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Villinger Skye / Airwave Skye

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Skye I

The Skye was taken over by Airwave when the Villiger company closed.

A floater hang glider circa 1998 which could be flown supine or prone. The Skye was manufactured at the Seedwings Europe factory.

Wing area: 18.3 sq.m
Pilot weight: 70-125 kg
Wing span: 5.4 m
Nose Angle: 120 deg
Aspect ratio: 9.95
Price (1998) 6500 DM

Skye 193
Wing area: 18.3 m²
Wing span: 9.95 m
Aspect ratio: 5.4
Hang glider weight: 22 kg
Minimum pilot weight: 70 kg
Maximum pilot weight: 125 kg
Packed length: 6 m
Packed length short: 3.8 m
Nose angle: 120°

Villiers

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France
Founded late 1924 at Meudon. Products included Type 2 AMC2 fighter, and two prototypes of Type 4 HBA2 twinfloat biplane for armed reconnaissance; Type 24 night-fighters for Aeronautique Maritime; last design was Type 26 twin-float cabin monoplane. Company closed down in 1930; factory taken over following year by Potez.

Villard 1914 helicopter

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Early in 1914 Villard built a second model with a frame made of steel tubes. An Anzani 100hp radial engine was mounted on top of a central tripod structure to which the rotor blades were attached. Movements of the pilot’s seat enabled the aircraft’s centre of gravity to be shifted. There was also a small tail rotor 60 centimetres in diameter.
Villard ‘s tests were brought to a swift end by the German invasion of Belgium.

Villard 1913 helicopter

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In 1913 Henry Villard, who had previously performed some direct lift experiments in France, carried out various trials in a balloon hangar near Brussels with an aircraft which he had designed. It was a lifting device 2.7 metres in diameter, driven directly by a 100hp type 1912 Anzani engine. The device weighed 400 kilos, and during its tests the rear wheels left the ground.