Walkerjet is a
Czech aircraft manufacturer
An aerospace manufacturer is a company or individual involved in the various aspects of designing, building, testing, selling, and maintaining aircraft, aircraft parts, missiles, rockets, or spacecraft. Aerospace is a high technology industry.
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based in
Tatiná
Tatiná is a municipality and village in Plzeň-North District in the Plzeň Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 300 inhabitants.
Tatiná lies approximately north-west of Plzeň and west of Prague
Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Pr ...
and founded by Victor Procházka. The company specializes 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
microlight category.
[Bertrand, Noel; Rene Coulon; et al: ''World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2003-04'', page 76. Pagefast Ltd, Lancaster UK, 2003. ISSN 1368-485X]
The company was founded in 1998 by Procházka after he had been involved in
ultralight aviation
Ultralight aviation (called microlight aviation in some countries) is the flying of lightweight, 1- or 2-seat fixed-wing aircraft. Some countries differentiate between weight-shift control and conventional three-axis control aircraft with ailer ...
since the late 1980s. The company was initially located in
Třemošná
Třemošná (; german: Tschemoschna) is a town in Plzeň-North District in the Plzeň Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 5,100 inhabitants.
Administrative parts
Village of Záluží is an administrative part of Třemošná.
Geography
Tře ...
, but in 2005 the company moved into a new building in Tatiná, a small village located close to
Plzeň
Plzeň (; German and English: Pilsen, in German ) is a city in the Czech Republic. About west of Prague in western Bohemia, it is the Statutory city (Czech Republic), fourth most populous city in the Czech Republic with about 169,000 inhabita ...
.
By the mid-2000s the company offered a wide range of paramotors, including the Swedish
Radne Raket 120
The Radne Raket 120 ( en, Rocket) is a lightweight single cylinder, two-stroke aircraft engine used for powered hang gliders, paramotors and ultralight aircraft that is built by Radne Motor AB of Haninge, Sweden.Bayerl, Robby; Martin Berkemeie ...
-powered
Walkerjet Spider, the German
Solo 210-powered
Super Hawk and the
Simon series all powered by the Italian
Simonini Mini 2 Plus
The Simonini Mini 2 Plus is an Italian aircraft engine, designed and produced by Simonini Racing of San Dalmazio di Serramazzoni for use in ultralight aircraft.Bayerl, Robby; Martin Berkemeier; et al: ''World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2011 ...
engine. The company also once built a dedicated
flight training
Flight training is a course of study used when learning to pilot an aircraft. The overall purpose of primary and intermediate flight training is the acquisition and honing of basic airmanship skills.
Flight training can be conducted under a str ...
paramotor, the
Walkerjet Schoolboy with a reinforced chassis.
The company later designed its own ''Fly'' engine series and its more recent paramotor designs, the
Walkerjet XC 100 evo and the
XC 200 evo, use these in place of the earlier powerplants from other manufacturers.
Aircraft
References
External links
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Aircraft manufacturers of the Czech Republic and Czechoslovakia
Ultralight aircraft
Paramotors
Czech companies established in 1998
Manufacturing companies established in 1998