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Pilots Right Stuff
Pilots Right Stuff (often called just PRS) was a German aircraft manufacturer based in Brannenburg and founded by Hans Bausenwein. The company specialized in the design and manufacture of paragliders in the form of ready-to-fly aircraft.Bertrand, Noel; Rene Coulon; et al: ''World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2003-04'', page 28. Pagefast Ltd, Lancaster UK, 2003. The company was a division of Aerosport International, a company that acted mostly as a paraglider importer, representing manufacturers such as Paratech, Ozone Gliders and Sup'Air. PRS seems to have been founded about 2000 and gone out of business in 2009. The company's aim was to build gliders for specific applications where market gaps were apparent, not to field a complete line of paragliders. As such the company did not establish a design team, but contracted design assistance as required, in particular from Ozone Gliders. PRS's first glider was the PRS One, introduced in 2000 and designed with outside assistanc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Privately Held Company
A privately held company (or simply a private company) is a company whose shares and related rights or obligations are not offered for public subscription or publicly negotiated in the respective listed markets, but rather the company's stock is offered, owned, traded, exchanged privately, or Over-the-counter (finance), over-the-counter. In the case of a closed corporation, there are a relatively small number of shareholders or company members. Related terms are closely-held corporation, unquoted company, and unlisted company. Though less visible than their public company, publicly traded counterparts, private companies have major importance in the world's economy. In 2008, the 441 list of largest private non-governmental companies by revenue, largest private companies in the United States accounted for ($1.8 trillion) in revenues and employed 6.2 million people, according to ''Forbes''. In 2005, using a substantially smaller pool size (22.7%) for comparison, the 339 companies on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ozone Gliders
Ozone Gliders Limited is an aircraft manufacturer based in Le Bar-sur-Loup, France, although it is registered in Edinburgh, Scotland. The company specializes in the design and manufacture of paragliders in the form of ready-to-fly aircraft.Bertrand, Noel; Rene Coulon; et al: ''World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2003-04'', pages 23 & 28. Pagefast Ltd, Lancaster UK, 2003. The company CEO is Mike Cavanagh, while gliders are designed by hang gliding and paragliding world champion pilot Robbie Whittall. The company produces a complete line of paragliders. In 2003 their line-up included the training Atom, tandem two-place Mac Daddy Bi, mountain descent Peak, competition Proton GT, sports Ozone Vibe and the intermediate Vulcan. Whittall and Ozone have collaborated with other companies, such as Pilots Right Stuff in the design of their PRS Peak mountain descent glider. Divisions The company has four divisions: *Ozone Gliders Limited - manufactures paragliders *Ozone Power Limited ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Archive
An archive is an accumulation of historical records or materials – in any medium – or the physical facility in which they are located. Archives contain primary source documents that have accumulated over the course of an individual or organization's lifetime, and are kept to show the function of that person or organization. Professional archivists and historians generally understand archives to be records that have been naturally and necessarily generated as a product of regular legal, commercial, administrative, or social activities. They have been metaphorically defined as "the secretions of an organism", and are distinguished from documents that have been consciously written or created to communicate a particular message to posterity. In general, archives consist of records that have been selected for permanent or long-term preservation on grounds of their enduring cultural, historical, or evidentiary value. Archival records are normally unpublished and almost alway ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PRS Pilot One
The PRS Pilot One is a German single-place paraglider that was designed and produced by Pilots Right Stuff (PRS) of Brannenburg. It is now out of production.Bertrand, Noel; Rene Coulon; et al: ''World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2003-04'', page 28. Pagefast Ltd, Lancaster OK, 2003. Design and development The aircraft was designed as a simple and safe to fly DHV Level 1 glider. The models are each named for their relative size. Variants ;Pilot One S :Small-sized model for lighter pilots. Its span wing has a wing area of , 56 cells and the aspect ratio is 4.8:1. The pilot weight range is . The glider model is DHV 1 certified. ;Pilot One M :Mid-sized model for medium-weight pilots. Its span wing has a wing area of , 60 cells and the aspect ratio is 5:1. The pilot weight range is . The glider model is DHV 1 certified. ;Pilot One L :Large-sized model for heavier pilots. Its span wing has a wing area of , 60 cells and the aspect ratio is 5:1. The pilot weight range is . The gl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mountaineering
Mountaineering or alpinism, is a set of outdoor activities that involves ascending tall mountains. Mountaineering-related activities include traditional outdoor climbing, skiing, and traversing via ferratas. Indoor climbing, sport climbing, and bouldering are also considered variants of mountaineering by some. Unlike most sports, mountaineering lacks widely applied formal rules, regulations, and governance; mountaineers adhere to a large variety of techniques and philosophies when climbing mountains. Numerous local alpine clubs support mountaineers by hosting resources and social activities. A federation of alpine clubs, the International Climbing and Mountaineering Federation (UIAA), is the International Olympic Committee-recognized world organization for mountaineering and climbing. The consequences of mountaineering on the natural environment can be seen in terms of individual components of the environment (land relief, soil, vegetation, fauna, and landscape) and location/z ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PRS Peak
The PRS Peak is a German single-place paraglider that was designed by Pilots Right Stuff (PRS) in conjunction with Robbie Whittall and Ozone Gliders and produced by Pilots Right Stuff of Brannenburg. It is now out of production.Bertrand, Noel; Rene Coulon; et al: ''World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2003-04'', page 28. Pagefast Ltd, Lancaster OK, 2003. Design and development The aircraft was designed as a mountaineering descent glider. Reviewer Noel Bertrand noted in a 2003 review that the Peak "opened up a market for very lightweight Para-Trekking models and several competitors have moved into this market gap." The models are each named for their relative size. Variants ;Peak S :Small-sized model for lighter pilots. Its span wing has a wing area of , 33 cells and the aspect ratio is 4.86:1. The pilot weight range is . The glider model is DHV 1 certified. ;Peak M :Mid-sized model for medium-weight pilots. Its span wing has a wing area of , 33 cells and the aspect ratio i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PRS One
The PRS One is a German single-place paraglider that was produced by Pilots Right Stuff (PRS) of Brannenburg, starting in 2000. It was designed with outside contract assistance. The glider is now out of production. Design and development The company decided to contract out design work on the glider, rather than establish its own design department, as its limited line of gliders was intended to fill particular market niches, rather than offer a complete line of gliders and this made contract design more cost efficient.Bertrand, Noel; Rene Coulon; et al: ''World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2003-04'', page 30. Pagefast Ltd, Lancaster OK, 2003. The aircraft was designed as a beginner and intermediate glider. It was certified as a purely DHV Class 1 glider, from which it takes its name. The four model sizes produced are each named for their relative size. The design is made from high-tenacity, low-porosity material of 49 g/m2 and incorporates diagonal tapes instead of the more c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paratech
Paratech AG was a Swiss aircraft manufacturer based in Wasserauen and previously in Appenzell. The company specialized in the design and manufacture of paragliders in the form of ready-to-fly aircraft, as well as paragliding harnesses, clothing and accessories.Bertrand, Noel; Rene Coulon; et al: ''World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2003-04'', page 26. Pagefast Ltd, Lancaster UK, 2003. The company was founded in 1988 and seems to gone out of business in 2015. The company was an aktiengesellschaft, a stockholder owned company. Paratech's paragliders, designed by Uwe Bernholz, had a unique model numbering system. In the early 2000s production included the beginner P25 and P26, the intermediate P43 and the performance P70, as well as the two-place P Bi4 for flight training. Aircraft Summary of aircraft built by Paratech: * Paratech P12 * Paratech P22 * Paratech P25 * Paratech P26 * Paratech P28 *Paratech P43 * Paratech P45 * Paratech P50 * Paratech P70 * Paratech P81 * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brannenburg
Brannenburg is a municipality in the district of Rosenheim in Bavaria in Germany. There is a train station A train station, railway station, railroad station or depot is a railway facility where trains stop to load or unload passengers, freight or both. It generally consists of at least one platform, one track and a station building providing suc ... is located in Brannenburg. References Rosenheim (district) {{Rosenheimdistrict-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paraglider
Paragliding is the recreational and competitive adventure sport of flying paragliders: lightweight, free-flying, foot-launched glider aircraft with no rigid primary structure. The pilot sits in a harness or lies supine in a cocoon-like 'pod' suspended below a fabric wing. Wing shape is maintained by the suspension lines, the pressure of air entering vents in the front of the wing, and the aerodynamic forces of the air flowing over the outside. Despite not using an engine, paraglider flights can last many hours and cover many hundreds of kilometres, though flights of one to two hours and covering some tens of kilometres are more the norm. By skillful exploitation of sources of lift, the pilot may gain height, often climbing to altitudes of a few thousand metres. History In 1966, Canadian Domina Jalbert was granted a patent for a ''multi-cell wing type aerial device—''"a wing having a flexible canopy constituting an upper skin and with a plurality of longitudinally extend ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aircraft Manufacturer
An aerospace manufacturer is a company or individual involved in the various aspects of designing, building, testing, selling, and maintaining aircraft, aircraft parts, missiles, rockets, or spacecraft. Aerospace is a high technology industry. The aircraft industry is the industry supporting aviation by building aircraft and manufacturing aircraft parts for their maintenance. This includes aircraft and parts used for civil aviation and military aviation. Most production is done pursuant to type certificates and Defense Standards issued by a government body. This term has been largely subsumed by the more encompassing term: "aerospace industry". Market In 2015 the aircraft production was worth US$180.3 Billion: 61% airliners, 14% business and general aviation, 12% Military aircraft, 10% military rotary wing and 3% civil rotary wing; while their MRO was worth $135.1 Bn or $ Bn combined. The global aerospace industry was worth $838 billion in 2017: Aircraft & Engine OEMs repr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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