motor (a paramotor) which provides enough thrust to take off using a paraglider. It can be launched in still air, and on ...
and
aircraft propellers
An aircraft propeller, also called an airscrew,Beaumont, R.A.; ''Aeronautical Engineering'', Odhams, 1942, Chapter 13, "Airscrews". converts rotary motion from an engine or other power source into a swirling slipstream which pushes the propeller ...
. The aircraft are ready-to-fly designs for the European
Fédération Aéronautique Internationale
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microlight
Ultralight aviation (called microlight aviation in some countries) is the flying of lightweight, 1- or 2-seat fixed-wing aircraft. Some countries differentiate between weight-shift control and conventional three-axis control aircraft with aile ...
and categories.
[Bertrand, Noel; Rene Coulon; et al: ''World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2003-04'', pages 66 and 80. Pagefast Ltd, Lancaster UK, 2003. ISSN 1368-485X]
The company has a line of paramotors (''Rucksackmotoren'') called the
Büttner Crazy Plane
The Büttner Crazy Plane is a family of German paramotors designed by Gerald Büttner and produced by Büttner Propeller of Obernkirchen for powered paragliding. The aircraft are supplied complete and ready-to-fly.Bertrand, Noel; Rene Coulon ...
and a line of powered parachutes (''Gleitschirm Trikes'') called the
Büttner Crazy Flyer
The Büttner Crazy Flyer (also called the Crazy Flier) is a family of one and two-seat German powered parachutes designed and produced by Büttner Propeller of Obernkirchen. The aircraft are supplied complete and ready-to-fly, but without wi ...
. At one time it also produced the
Büttner Easy Plane
The Büttner Easy Plane is a German paramotor that was designed by Gerald Büttner and produced by Büttner Propeller of Obernkirchen for powered paragliding. Now out of production, when it was available the aircraft was supplied complete and r ...
.
Büttner also builds two-bladed carved wooden and two, three and four bladed plastic
ultralight aircraft
Ultralight aviation (called microlight aviation in some countries) is the flying of lightweight, 1- or 2-seat fixed-wing aircraft. Some countries differentiate between weight-shift control and conventional three-axis control aircraft with aile ...
propellers.
Aircraft
See also
*
List of aircraft propeller manufacturers
This is a list of aircraft propeller manufacturers both past and present:
A
* Aero Ltd. - Poland
* AeroLux Propellers - United States
* Aeroproducts - United States
* Aerosila - Russia
* Airmaster Propellers - New Zealand
* The Airscrew ...
References
External links
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Aircraft manufacturers of Germany
Ultralight aircraft
Homebuilt aircraft
Paramotors
Powered parachutes