Company type | Privately held company |
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Industry | Aerospace |
Founded | 1998 |
Founder | Gin Seok Song |
Headquarters | , |
Products | Paragliders |
Website | www |
Gin Gliders Inc. is a South Korean aircraft manufacturer based in Yongin, founded by competition pilot Gin Seok Song in 1998. The company specializes in the design and manufacture of paragliders in the form of ready-to-fly aircraft. [1] [2]
The company's paragliders are designed by Gin Seok Song and Robert Graham. [3]
The company has produced a wide variety of paragliders, including the competition Gin Boomerang, the intermediate Bolero Plus, Gangster, Nomad and Oasis, as well as the two-place Bongo. [1]
Summary of aircraft built by Gin Gliders:
A boomerang is a curved wooden throwing implement.
Bolero is a Cuban genre of song developed in the late 19th century.
A nomad is a member of a people, or species, that moves from place to place.
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