Hello,

thank you for taking stock in U-Turn and its products. On this page I´m keen to explain my philosophy.

Since 1986 I´m flying regularly, whenever my schedule as co-owner of an computer company gave me a little time. Well established in the computer business, I early reflected about the paragliding business, its chances, risks and opportunities to set new cornerstones with an innovative approach. The decision to found a glider-company was probably made in 1996. Not necessary to mention that a “Me-too”-Company was never thought about.

At this time I met Ernst Strobl. He was customer of my company and allways looking for the “latest and greatest” components for his computer. We were continouosly in touch, and what begun as a computer-talk allways ended as a paraglider-talk. Some day I told Ernst about my ideas about an innovative paraglider company, with all suggestions I had filtered out of hundreds of talks to pilots.

The concept »U-Turn« was born.

For U-Turn, essentials as following are unalterable:

• Passive safety is key. If the pilots does in some situations no longer know his stuff, our gliders must know their stuff even better.
• Quality of materials and production process are at highest level available.
• Only gliders that meet all guidelines exactly come into the market..
• We strike for a well defined product range that does not allow any compromises in the development process (Ernst sighed after delivering an new DHV 2-prototype, wenn I said he should to try even better ;-)).
• We try to be close to our customers by offering many services, incentives and club events.
• We would appreciate to sell as many gliders as possible, but we will care meticoulosly, that there will be no descend in quality and service.
• We ask for high-level design and aesthetics, combined with sportive charisma of our gliders.
• Only handpicked flight-academies, so called Competence-Centers, are allowed to sell our products.

Best wishes
Thomas