Stephen, Thank you.
Fascinating how products develop and evolve! Regards, Gary From: Aus-soaring [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Thursday, 16 March 2017 11:36 AM To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia. Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] Oratex UL600 and the unexpected Gary (and others) The fully certified aircraft products have only been around for a few years, however, they have been in use in the light sport aircraft market for a while. Lanitz originally was a model aeroplane company in Germany, a long way back. They have been making (and still make) a heat shrink model aeroplane film called Oracover since the 80s (I think). Anyone familiar with model aeroplane covering films like Solarfilm, Monokote and similar would know exactly what Oracover is like. In around 2000 the company was involved as the covering suppliers for an experimental full size aircraft (prototype Ruppert Archaeopteryx?). I believe from that they went into the UL/sport market, where they did some development work on their products. The UL fabric (600) currently on the market is actually their third version of UL fabric. From there they have gone into the certified aircraft market. Oratex is really Solarfilm for "proper" aeroplanes. :-) Regards SWK ----- Original Message ----- How long have these products been on the market? @gmail.com>
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