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world can look back on such an expansive
history as we can. The UP story started
back in 1970 when Pete Brock graduated
from the Art Center, a world famous
school for design and engineering in
Pasadena, California, and promptly
created some of the most legendary race
cars ever
– the Daytona Coupe from
General Motors was one
– and then went
on to become fascinated by the emerging
sport of hanggliding
– at that time
probably the maddest pastime of them all.
After founding Ultralite Products he
introduces his first wing, the Dragonfly,
and soon the new company becomes
known under the UP acronym..
Pete Brocks spirit survives to this day in
everything we do at UP International
– we
still have our very own way of seeing
things and designing things. This entails
building paragliders that are not only as
safe as they come, they must also meet
the very high standards we set ourselves.
Among these are the continued use of the
most advanced technology available both
in the designing and manufacturing
process, but also the feel, the handling
and the performance of the finished
product. All this because we're addicted to
building wings that will fascinate you. A
good paraglider is comprised of a number
of interacting factors of which looks, feel,
handling and performance are but a few.
Only when all these come together in the
final product can we claim to have built a
wing that is homogenous and pleasurable
to fly; and only then we're happy, and
ready to introduce our new UP baby to the
free flying world.
Our gliders are developed using state-of-
the-art CAD software. Our programs allow
us to do the initial flight testing in a virtual
environment where we can simulate a
great many things before even assembling
the first prototypes.
Once we're happy with the new
prototypes' behaviour in the virtual
environment the program generates
the templates after which the glider is
sewn. When a new prototype arrives
from our proto-building experts
everyone at UP is excited about the
prospects of trying it out in real life.
The practical tests may show that
further modifications are needed
–
these may be carried out on the
existing wing, or a new prototype is
built with the mods already
incorporated. In exceptional cases this
may continue through several
prototypes, for only when we're 100%
satisfied do we submit our new wing to
testing by the DHV. We owe it to our
customers, and to our own history, to
be particular about which products
earn the UP badge.
Technical
description
The UP Summit XC² was built to fulfil
the expectations to a modern, safe and
fast Performance Intermediate wing.
The launching is excellent and the
performance figures impressive.
As with all UP products, the materials
used have been carefully chosen for
their outstanding quality and strength,
to guarantee a long and trouble-free
service life.
Further construction details, including
line lengths, are included in the
certification specification sheets, which
form part of this manual. Any technical
changes will appear in the appendix.