Jojo Wings (also styled as JOJOWINGS and Jojo Wing) is a

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based in

Roudnice nad Labem Roudnice nad Labem (; ) is a town in Litoměřice District in the Ústí nad Labem Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 13,000 inhabitants. The town centre is well preserved and is protected by law as an urban monument zone. A steel road b ...

. The company specializes in the design and manufacture of

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s and parachutes in the form of ready-to-fly aircraft. The company also makes

parafoil kite Foil kites are soft Kite flying, kites based on the design of the parafoil. They consist of a number of cells running fore to aft, some or all of which are open at the front to allow air to inflate the kite so it takes on an airfoil, aerofoil sect ...

s.Bertrand, Noel; Rene Coulon; et al: ''World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2003-04'', page 21. Pagefast Ltd, Lancaster UK, 2003.

History

Founded in 1992, the company first sent competitors to the

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in 1993. The company quickly expanded into canopies for

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and a number of National and European Champions flew to success on their wings. By 1994 they were building kite wings for snow and land use, with two snow board World Champions using Jojo kites. In 1994 the company also expended into constructing parachutes for civil and later military use. By the mid-2000s the company had a range of paragliders that included the performance

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, the intermediate Yoki and the two-place Quest Bi for flight training. Reviewer Noel Bertrand noted the very low prices of the company's paragliders in a 2003 review, saying "the prices are very interesting". By 2016 the company was only building one paraglider, the

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and five models of parachute, the HOP 330, Sonic,

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, XF15 and Base.

Aircraft

Summary of aircraft built by Jojo Wings: *

Jojo Addiction The Jojo Addiction is a Czech single-place paraglider designed and produced by Jojo Wings of Roudnice nad Labem that is out of production.Bertrand, Noel; Rene Coulon; et al: ''World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2003-04'', page 21. Pagefast Ltd ...

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* Jojo Quest Bi * Jojo Speedy *

Jojo Yoki The Jojo Yoki is a Czech single-place paraglider that was designed and produced by Jojo Wings of Roudnice nad Labem Roudnice nad Labem (; ) is a town in Litoměřice District in the Ústí nad Labem Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 13 ...

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* {{Jojo Wings aircraft Aircraft manufacturers of the Czech Republic and Czechoslovakia Ultralight aircraft Parachuting Powered parachutes Paragliders Kites Kitesurfing Manufacturing companies established in 1992 1992 establishments in Czechoslovakia