MAC PARA Brand Guidelines: The Czech Paraglider Maker Registered in Rožnov in 1993

A registered date, and more than one partner.

MAC PARA is a Czech maker of paragliders, paramotor wings, harnesses and rescue parachutes, based in Rožnov pod Radhoštěm in the Zlín Region. The Czech public register gives its start exactly: the company was entered on 30 November 1993 as MAC PARA Technology spol. s r.o., a limited company, and the register shows no other name since. Its first listed business was making sports goods, alongside trading and sports instruction.

The founder usually named is Petr Reček, an engineer. That is the register’s spelling; Cross Country magazine prints Petr Recek, and English Wikipedia Peter Recek. The register adds detail to the one-founder version. Three partners were entered in 1993, among them Reček and Zdeněk Trčka, and both were entered as executives. Trčka’s executive entry ended in 1995. Reček’s has run from the first day to the present.

Ownership has stayed with individuals. The register now lists three individuals as partners, Reček with the largest share and Trčka still among them; no company appears as a partner, and Reček is the only executive listed. Cross Country called him “designer and company owner” in July 2020. Air MKG, MAC PARA’s importer for France, says the company has had no bankruptcy, takeover or change of ownership in more than thirty years. It also says Reček trained as a design engineer at Brno University of Technology, flew for the Czech national paragliding team, still runs the business and still draws the wings. Those details are the importer’s, not the register’s.

Eight generations of the Eden.

A long-running name in the catalogue is the Eden. Cross Country reported in July 2020 that the first Eden was released back in 1998, calling it a popular wing in the range since the early days. The magazine covered the Eden 4 in February 2009, the Eden 7 in 2020 and the Eden 8 in February 2025, when it described a high EN-B wing with a 2.5-line layout and winglets, aimed at regular pilots with cross-country ambitions.

English Wikipedia, citing the World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2003–04, says that by the mid-2000s the range ran from the intermediate Eden, Intox and Muse to the competition Magus and the two-seat Pasha. Those names have proved durable: the website today sells the Muse 5, the Pasha 7 and a Magus. Cross Country reported in October 2019 that MAC PARA had reintroduced the Magus as an EN-D two-liner. In March 2008 the magazine had noted that the pilots Aljaz and Urban Valic, then leaving the team, had won many competitions on Maguses.

Newer wings extend the range. The school wing Progress was launched in 2009 and, the magazine reported, designed in consultation with paragliding schools. The Aravis, reviewed in June 2023, replaced the one-size Outback as the company’s mountain wing, in six sizes. The Elixir, reported in July 2026, is a high EN-C two-liner that sits between the Verve and the Magus.

Paramotoring is a second line of business. Reviewing the Colorado in September 2018, Cross Country wrote that MAC PARA had a growing reputation for paramotor wings, especially in the United States. The current list includes Charger and Samurai wings, several marked DGAC, the French aviation authority, on the website, as well as trike wings. Harnesses and the Aegis rescue parachutes complete the catalogue.

Wings on the launch.

A paraglider has no bodywork or badge plate, so most of what a maker shows the world is cloth. The wing is the largest thing it builds, and it is seen in two main ways: spread out on a launch slope before take-off, or overhead in the air. Makers’ websites and catalogues return to those two views again and again.

Colour comes in panels, because a wing is sewn from many pieces of sail cloth rather than painted. Makers often sell a small set of schemes: Cross Country reported in February 2026 that one new wing came in two standard colour schemes. The cloth is named as well, by mill and weight, in launch notes and reviews, and the stitched cell openings along the leading edge are among the details a close-up photograph tends to pick out.

Engineering drawing is part of the look. Manuals carry line plans and riser diagrams, and catalogues add feature tables and glossaries, so a brand’s printed material can read like technical documentation. Video does a similar job in a friendlier voice. Test pilots and designers appear on camera to explain what went into a new wing, and Cross Country has filmed one such session at a maker’s headquarters.

The trade’s shop window is the Coupe Icare festival. Cross Country describes its expo as a chance to see all the free-flight brands together in one space, and as the moment when companies celebrate their successes and announce next season’s gliders and harnesses. Stands there can be part of the brand: Ojo Volador reported that one maker marked its founder’s 40 years in free flight in 2018 with a party on its stand, a special red harness and live Korean folk music. This guide sets out what can be checked about each maker, and marks what rests only on the company’s own word.

“Fly in Peace.”

The line attached to the brand is “Fly in Peace.” Cross Country called it the MAC PARA mantra in June 2023, and Air MKG presents it as the working specification behind every wing, covering handling, performance, safety and comfort. On the company’s own website the tone is plainer. Its philosophy page opens with a passion for flying of all kinds, from aircraft models to mountains, and closes with the lines “Flying is our passion. Paragliding is our sport.”

The spelling needs care. The company writes MAC PARA in capitals; the trade press usually prints Mac Para, and older model names appear as Mac Eden or Mac Magus. The website offers its logo for download as PDF, JPG and PNG files.

Colour is handled model by model. The website gives the standard colours of the Eden 8 as gold, lime, red and blue, and invites buyers to specify a personal colour design. Cross Country reported the 2019 Magus in white or blue. Its reviewers also describe smaller details: colour-coded risers and lines on the Aravis, Porcher Skytex cloth, Nitinol rods along the leading edge, and what the magazine called designer Petr Recek’s attention to detail, seen in the very smooth finish of that wing.

On manufacturing, Air MKG says the wings are cut and assembled in the company’s own production facility in the Czech Republic, a few steps from the design office, and that models are certified to EN, LTF or DGAC standards depending on the wing. The company’s website also names those three standards.

For a design guide, MAC PARA shows how a single long-running model name and one designer’s continuity can do the work of a brand story. Compare Dudek, its Polish neighbour in the same trade, and Ozone, which sells paragliders and kites. For this guide we use spruce, spring green and sailcloth with a sans, an unofficial interpretation; no product or logo is reproduced.

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