The United States Hang Gliding and Paragliding Association maintains these web pages for the purpose of preserving information about the HGMA airworthiness certification program, including a list of hang gliders certified under the airworthiness standards of the HGMA. At the end of the contract, they continued to produce the Sensor under the name of Seedwings Europe without the agreement of Bob Trampenau. The HGMA was dissolved in June of 2022 as a result of the decline in activity in hang glider manufacturing. During that time, four hundred and sixty-five documentation packages and addendums were submitted to and accepted by the HGMA.
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Over its forty-five year history, the HGMA administered a highly evolved set of standards that constitute a current industry consensus definition of what represents airworthiness in a hang glider, and how to test for and document it. Wings - Bedford (New Hampshire) - Ap1050. With Quality as Top Priority Albatross Flying Systems Has Created the Vital. Icaro2000 is the only hang glider manufacturer in the world to manufacture, for all its topless models, a central crossbar junction block in Ergal 7075, made by the digitally-controlled machining of a solid block. He has been Involved with Designing and Flying Hang Gliders and Powered Hang Gliders since 1986. We specialize in the Manufacture of Sport Aviation Products. Although the first few attempts to develop and administer such standards were not successful, eventually a viable manufacturers association came into being and meaningful hang glider design and testing standards were developed, based initially on the FAA standards for certifying light airplanes. Albatross Flying Systems was established in November of 1999. The beginnings of the HGMA date back to December of 1973, when a group of hang glider manufacturers met in Westchester, California to talk about forming an industry association and developing construction standards for hang gliders. Dick met some of the avant-garde flyers and manufacturers at this event. Between 19, the Hang Glider Manufacturers Association was an international association of hang glider manufacturers that administered a set of industry consensus airworthiness testing standards for hang gliders. The modern hang glider pilot maintains his or her health and safety by logic.