The Flight Design Twin is a German two-place,
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 ...
that was designed by Michaël Hartmann and Stefan Müller and produced by
Flight Design
Flight Design General Aviation GmbH (formerly Flight Design GmbH) is a German aircraft design company and aircraft manufacturer, formerly based in Leinfelden-Echterdingen and Kamenz and now in Eisenach.Bertrand, Noel; Rene Coulon; et al: ''W ...
of
Landsberied
Landsberied is a municipality in the district of Fürstenfeldbruck in Bavaria in Germany
Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after R ...
. It is now out of production.
[Bertrand, Noel; Rene Coulon; et al: ''World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2003-04'', page 16. Pagefast Ltd, Lancaster OK, 2003. ISSN 1368-485X]
Design and development
The aircraft was designed as a
tandem glider 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 ...
. Test flying was carried out by factory
test pilot
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Richard Bergmann.
The aircraft's span wing has 72 cells, a wing area of and an
aspect ratio of 5.3:1. The pilot weight range is . The glider is DHV 1-2 Biplace certified.
The design progressed through three generations of models, the Twin, Twin 2 and Twin 3, each improving on the last.
Specifications (Twin 3)
References
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Twin
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Paragliders