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Europe Sails Special Dimensione

type of aircraft

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 9, 2025
Entity authorityQ17012585
Source-derived summary

The Europe Sails Special Dimensione is an Austrian high-wing, single-place, hang glider that was designed and produced by Europe Sails.

Design and development

The Special Dimensione was produced in the early 2000s, in one size only with a wing area of 14.5 m2 (156 sq ft).

The aircraft is made from aluminum tubing, with the wing covered in Dacron sailcloth. Its 10.1 m (33.1 ft) span wing has a nose angle of 126° and the pilot hook-in weight range is 65 to 95 kg (143.3 to 209.4 lb). The design was certified as DHV class 2-3 and sold for €2778 in 2003.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Europe Sails Special Dimensione” is type of aircraft. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Europe, Sails and Special, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2003—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Europe, Sails and Special is the immediate research focus.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 9, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q17012585. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2003.

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This entry incorporates text from Europe Sails Special Dimensione” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.