1989.10 devils dyke brighton sussex paragliders falhawk dupont teijin - Mark turner

ITV and Falhawk were the subject of the first paraglider material scare, the polyester based DuPont Teijin Tetoron pr 48g/M2 that the paragliders were made from went very prematurely porous, the coating on the material simply didn't last any length of time, resulting in ITV and Falhawk doing a poor product recall and buy back deal with a lot of very ticked off owners.
nylon and polyester are far too porous for any kind of paraglider use until a coating is applied to one or both sides of the fabric, and it was the dupont teijin tetoron coating that was the failing, not the base material that caused the problem.
under the dupont teijin buy back program which was a maximum of 50% [depending on condition] of the paragliders new market value , but that 50% was only available if you purchased a new falhawk paraglider, which must of offset some of the cost for dupont, If you did not want to buy a new falhawk paraglider you only got back a very small token payment.

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