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Tomark

Tomark s.r.o. is a Slovak aircraft manufacturer based in Prešov and founded in 1995. The company specializes in the design and manufacture of ready-to-fly ultralight aircraft. The company is a Společnost s ručením omezeným (sro), a Slovak private limited company. It was started as a mechanical engineering company working in such industries as automotive production and has a division, TomarkAero, that produces the aircraft designs. The company's first design was the Tomark Viper SD4, a low-wing, two-seat aircraft that was first flown on 1 November 2006 and accepted by the American Federal Aviation Administration as an approved special light-sport aircraft in 2010. The second design, the Tomark Skyper GT9, is a high-wing, two seat ultralight, designed for flight training and touring, introduced in 2014. It was designed for the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale microlight rules and US light-sport aircraft rules and complies with the Czech UL2-1 and ELSA as well as German LTF-UL rules.

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Tomark s.r.o. is a Slovak aircraft manufacturer based in Prešov and founded in 1995. The company specializes in the design and manufacture of ready-to-fly ultralight aircraft. The company is a Společnost s ručením omezeným (sro), a Slovak private limited company. It was started as a mechanical engineering company working in such industries as automotive production and has a division, TomarkAero, that produces the aircraft designs. The company's first design was the Tomark Viper SD4, a low-wing, two-seat aircraft that was first flown on 1 November 2006 and accepted by the American Federal Aviation Administration as an approved special light-sport aircraft in 2010. The second design, the Tomark Skyper GT9, is a high-wing, two seat ultralight, designed for flight training and touring, introduced in 2014. It was designed for the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale microlight rules and US light-sport aircraft rules and complies with the Czech UL2-1 and ELSA as well as German LTF-UL rules.

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  1. date of foundation: 1995 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95

Discussion questions

  1. Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
  2. The record states that the date of foundation is "1995". What evidence would count against this claim?
  3. Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
  4. If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?

Bibliography

  1. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1359582082

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