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Advance Thun
Advance Thun SA is a Swiss aircraft manufacturer based in Thun. The company specializes in the design and manufacture of paragliders, harnesses, paragliding carrying bags and paragliding clothing.Bertrand, Noel; Rene Coulon; et al: ''World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2003-04'', page 10. Pagefast Ltd, Lancaster UK, 2003. Advance is a société anonyme, a share-held company. The company is one of the world's leading manufacturers of paragliders. They produce a full line of paragliders ranging from training to competition gliders. Many of their glider models have been developed over successive generations of refinements. Gliders include the beginner Advance Alpha, the intermediate Epsilon and Sigma as well as the competition Omega and the two-place Advance Bi Beta. The 2015 Red Bull X-Alps competition was won by Chrigel Maurer (first) and Sebastian Huber (second), both flying Advance Omega XAlps gliders. They flew over seven days of bivouac flying Paragliding is the re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Société Anonyme
The abbreviation S.A. or SA designates a type of limited company in certain countries, most of which have a Romance language as their official language and employ civil law. Originally, shareholders could be literally anonymous and collect dividends by surrendering coupons attached to their share certificates. Dividends were therefore paid to whoever held the certificate. Share certificates could be transferred privately, and therefore the management of the company would not necessarily know who owned its shares. As with bearer bonds, anonymous unregistered share ownership and dividend collection enabled money laundering, tax evasion, and concealed business transactions in general, so governments passed laws to audit the practice. Nowadays, shareholders of S.A.s are not anonymous, though shares can still be held by a holding company in order to obscure the beneficiary. In different countries S.A. can be an abbreviation of: * in Galician and European Portuguese (used in Portu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Advance Sigma
The Advance Sigma is a series of Swiss single-place, paragliders, designed and produced by Advance Thun of Thun.Bertrand, Noel; Rene Coulon; et al: ''World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2003-04'', page 10. Pagefast Ltd, Lancaster OK, 2003. ISSN 1368-485X Design and development The Sigma was designed as a cross country intermediate glider. The design has progressed through nine generations of models, the Sigma, Sigma 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9, each improving on the last. The models are each named for their rough wing area in square metres. Variants ;Sigma 5 23 :Small-sized model for lighter pilots. Its span wing has wing area of , 58 cells and the aspect ratio is 5.20:1. The pilot weight range is . The glider model is DHV 2 certified. ;Sigma 5 26 :Mid-sized model for medium-weight pilots. Its span wing has wing area of , 58 cells and the aspect ratio is 5.20:1. The pilot weight range is . The glider model is DHV 2 certified. ;Sigma 5 28 :Large-sized model for heavier pilots. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Advance Pi
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Advance Iota
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Bivouac Flying
Paragliding is the recreational and competitive adventure sport of flying paragliders: lightweight, free-flying, foot-launched glider aircraft with no rigid primary structure. The pilot sits in a harness or lies supine in a cocoon-like 'pod' suspended below a fabric wing. Wing shape is maintained by the suspension lines, the pressure of air entering vents in the front of the wing, and the aerodynamic forces of the air flowing over the outside. Despite not using an engine, paraglider flights can last many hours and cover many hundreds of kilometres, though flights of one to two hours and covering some tens of kilometres are more the norm. By skillful exploitation of sources of lift, the pilot may gain height, often climbing to altitudes of a few thousand metres. History In 1966, Canadian Domina Jalbert was granted a patent for a ''multi-cell wing type aerial device—''"a wing having a flexible canopy constituting an upper skin and with a plurality of longitudinally extendi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red Bull X-Alps
The Red Bull X-Alps is a paragliding race in which athletes must hike or fly 1,200 km across the Alps. It first launched in 2003 and has since taken place every other year. Around 30 athletes take part and must navigate their way via a predetermined set of turn points that vary with each race. Every kilometer must be covered either on foot or by paraglider. Teams consist of one athlete and one official supporter, whose role it is to provide technical advice, mental and nutritional support. The route traditionally covers the Alpine regions of Austria, Germany, Italy, Switzerland and France before ending in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France. The 2017 route featured Slovenia as well. Athletes didn't fly into Monaco due to airspace restrictions, and the term "Monaco" has been used solely for marketing purposes. That is one reason why in the tenth edition (2021) the route has been changed to not include Monaco but rather return to Austria. The exact route is normally unveiled in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Advance Bi Beta
The Advance Bi Beta (sometimes written as BiBeta) is a tandem two-place paraglider, designed and produced by Advance Thun of Thun, Switzerland.Bertrand, Noel; Rene Coulon; et al: ''World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2003-04'', page 10. Pagefast Ltd, Lancaster OK, 2003. ISSN 1368-485X Design and development The Beta was designed as a two-place flight training glider for introducing new student pilots to the sport. The Beta has undergone continuous development, starting with the original Beta, through the Beta 2, 3, 4 and 5 models. Variants ;Bi Beta :Tandem two place glider, initial model. ;Bi Beta 2/3 :Tandem two place glider sold in the mid-2000s. ;Bi Beta 4 :Tandem two place glider sold in the late-2000s. ;BiBeta 5 :Tandem two place glider sold in the mid-2010s. Its wing has an area of and an aspect ratio of 5.2:1. The pilot weight range is . Specifications (BiBeta 5) References External links * {{Advance aircraft Beta Beta (, ; uppercase , lowercase , or cur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Advance Omega
The Advance Omega is a series of Swiss single-place, paragliders, designed and produced by Advance Thun of Thun.Bertrand, Noel; Rene Coulon; et al: ''World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2003-04'', page 10. Pagefast Ltd, Lancaster OK, 2003. ISSN 1368-485X Design and development The Omega was designed as the competition glider in the company's line. The design has progressed through many generations of models, from the original Omega, through the Omega 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 to the Omega XAlps, each improving on the last. The models are each named for their rough wing area in square metres. The Omega XAlps variant was developed as a specially lightened model, for cross country bivouac flying, involving flying, camping and hiking. Operational history The Omega XAlps was flown by Chrigel Maurer and Sebastian Huber in the 2015 Red Bull X-Alps competition. They flew over seven days and placed first and second respectively. Variants ;Omega 5 24 :Small-sized model for lighter pilots. Its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Advance Epsilon
The Advance Epsilon is a family of Swiss single-place paragliders, designed and produced by Advance Thun of Thun.Bertrand, Noel; Rene Coulon; et al: ''World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2003-04'', page 10. Pagefast Ltd, Lancaster OK, 2003. ISSN 1368-485X Design and development The Epsilon was designed as a basic-intermediate glider intended for thermalling flight. The design has progressed through nine generations of models, the Epsilon, Epsilon 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 each improving on the last. The models are each named for their rough wing area in square metres. Variants ;Epsilon 4 24 :Small-sized model for lighter pilots. Its span wing has wing area of , 46 cells and the aspect ratio is 4.92:1. The pilot weight range is . The glider model is DHV 1-2 certified. ;Epsilon 4 26 :Mid-sized model for medium-weight pilots. Its span wing has wing area of , 46 cells and the aspect ratio is 4.92:1. The pilot weight range is . The glider model is DHV 1-2 certified. ;Epsilon 4 28 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thun
, neighboring_municipalities= Amsoldingen, Heiligenschwendi, Heimberg, Hilterfingen, Homberg, Schwendibach, Spiez, Steffisburg, Thierachern, Uetendorf, Zwieselberg , twintown = , website = www.thun.ch Thun (french: Thoune) is a town and a municipality in the administrative district of Thun in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. It is located where the Aare flows out of Lake Thun (Thunersee), southeast of Bern. the municipality has almost about 45,000 inhabitants and around 80,000 live in the agglomeration. Besides tourism, machine and precision instrument engineering, the largest garrison in the country, the food industry, armaments and publishing are of economic importance to Thun. The official language of Thun is (the Swiss variety of Standard) German, but the main spoken language is the local variant of the Alemannic Swiss German dialect. History The area of what is now Thun was inhabited since the Neolithic age (mid-3rd millennium BC). Durin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Advance Alpha
The Advance Alpha is a family of Swiss single-place, paragliders, designed and produced by Advance Thun of Thun.Bertrand, Noel; Rene Coulon; et al: ''World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2003-04'', page 10. Pagefast Ltd, Lancaster, Oklahoma, 2003. ISSN 1368-485X Design and development The Alpha was designed as a beginner glider for new pilots. The design has progressed through six generations of models, the Alpha, Alpha 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6, each improving on the last. The model sizes are each named for their rough wing area in square metres. Variants ;Alpha 3 24 :Small-sized model for lighter pilots. Its span wing has wing area of , 35 cells and the aspect ratio is 4.65:1. The pilot weight range is . The glider model is DHV 1 certified. ;Alpha 3 26 :Mid-sized model for medium-weight pilots. Its span wing has wing area of , 35 cells and the aspect ratio is 4.65:1. The pilot weight range is . The glider model is DHV 1 certified. ;Alpha 3 28 :Large-sized model for heavier pilots. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
