Air Sylphe
Air Sylphe was a French aircraft manufacturer based in Villereau, Nord. The company specialized in the design and manufacture of powered parachutes in the form of ready-to-fly aircraft for the US FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles and the European Fédération Aéronautique Internationale microlight categories.[1]
| Privately held company | |
| Industry | Aerospace |
| Defunct | circa late 2007 |
| Headquarters | |
| Products | Powered parachutes |
The company seems to have gone out of business in the end of 2007.[2]
The company built a line of single and two-seat powered parachutes, all using industrial ducted fans for propellers. Their designs included the single seat Air Sylphe 447 and the two-seat Air Sylphe Bi 582, which was noted as being produced in a special version for wheelchair aviators.[1]
Aircraft
| Model name | First flight | Number built | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| Air Sylphe 447 | 2000s | single-seat powered parachute | |
| Air Sylphe Bi 582 | 2004 | two-seat powered parachute | |
gollark: Not as much as it would be if one entity just did *all* economic planning.
gollark: It's not an infrastructure problem, it's a this-is-computationally-very-hard problem, and a horribly-centralizes-power problem, and a bad-incentives-to-be-efficient problem, and a responding-to-local-information problem.
gollark: And in general lots of things can be done better, or *at all*, if you have a giant plant somewhere producing resources for big fractions of the world.
gollark: Some resources (lithium and such are big issues nowadays) only exist in a few places, so you have to ship from there.
gollark: This also doesn't seem practical.
References
- Bertrand, Noel; Rene Coulon; et al: World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2003-04, page 79. Pagefast Ltd, Lancaster UK, 2003. ISSN 1368-485X
- Archive.org (2 February 2011). "Archives of www.air-sylphe.com". Retrieved 26 May 2015.
External links
- Company website archives on Archive.org
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