Airtime Products was an Australian

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based in

Airlie Beach, Queensland Airlie Beach is a coastal locality in the Whitsunday Region of Queensland, Australia. In the , Airlie Beach had a population of 1,208 people. Geography Airlie Beach is one of many departure points for the Great Barrier Reef. Cruise ships visi ...

. 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 ...

and

powered hang glider A foot-launched powered hang glider (FLPHG), also called powered harness, nanolight, or hangmotor, is a powered hang gliding, hang glider harness with a internal combustion engine, motor and propeller (aircraft), propeller in pusher configuratio ...

s 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 req ...

rules as well as the European and Australian

microlight 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 aile ...

categories.Bertrand, Noel; Rene Coulon; et al: ''World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2003-04'', page 63. Pagefast Ltd, Lancaster UK, 2003. ISSN 1368-485X The company was active in the mid-2000s but by 2015 had gone out of business. The company produced a range of paramotors, including the

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series. These were originally powered by the Radne Raket 120, but were under-powered and that powerplant was replaced by the Cors'Air M21Y and

Per Il Volo Top 80 The Per Il Volo Top 80 is an Italian single cylinder, two-stroke aircraft engine designed and produced by Per Il Volo of Galliera Veneta for powered paragliding. It was the first purpose-designed paramotor engine.Cliche, Andre: ''Ultralight Air ...

instead. The company's paramotor designs were noted for their four-part chassis that can split apart for transport. The Airtime Explorer powered hang glider uses the

two-stroke A two-stroke (or two-stroke cycle) engine is a type of internal combustion engine that completes a power cycle with two strokes (up and down movements) of the piston during one power cycle, this power cycle being completed in one revolution of ...

, single cylinder Radne Raket 120 of , and fitted with a 3.5:1 ratio

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quite successfully.

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{{Reflist Defunct aircraft manufacturers of Australia Ultralight aircraft Powered hang gliders Powered parachutes Paramotors