Firebird Skydiving

Firebird Skydiving GmbH
Privately held company
Industry Aerospace
Headquarters Bitburg, Germany
Products Parachutes, paragliders
Website www.flyfirebird.com

Firebird Skydiving GmbH (formerly Firebird Sky Sports AG) is a German parachute and former aircraft manufacturer initially based in Füssen and now based in Bitburg. The company specializes in the design and manufacture of parachutes and at one time also constructed paragliders and parafoil kites.[1][2][3]

Once one of the world's leading manufacturers of paragliders,[1] the company stopped producing them in about 2013 to concentrate on parachutes for military and civil applications instead, along with reserve parachutes.[4]

In the mid-2000s, as Firebird Sky Sports AG, the company produced a range of 11 different models of paragliders, including the beginner Firebird Sub-One and Z-One, the intermediate Grid and Hornet, the competition Debute and Tribute as well as the two-place Choice Zip Bi, that incorporated zippers to reduce its wing area.[1][5]

The company achieved world championship status in 1991 when one of its designs was flown by the British paraglider pilot Robbie Whittall to victory in the World Paragliding Championships.[1]

Aircraft

Firebird Hornet Sport

Summary of aircraft built by Firebird:

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Bertrand, Noel; Rene Coulon; et al: World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2003-04, page 16. Pagefast Ltd, Lancaster UK, 2003. ISSN 1368-485X
  2. ↑ "Contact". flyfirebird.com. Retrieved 12 May 2016.
  3. ↑ "Firebird - Skydiver's and Paraglider's Favorite". flyfirebird.com. Archived from the original on 17 February 2008. Retrieved 12 May 2016.
  4. ↑ "Internet Archive Wayback Machine". archive.org. Retrieved 12 May 2016.
  5. ↑ "New Paragliders / Archive - January 2004". ojovolador.com. Retrieved 13 May 2016.
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