Pilots Right Stuff (often called just PRS) was a German

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 indust ...

based in

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, ...

and founded by Hans Bausenwein. The company specialized in the design and manufacture of

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 'po ...

s 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 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, clothi ...

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.Bertr ...

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

. PRS's first glider was the

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 c ...

, introduced in 2000 and designed with outside assistance. The

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set new standards for a

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descent glider and was followed by the Pilot One in production. In 2003 the company was developing an advanced and competition glider design with light handling, to be capable of being flown from unprepared sites.

Aircraft

Summary of aircraft built by PRS: *

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, Noe ...

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'', pa ...

References

External links

Company website archives
on

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{{PRS aircraft Defunct aircraft manufacturers of Germany Paragliders