Windward Performance is an aircraft design house and manufacturer located in
Bend, Oregon
Bend is a city in and the county seat of Deschutes County, Oregon, United States. It is the principal city of the Bend Metropolitan Statistical Area. Bend is Central Oregon's largest city, with a population of 99,178 at the time of the 2020 U.S ...
. The company is owned and led by Greg Cole. Windward Performance has helped numerous companies with technical expertise and in house they designed and developed the
SparrowHawk ultralight sailplane and the
DuckHawk high strength, high performance 15m sailplane.
[Bayerl, Robby; Martin Berkemeier; et al: ''World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2011-12'', page 138. WDLA UK, Lancaster UK, 2011. ]
The company also designed and built the
Perlan II
The Windward Performance Perlan 2 ( en, Pearl) is an American mid-wing, two-seats-in- tandem, pressurized, experimental research glider that was designed by Greg Cole and built by Windward Performance for the Perlan Project.Staff report, ''Th ...
stratospheric glider which now holds the sailplane world altitude record at 52,172 ft.
[''The Perlan II project continues to develop'', 24-25. FreeFlight, the Journal of the Soaring Association of Canada, Autumn, 2011.]
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Windward Performance
Aircraft manufacturers of the United States
Companies based in Bend, Oregon
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