Advance Paragliders (Also known as Advance Thun) is a Swiss aircraft manufacturer based in Thun. The company specializes in the design and manufacture of paragliders, harnesses, paragliding carrying bags and paragliding clothing.Bertrand, Noel; Rene Coulon; et al: World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2003-04, page 10. Pagefast Ltd, Lancaster UK, 2003.
Advance is a société anonyme, a share-held company.
The company is one of the world's leading manufacturers of paragliders. They produce a full line of paragliders ranging from training to competition gliders. Many of their glider models have been developed over successive generations of refinements. Gliders include the beginner Advance Alpha, the intermediate Epsilon and Sigma as well as the competition Omega and the two-place Advance Bi Beta.
The 2015 Red Bull X-Alps competition was won by Chrigel Maurer (first) and Sebastian Huber (second), both flying Advance Omega XAlps gliders. They flew over seven days of bivouac flying.
Aircraft
Summary of aircraft built by Advance Model name First flight Number built Type Advance Alpha paraglider Advance Bi Beta two-place paraglider Advance Epsilon paraglider Advance Iota paraglider Advance Omega paraglider Advance Pi paraglider Advance Sigma paraglider
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