Manufacturer

Little Wing Autogyros Inc

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1995-2009: 746 Highway 89 N, Mayflower, AR 72106, USA.

Ron Herron of Little Wing Autogyros Inc began involvement with gyros by building a Bensen B-8M in 1975. Became a little concerned about the continued problem of “Pushovers”, he sold the gyro and began to research the history of the Autogiro and found the original Autogiros flew for 10 years before anyone was ever killed in one.
Cierva had patented the concept of aligning the propeller thrustline with CG (For increased longitudinal stability) very early in the Autogiro’s development. The missing ingredient in the Bensen type gyro was the horizontal tail. The Autogiros of old had huge horizontal tails and tractor mounted propellers which were located in the center of aircraft drag and center of gravity. These aircraft were forgiving and pitch-stable. Herron “copied” Don Juan de la Cierva Codorniu…..the father of practical rotorcraft.
The first 2 prototypes utilized elevators for longitudinal (pitch) control. On these craft he locked the rotorhead in the fore-aft position and designed a means of trimming it for fine adjustments. Side-ways tilting of the head was used for lateral control. The first of these prototypes was the LW-1, built it from a wrecked Piper airplane fuselage. The rotor pylon was attached to the fuselage through four large isolation dampers, and a wide outrigger type landing gear with oleo struts. This aircraft was powered by a Continental 0-200 engine of 100 horsepower. Lateral control was accomplished by using push-pull cables directly connected to the control torque tube. Centrifugal flyweights were developed for the rotorhead to prevent the two-bladed rotor from flapping into the tail at low rotor speeds, and an automotive starter for a prerotator to start the blades.

Lisunov

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Design engineer Boris Lisunov was sent to the U.S.A. to study the Douglas DC-3 and prepare for production in the Soviet Union. Production under designation PS-84 began in 1939, entering service in the same year. In 1942 the PS-84 became known as the Li-2. The only Soviet wartime transport, it was used postwar by Aeroflot.

Lipnur Aircraft Industry / Lembagaindustri Penerbangan Nurtanio / Lembaga Persiapan Industri Penerbangan

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1961:
Departemen Angkatan
Udara
Reaublik
Indonesia

Lembaga Persiapan Industn Penerbangan
Husein Sastranegara
Air Force Base
Bandung

In 1953, the Indonesian Air Force began the development of a series of light combat and training aircraft at its research, development and production depot near Bandung.

The first was a single-seat light ground support aircraft named the Sikumbang, of which two prototypes were built.
It has been followed by the Belalang, a major conversion of the Piper L-4J, and an ultralight single-seater called the Kunang.

The Belalang was in production at the depot in 1961, which was renamed the Lembaga Persiapan Industri Penerbangan (Institute for the Preparation of an Aircraft Industry) in August 1961.

Formed at Bandang in 1966 from the Institute for Aero Industry Establishment. LIPNUR built a prototype series of light aircraft and from 1963 began production under license of the Polish PZL 104 utility aircraft under the name of Gelatik (Rice Bird). It was hoped to assemble DH Canada Otters at the Institute.

Also manufactures the LT-200, a modified Pazmany PL-2 light aircraft, for military and civil training.

Lioré-et-Olivier

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Etablissments LeO of Levallois-Perret was founded by Henri Olivier and Fernand Liore. Established as agricultural and industrial engineers in 1906, entered aviation 1908. Liore worked with Witzig-Liore-Dutheuil in 1912. Firm built Morane-Saulnier types before and during First World War, producing over 2,000. From 1916 built Sopwith 1-Strutter.
In 1921 started up airline Aeronavale (Societe Maritime de Transport Aeriens), and in 1922 began design and construction of civil and military flying-boats and bombers. An airliner derived from the 1924 bomber served Air Union. Four engined flying-boats developed up to Second World War. Cierva autogiros built under license. LeO 451, built 1939-1940, was best French bomber of period and used for research after war. The Argenteuil factory became part of SNCASE and the Rochefort plant part of SNCASO in 1936.

Linon

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The Linon brothers, André and Louis, were active in bicycle production around 1890 – 1900 in Ensival-lez-Verviers [Liège] and diversified into autocar building in the beginning of the 1900s. Their firm was named “Les Ateliers de Constructions Automobiles Linon”. The total production of cars was about 1800 before 1914.

After a visit to the Grande Semaine de Reims in 1909 Linon became interesting in flying and constructed a full scale model, which was exposed on the Brussels salon in the beginning of 1910.

The company disappeared during the German invasion.

Linke-Hoffmann Werke

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Germany
A railway engineering company of Hundsfeld, Breslau, which entered aviation in 1916 by repairing and building under license Roland and Albatros aircraft. In 1917 completed its first R-plane (R = Riesenflugzeug; giant aircraft) contract. The R.I. later crashed on test. The R.ll was the largest single-propeller aircraft ever built.

Lindstrand Balloons

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Lindstrand Balloons is a manufacturer of hot air balloons and other aerostats. The company was started by Swedish-born pilot and aeronautical designer Per Lindstrand in Oswestry, England, after he left Thunder & Colt in 1978. Lindstrand Balloons is known for its leading-edge engineering, which includes sophisticated testing and production facilities.

Of note, Lindstrand Balloons designed and built all of the hot air balloons flown by Per Lindstrand and Richard Branson on their record breaking flights first across the Atlantic Ocean in 1987 and then the Pacific Ocean in 1990. Lindstrand’s then designed and built three Rozière balloons that Per Lindstrand and Branson (and others, including aeronautical engineer Alex Ritchie, and adventurer, Steve Fossett) used in their unsuccessful attempts to circumnavigate the Earth by balloon. Per Lindstrand played an instrumental role in making these flights possible, and was pilot for all of them.

In the late-1990s, Cameron Balloons and its owner Don Cameron acquired two-thirds ownership of Lindstrand Balloons. Cameron bought the majority stake in Lindstrand Balloons from Rory McCarthy, a British industrialist associated with Richard Branson, who had invested in Lindstrand to support Branson’s series of record-setting balloon flights. The remaining third of the company is owned by its founder Per Lindstrand.

Despite Cameron’s ownership, Lindstrand Balloons continues to operate as an independent company with separate management and its own distinct designs and products. Per Lindstrand also independently operates a separate company, Lindstrand Technologies, which designs and builds gas balloons, innovative buildings, specialized aerospace equipment (including an advanced parachute for the Beagle 2 Mars-lander) and inflatable structures including aircraft hangars, plugs for fire-containment for road tunnels and flood prevention systems.

In 2011 Lindstrand Hot Air Balloons Ltd, based in Oswestry, Shropshire in the UK, had been building lighter-than-air craft on the same site for over 25 years and had its designs certified in 48 countries.

Lindstrand Balloons design special shaped envelopes. Once approved, computer aided technology turns the visual into a full working drawing which manufacture uses. All these envelopes are fully EASA approved.