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Polynesian Adventure Tours was founded in 1977 by Bob George and Don Brown, with a small fleet of vans. The founders sold the company in 1986, to Atak Management Corporation, owned by Japanese-American businessman, Shig Katayama. [3] Don Brown left the company and Bob George remained as Director of Sales.
Paragliding is the recreational and competitive adventure sport of flying paragliders: lightweight, free-flying, foot-launched glider aircraft with no rigid primary structure. [1] The pilot sits in a harness or in a cocoon-like 'pod' suspended below a fabric wing. Wing shape is maintained by the suspension lines, the pressure of air entering ...
In the early 1990s, the acquisition by the company of the former Quest Outdoor Adventure programme, and of a number of centres operated by competitors, resulted in a considerable expansion in the schools' adventure market in the UK and France. In 1993, the company entered the school ski market with the acquisitions of Ski Europe and Ski Wessex.
The company specializes in the design and manufacture of paragliders in the form of ready-to-fly aircraft. [1] [2] [3] The company CEO is Mike Cavanagh, while gliders are designed by hang gliding and paragliding world champion pilot Robbie Whittall. [1] [4] The company produces a complete line of paragliders.
Cristiano Ronaldo is the most-followed individual user on Facebook with 170 million followers. Shakira is the most-followed female individual user on Facebook with 123 million followers. This article contains a list of the top 50 accounts with the largest number of followers on the social media platform Facebook .
Tom Anderson, who co-founded MySpace in August 2003 at just 32 years old, was recently spotted at Costa Mesa Country Club in Southern California. “Tom is living all our dreams,” another ...
The company was founded in 1989 and originally located in Innsbruck. In 2010 the company relocated its headquarters to Terfens. By 2016 the company had 110 employees, including 95 in the Mecsek Ballon KFT Hungarian production plant in Pécs and 15 in Terfens. [2] The company's first designer was Hannes Papesh.
The Red Bull X-Alps is a paragliding race in which athletes must hike or fly 1,200 km across the Alps. It first launched in 2003 and has since taken place every other year