Quasar is a
Czech
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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.
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based in
Dolní Bečva
Dolní Bečva is a municipality and village in Vsetín District in the Zlín Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 1,900 inhabitants.
Geography
Dolní Bečva is located about northeast of Vsetín and south of Ostrava. It lies on the border ...
and founded by Karel Haman. The company specializes in the design and manufacture of
hang glider
Hang gliding is an air sport or recreational activity in which a pilot flies a light, non-motorised, fixed-wing heavier-than-air aircraft called a hang glider. Most modern hang gliders are made of an aluminium alloy or composite frame covered ...
s in the form of ready-to-fly aircraft, plus
ultralight trike
An ultralight trike or paratrike is a type of powered hang glider where flight control is by weight-shift control, weight-shift. These light-sport aircraft, aircraft have a fabric Rogallo wing, flex-wing from which is suspended a tricycle fusel ...
wings.
[Bertrand, Noel; Rene Coulon; et al: ''World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2003-04'', page 47. Pagefast Ltd, Lancaster UK, 2003. ]
The company produces a wide range of hang glider wings that has included beginner wings, like the
Quasar Tramp, intermediate wings, such as the
Quasar 2000 and the
Quasar Flavio that was designed by world hang gliding champion
Tomáš Suchánek plus the competition topless
Quasar Relief wing design.
Aircraft
References
External links
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Aircraft manufacturers of the Czech Republic and Czechoslovakia
Ultralight aircraft
Ultralight trikes
Hang gliders