Winds Italia () was an Italian aircraft manufacturer based in Bologna that was founded by Canadian hang glider champion pilot Randy Haney. The company specialized in the design and manufacture of paramotors and powered hang glider harnesses in the form of ready-to-fly aircraft for the US FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles rules and the European microlight category.Bertrand, Noel; Rene Coulon; et al: World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2003-04, page 77. Pagefast Ltd, Lancaster UK, 2003.
The company seems to have been founded about 2001 and gone out of business in 2008, when production of its two models was passed to Flugsport Vetterl GmbH und Co. KG of Schwarzenfeld, Germany.
Winds Italia built a powered hang glider harness, the Raven, employing the single cylinder Radne Raket 120 engine of . The company produced the Airwalker paramotor and later the Orbiter series, introduced in 2003 and which replaced the Airwalker in production. The Orbiter offered both the Raket engine and the higher-powered Orbiter XP model with a Cors'Air M21Y engine.
Aircraft
Summary of aircraft built by Winds Italia Model name First flight Number built Type Winds Italia Raven 2001 powered hang glider harness Winds Italia Airwalker 2001 paramotor Winds Italia Orbiter 2003 paramotor
References
External links Company website archives on Archive.org