![]() ![]() The main focus is the attempts at gliders and powered aircraft in the decades before and soon after the Wright Flyer. In the same way some records of flying machines can come down to the exact definition of what, for example, constitutes a "flying machine", or "flight", or even "first".Įarly attempts at flight are the subject of much debate, both for the often sketchy details of machines and people that have vanished away in time and perhaps as a matter of pride for some given group, like a country. The controversy of invention is not limited to flight e.g.:Debates over the tallest building tend to break into debates around what constitutes a building and what is the most important measure of such structures' height. There are conflicting views as to what was the first flying machine. The goal is to examine the properties of flying machines, and to list the claims to allow a proper analysis of all the early flying machines. This article is an overview of primarily pre-20th century flying machines and work, and an analysis of the debates over early flying machines. Since 2010 the design team has been made up of Czechs Frantisek "Franta" Pavlousek, Michal "Snajby" Sneiberg and Jirik "Jirka" Dlask, German aerospace engineer Matthias Hartmann and Stefan "Boxi" Bocks.Picture - A 1786 depiction of the Montgolfier brothers' balloon. Siegel went on to work for Swing Flugsportgeräte, and Stieglair left to start his own company, Air Design. This team developed the UP Pulse, UP Makalu, UP Summit, UP Gambit and the UP Sherpa Bi as well as the UP Targa and UP Trango. Rönning reorganized the company as UP International and consolidated operations, with Torsten Siegel, Georg Maier and former World Champion Stephan Stiegler taking on glider development. The hang gliding business was wound up and the paragliding division sold to Christian Rönning, a pioneering Swedish paraglider pilot. This period the company produced the UP Escape paraglider, which sold well, although the paraglider market was in contraction then. Schneider sold UP Europe in 1997 to Daiichi Kosho of Japan, who invested in the company, expanding it in Europe to 20 employees and it relocated to Kochel am See. This resulted in the UP Speed hang glider design in 1995 and the Speed TL model in 1997. With this success, Schneider established an UP Europe hang glider design operation under Bernd Weber's management. ![]() French UP pilot Richard Gallon won the 1994 Paragliding World Cup and, in 1995, World Champion Stephan Stiegler and other top paragliding pilots all became members of the UP flying team. ![]() ![]() Wiesmeier also designed UP's Skywear clothing line. UP employee Uli Wiesmeier won the first Paragliding World Cup series also flying a Katana. Company Chief Test Pilot, Ernst Strobl, won the 1992 European Paragliding Championships on a Katana. Von Schlichtegroll later went on to found FreeX. Rasso von Schlichtegroll developed the new line of gliders, including the UP Katana, UP Vision and the tandem two-place UP Pickup. In 1992 Ernst Schneider established UP Europe in Sindelsdorf, Germany and company paraglider development shifted to that country. He later founded his own company, Gin Gliders. The design sold well, but Song did not design another glider for UP and instead went to work for Edel Paragliders. In 1990 the company expanded into paraglider building and hired South Korean designer Gin Seok Song to design the company's first paraglider, the UP Flash. The company maintained a diverse series of locations, including the UP Soaring Center in Salt Lake City Utah, where the UP TRX hang glider was developed. The company expanded into windsurfing equipment, ultralight aircraft and clothing. It became a wholly owned subsidiary of Isomura, Inc. īy the mid-1980s Brock and Haggard decided to leave the business and Japanese investor Yamazaki took over the company, changing the name to UP International. Haggard designed the UP Comet in 1980, a landmark hang glider design that set many records, sold in large numbers and was widely copied. In 1980, Yuseke Yamazaki, a Japanese investor supported the company and it expanded into Asia. The UP Condor set a world record duration flight of 16 hours and 4 minutes in 1979. With Roy Haggard, Brock designed the UP Dragonfly, the first hang glider that did not use a Rogallo style wing. His interests turned to hang gliding and his first design was the Brock Redtail. His initial work was in racing car design, including the Shelby Daytona. The company was founded in Pasadena, California, United States by American Pete Brock following his graduation from an industrial design program. ![]()
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