Pilots Right Stuff

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Pilots Right Stuff
Type Privately held company
Industry Aerospace
Foundedcirca 2000
Defunctcirca 2009
Headquarters
Brannenburg
,
Germany
Key people
Hans Bausenwein
Products Paragliders
Parent Aerosport International

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. [1]

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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. [2]

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. [2] [3]

PRS's first glider was the PRS One, introduced in 2000 and designed with outside assistance. [2] The Peak set new standards for a mountaineering descent glider and was followed by the Pilot One in production. [1]

In 2003 the company was developing an advanced and competition glider design with light handling, to be capable of being flown from unprepared sites. [1]

Aircraft

Summary of aircraft built by PRS:

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Bertrand, Noel; Rene Coulon; et al: World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2003-04, page 28. Pagefast Ltd, Lancaster UK, 2003. ISSN   1368-485X
  2. 1 2 3 Lodes, Rainer. "One product review - Pilots right stuff". Fly and Glide. Retrieved 29 October 2016.
  3. ↑ "Aerosport". Internet Archive Wayback Machine. Retrieved 15 October 2016.
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