Windtech Parapentes ( en, Windtech Paragliders, italic=yes) is a Spanish

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. ...

based in

Gijón Gijón () or () is a city and municipality in north-western Spain. It is the largest city and municipality by population in the autonomous community of Asturias. It is located on the coast of the Cantabrian Sea in the Bay of Biscay, in the cent ...

and founded in 1994. The company specializes in the design and manufacture of

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 ...

s in the form of ready-to-fly aircraft, as well as rescue

parachute A parachute is a device used to slow the motion of an object through an atmosphere by creating drag or, in a ram-air parachute, aerodynamic lift. A major application is to support people, for recreation or as a safety device for aviators, who ...

s.Bertrand, Noel; Rene Coulon; et al: ''World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2003-04'', page 36. Pagefast Ltd, Lancaster UK, 2003. By the mid-2000s the company had established a complete line of paragliders, including the two-place

tandem Tandem, or in tandem, is an arrangement in which a team of machines, animals or people are lined up one behind another, all facing in the same direction. The original use of the term in English was in ''tandem harness'', which is used for two ...

Bantoo and the beginner

Coral Corals are marine invertebrates within the class Anthozoa of the phylum Cnidaria. They typically form compact colonies of many identical individual polyps. Coral species include the important reef builders that inhabit tropical oceans and sec ...

for

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 ...

, the beginner to intermediate Tonic, the sports intermediate

Pulsar A pulsar (from ''pulsating radio source'') is a highly magnetized rotating neutron star that emits beams of electromagnetic radiation out of its magnetic poles. This radiation can be observed only when a beam of emission is pointing toward Ea ...

, the advanced intermediate Quarx, the advanced cross country Syncro and the competition

Nitro Nitro may refer to: Chemistry *Nitrogen, a chemical element and a gas except at very low temperatures, with which many compounds are formed: **Nitro compound, an organic compound containing one or more nitro functional groups, -NO2 **Nitroalkene, ...

glider.

Aircraft

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Summary of aircraft built by Windtech Parapentes: * Windtech Altair * Windtech Ambar * Windtech Arial * Windtech Bali * Windtech Bantoo * Windtech Cargo * Windtech Combat * Windtech Coral * Windtech Evo * Windtech Fenix * Windtech Honey * Windtech Impulse *

Windtech Kali Windtech Parapentes ( en, Windtech Paragliders, italic=yes) is a Spanish aircraft manufacturer based in Gijón and founded in 1994. The company specializes in the design and manufacture of paragliders in the form of ready-to-fly aircraft, as we ...

* Windtech Kinetik * Windtech Loop *

Windtech Nitro The Windtech Nitro is a Spanish single-place paraglider that was designed and produced by Windtech Parapentes of Gijón. It is now out of production.Bertrand, Noel; Rene Coulon; et al: ''World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2003-04'', page 36. ...

* Windtech Pulsar * Windtech Quarx * Windtech Ru-bi * Windtech Serak * Windtech Silex * Windtech Spiro * Windtech Syncro * Windtech Tactic * Windtech Tecno * Windtech Tempest * Windtech Tempus *

Windtech Tonic The Windtech Tonic is a Spanish single-place paraglider that was designed and produced by Windtech Parapentes of Gijón. It is now out of production.Bertrand, Noel; Rene Coulon; et al: ''World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2003-04'', page 36. P ...

* Windtech Tuareg * Windtech Tucan * Windtech Windy * Windtech Zenith *

Windtech Zephyr Windtech Parapentes ( en, Windtech Paragliders, italic=yes) is a Spanish aircraft manufacturer based in Gijón and founded in 1994. The company specializes in the design and manufacture of paragliders in the form of ready-to-fly aircraft, as we ...

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