The Air-Sport Chinook is a Polish single-place
paraglider
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 'po ...
that was designed and produced by
Air-Sport of
Zakopane
Zakopane ( Podhale Goral: ''Zokopane'') is a town in the extreme south of Poland, in the southern part of the Podhale region at the foot of the Tatra Mountains. From 1975 to 1998, it was part of Nowy Sącz Voivodeship; since 1999, it has been par ...
. It is now out of production.
[Bertrand, Noel; Rene Coulon; et al: ''World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2003-04'', page 11. Pagefast Ltd, Lancaster OK, 2003. ISSN 1368-485X]
The glider is also referred to as the Chinooka in
Polish
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* Anything from or related to Poland, a country in Europe
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*Polish brothers (Mark Polish and Michael Polish, born 1970), American twin screenwr ...
.
Design and development
The Chinook is named after
a local wind found in North America. It was designed as a cross country glider and was noted in 2003 as being very competitively priced.
The models are each named for their wing area in square metres.
Variants
;Chinook
:Original version
;Chinook 2 26
:Improved small-sized model for lighter pilots, with a wing area of .
;Chinook 2 28
:Improved mid-sized model for medium-weight pilots, with a wing area of .
Specifications (Chinook 28)
References
{{Air-Sport aircraft
Chinook
Paragliders