Windtech Parapentes () is a Spanish
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
Gijón
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and founded in 1994. The company specializes in the design and manufacture of
paraglider
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s in the form of ready-to-fly aircraft, as well as rescue
parachute
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s.
[Bertrand, Noel; Rene Coulon; et al: ''World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2003-04'', page 36. Pagefast Ltd, Lancaster UK, 2003. ]
By the mid-2000s the company had established a complete line of paragliders, including the two-place
tandem
Tandem, or in tandem, is an arrangement in which two or more animals, machines, or people are lined up one behind another, all facing in the same direction. ''Tandem'' can also be used more generally to refer to any group of persons or objects w ...
Bantoo and the beginner
Coral
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for
flight training
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Flight training can be conducted under a str ...
, the beginner to intermediate
Tonic, the sports intermediate
Pulsar
A pulsar (''pulsating star, on the model of quasar'') is a highly magnetized rotating neutron star that emits beams of electromagnetic radiation out of its Poles of astronomical bodies#Magnetic poles, magnetic poles. This radiation can be obse ...
, the advanced intermediate
Quarx, the advanced cross country
Syncro and the competition
Nitro
Nitro may refer to:
Chemistry
*Nitrogen, a chemical element and a gas except at very low temperatures, with which many compounds are formed:
**Nitro compound, an organic compound containing one or more nitro functional groups, -NO2
**Nitro ligand ...
glider.
Aircraft
Summary of aircraft built by Windtech Parapentes:
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Windtech Altair
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Windtech Ambar
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Windtech Arial
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Windtech Bali
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Windtech Bantoo
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Windtech Cargo
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Windtech Combat
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Windtech Coral
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Windtech Evo
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Windtech Fenix
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Windtech Honey
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Windtech Impulse
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Windtech Kali
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Windtech Kinetik
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Windtech Loop
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Windtech Nitro
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Windtech Pulsar
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Windtech Quarx
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Windtech Ru-bi
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Windtech Serak
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Windtech Silex
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Windtech Spiro
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Windtech Syncro
Windtech Parapentes () is a Spanish aircraft manufacturer based in Gijón and founded in 1994. The company specializes in the design and manufacture of paragliders in the form of ready-to-fly aircraft, as well as rescue parachutes.Bertrand, Noe ...
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Windtech Tactic
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Windtech Tecno
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Windtech Tempest
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Windtech Tempus
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Windtech Tonic
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Windtech Tuareg
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Windtech Tucan
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Windtech Windy
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Windtech Zenith
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Windtech Zephyr
References
External links
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{{Windtech aircraft
Aircraft manufacturers of Spain
Paragliders
Spanish companies established in 1994
Spanish brands