Skylaunch Limited

02/03/2023

February 2023 - Another New Skylaunch at the SSA convention

We exhibited a two drum Evo winch at the SSA convention in Reno, Nevada, USA. This winch is owned by Fairfax O'Riley from Aerial Engagement in Scottsdale, Arizona who kindly towed it up to Reno. Fairfax and his team are starting a new gliding operation at Superior Airport (East of Phoenix).

02/03/2023

January 2023 - New Parachute and Cable End System

We have developed a new 'low metal' lightweight arrangement for all the cable end equipment. This is designed to increase safety at ant gliding site where there are additional hazards, ie footpaths, highways etc.

15/12/2022

November 2022 - New Winch Delivery

A new Skylaunch Evo 2 drum winch was delivered to Bognor Regis Gliding Club in England. This is the newest club in the UK, which is developing rapidly to offer excellent gliding.

16/11/2022

October 2022 - Electric Winch Delivery to Germany

Our latest all electric winch model was delivered to the Aeroclub von Lubeck at Grambeker Heide Airfield, replacing their troublesome ESW winch. Significant increases in launch heights and safety were obvious, resulting in excellent comments from the club memebers such as - "we will own the best winch in the World!"

27/10/2022

September 2022 - Another New Winch Delivery

We supplied a new Skylaunch Evo winch to the Bristol & Gloucester Gliding Club (Nympsfield) in England.

30/08/2022

Skylaunch latest Electric winch model controls during a glider launch. Lasham Gliding Society, August 2022 - click the photograph to follow the YouTube link

30/08/2022

Skylaunch Electric Winch, latest model, launching at Lasham Gliding Society, August 2022 - click the photograph to follow the YouTube link

25/08/2022

August 2022 - Women's World Gliding Championships

We were asked, by the organisers of the Women's World Gliding Championships, to exhibit and demonstrate our latest all electric winch at The Gliding Centre at Husbands Bothworth in England, who hosted the event. It was a great event, and many thanks to all the pilots that came to see us.

17/08/2022

Our latest electric winch will be launching this weekend at The Womens World Gliding Championships at 'The Gliding Centre', Husbands Bosworth Airfield. Please come and see us if you are interested. https://wwgc2022.co.uk/

10/08/2022

July 2022 - New Skyflier rotating winch system

We have designed and manufactured a new rotating landing deck platform with docking arm and winching systems for Zip World. To be used with their new airship attraction in North Wales.

10/08/2022

June 2022 - New electric retrieve winch

We are currently manufacturing a cordless electric version of our proven high speed cable retrieve winch system (28 years after the original model). This will help further reduce the emissions and carbon footprint for glider winch launching, as this system normally reduces the energy / fuel use by around 20% from vehicle retrieve systems. It also significantly increases launch rates and reduces airfield wear and damage.

30/06/2022

May 2022 - Electric winch launching

The latest electric Skylaunch is being tested at our local gliding club with excellent launches and happy pilots. It is shown here with one of the very early Skylaunch winches which is still working very well. Many thanks to Staffordshire Gliding Club for all their help.

30/06/2022

April 2022 - More special effects winching

The winch sold in January for use on the movie 'Mission Impossible 8' is now winching in many scenes on 'Fast and Furious 10', in ltay and Portugal. A second winch was also modified and shipped out to Italy to keep up with the very busy schedule, with kind permission of the club at RAF Shawbury.

28/04/2022

March 2022 - Latest all ELECTRIC version of Skylaunch Evo winch for Germany

This model is nearing completion before testing and delivery soon.

28/04/2022

February 2022 - A Skylaunch fully re-engineered Tost winch for the Japanese Defence Academy

The Defence Academy in Tokyo shipped their Tost winch to us for complete re-engineering, so it will now have similar performance to the existing Skylaunch 2 winch at thier airbase.

28/04/2022

16/03/2022

Entries to the Junior Nationals will open in the week of 14th March 2022. Please see details below. Entries to the 2 Seat Training will open in the week of 14th March 2022. Please see details below. Please contact us with any questions. Junior Nationals To fly in the Junior Nationals you will need y...

27/01/2022

January 2022 - Winch for film special effects

A fully re-engineered by Skylaunch winch was sold to a special effects company for some high speed scenes on a new big blockbuster movie. Sorry but details are classified at the moment.