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Well, immediately I knew what I was going to do next forty years!”, he illustrates smiling his former spontaneous starting a business. At home I made a few parachutes improved in this way on my sewing machine Veritas for them and they gave me a used Peugeot car for it. The Swiss then arrived as far as to Liberec to see how it was flying”, describes Milan Bábovka the origin of paraglider production in Galaxy. “I found out that they did not have a good profile – the glide was 3:1 at maximum, and thus I made it a little better on the board and with a square – that time there was no computer – and in the same way then all my parachutes. Matějčka – the idea and the universal rocket engine, and Ing Bábovka – the construction of drawing system and new parachutes.īy the end of the eighties new opportunities appeared: while flying within the club exchange in Switzerland in 1988 Milan Bábovka together with Jiří Šubrt and Jan Janeček copied the first paraglider – Big at the parking place in Laussane. He was a phenomenal designer”, says Milan Bábovka about Mr. That’s also one of reasons why we have got where we are now. “In our company Jiří was sitting opposite at the table as a working pensioner for four years. At the time, this was the domain of the Russians, Americans and British. He had been the designer of the catapult seat for the Czech-built, Albatros L- 39 training jet. Matějčka, a notable Czech aviation constructor started to work for Galaxy. Galaxy produced 150 these systems till 1994. After 1989 they already started to produce their own canopies and thus first systems GBS-1 for a single and GBS-2 for a two-seater motor hang-glider appeared in cooperation with Petr Suchomel. “The advent of capitalism and all-day work in my own company was a pleasant change for me”,Īdmits now sixty-six years old Milan Bábovka who once started his business while studying university evening classes, supporting his family and flying….įirst ballistic rescue systems were developed in Galaxy on the basis of cartridge units from the MIG ejection seat where it was necessary to complete a counterbalance and shock absorber. The company got a firmer legal framework as late as in 1989 when a business licence was obtained and it is still valid today. The preparation of main parts was carried out at the friend Tonda Němeček and the final assembly at Milan Bábovka’s home.Ĭomponents were supplied by friends who also produced them themselves as they could and the usual means of payment was barter. Supplies of material from aircraft and other factories worked and the work got on, what today, perhaps, would not do.
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They did not already comply with the original purposes and speed limits stipulated, however, they were enough for the free and motorized hang-gliders flying with the speeds up to 80 km/hour. Parachutes (canopies with lines) were essentially used as discarded from Svazarm (Association for Cooperation with Army) or from the army, or from good friends. The company’s origins that is today one of the four largest world producers of ballistic rescue systems are dated to August 1984, a group of four to six friends from Deltaklub Liberec gathered around Milan Bábovka started to produce rescue systems in the same way as existing gliders or motor tricycles under them – self-help as far as possible besides employment.
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In 1984 – the first serial production of ballistic parachute systems had begun. In 1983, following the construction of the first two-seat trike, the development of a new ballistic rescue system followed. In that time a dozen of gliders saw the light of day and Milan Bábovka draw their designs by hand on the drawing board starting with school “single-covers” Standard and Wasp to continue with more powerful hang-gliders (Lightning, etc.).
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In the period of lack of aviation freedom he was pruning his way to hang-gliders using the method of trial and error and due to his dexterity together with technical skills he proceeded from copying different designs, through improving them to designing his own gliders. Similarly as many other enthusiasts in 1975 Milan Bábovka embarked on an unexplored path of building and flying hang-gliders. 30 YEARS OF GALAXY COMPANY After American BRS, the second biggest producer of rescue systems in the world.