Pilots Right Stuff (often called just PRS) was a German
aircraft manufacturer
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based in
Brannenburg 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), glider aircraft with no rigid primary structure. The pilot sits in a :wikt:harness, harness or in ...
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,
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
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
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, introduced in 2000 and designed with outside assistance.
The
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set new standards for a
mountaineering
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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:
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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 ...
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PRS Peak
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PRS Pilot One
References
External links
Company website archiveson
Archive.org
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Defunct aircraft manufacturers of Germany
Paragliders