Büttner Propeller, also known as Gerald Büttner - Obernkirchen, is a German
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 indust ...
based in
Obernkirchen
Obernkirchen () is a town in the district of Schaumburg, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated approximately 8 km southwest of Stadthagen, and 15 km east of Minden.
Obernkirchen is a small town in the shadows of the Bückeberg, a h ...
and founded by Gerald Büttner. The company specializes in the design and manufacture of
powered parachutes,
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
aircraft propellers
An aircraft propeller, also called an airscrew,Beaumont, R.A.; ''Aeronautical Engineering'', Odhams, 1942, Chapter 13, "Airscrews". converts rotary motion from an engine or other power source into a swirling slipstream which pushes the propeller ...
. The aircraft are ready-to-fly designs for the European
Fédération Aéronautique Internationale 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 ...
and categories.
[Bertrand, Noel; Rene Coulon; et al: ''World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2003-04'', pages 66 and 80. Pagefast Ltd, Lancaster UK, 2003. ISSN 1368-485X]
The company has a line of paramotors (''Rucksackmotoren'') called the
Büttner Crazy Plane and a line of powered parachutes (''Gleitschirm Trikes'') called the
Büttner Crazy Flyer. At one time it also produced the
Büttner Easy Plane.
Büttner also builds two-bladed carved wooden and two, three and four bladed plastic
ultralight aircraft propellers.
Aircraft
See also
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List of aircraft propeller manufacturers
References
External links
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Aircraft manufacturers of Germany
Ultralight aircraft
Homebuilt aircraft
Paramotors
Powered parachutes