Reflex Paramoteur ( en,
Paramotor) was a French
aircraft manufacturer
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founded by Dominique Cholou and his son Ronan Cholou and based in
Chatou
Chatou () is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France. Chatou is a part of the affluent suburbs of western Paris and is on the northwest side of the Seine river about from the city's center.
Histo ...
. The company specialized in the design and manufacture of
paramotors
Powered paragliding, also known as paramotoring or PPG, is a form of ultralight aviation where the pilot wears a back-pack motor (a paramotor) which provides enough thrust to take off using a paraglider. It can be launched in still air, and on ...
in the form of ready-to-fly aircraft for the US
FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles
Ultralight aircraft in the United States are much smaller and lighter than ultralight aircraft as defined by all other countries.
In the United States, ultralights are described as "ultralight vehicles" and not as aircraft. They are not requ ...
rules and the European
Fédération Aéronautique Internationale
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microlight category.
[Bertrand, Noel; Rene Coulon; et al: ''World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2003-04'', page 74. Pagefast Ltd, Lancaster UK, 2003. ISSN 1368-485X]
The company seems to have been founded before 2001 and gone out of business in about 2010.
The company produced a range of paramotors, including the mid-2000s
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J 160,
J 320,
Model S,
Solo Elec and the later
Classic,
Dynamic
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Physics and engineering
* Dynamics (mechanics)
** Aerodynamics, the study of the motion of air
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and
Reflex Top Box.
Aircraft
References
External links
Company website archiveson
Archive.org
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Defunct aircraft manufacturers of France
Ultralight aircraft
Powered parachutes
Paramotors