The Hang Gliding Years With UP (Ultralite Products)
“I was driving by the beach on the way to the BRE shop one day and saw these crazy guys jumping off a small hill with nothing more than canvas tied to some sticks. All my adult life I’d been focused on how to make things stick to the ground. I saw this and thought ‘I’ve got to get in on this’.” After a decade-long stint of successfully managing UP, Ultralite Products, which he built into the largest hang gliding company in the world, and developing the sport of long distance hang gliding competition, Brock saw liability laws put a strangle hold on innovation. He soon returned to his first love, race cars and the automotive industry.
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