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All rigid wings must be piloted as a Sailplane with its limitations
Aerobatics are forbidden
If you follow these simple warnings, you will fly safe and enjoy your wing

The V-Tail

Description
Stratos is the latest innovation rigid wings available on the market today. Thanks to this wing, Christian Ciech won his first World Championship in 2002.
The new Icaro’s rigid wing is a direct evolution of the Atos, to which have been applied significant improvements. The behaviour in thermals has become more neutral and the glide performance is at the top of category.
Sail optimized cut reduces the drag and increase the performance. The new sail cut gives also a nicer look to the wing (the graphic of this sail has been designed by our graphic designer Ignazio Bernardi).
We also took particular care on all the finishing of the frame and sail.
Anyway, the primary target for Icaro 2000 is always the safety of its wings. The Stratos is completely certified by DHV, in both the Standard and Competition version.
However, in order to increase the safety of this Rigid wing, from 2003 onwards all Competition Stratos will come with the V-tail. This tail will be available also as option on the Standard version and as upgrade kit on all the rigid wings produced by Icaro till today.
 

Sail
The material used for the Stratos sail is a stormlight of 2.1 Oz from the spinnacher's family. The Stratos is only available with a white sail base and a large colour choice for the stripe. Thanks to our long experience, in sail production, the design of the Stratos sail has been completely carried out here, in Icaro 2000. Also the construction is completely made in Icaro 2000; in this way we have a constant control on the production quality. Final result is a sail without wrinkles, which fits in a perfect way the wing profile.

Frame
The Stratos frame derives directly from the Atos frame; it has been modified thanks to the experience gained in 5 years of production activity. This choice permits Icaro 2000 to make use of Felix Ruhle's well-known technological skills in composite, using the same moulds for the D-cells and ribs, and guaranteeing the best possible quality rigid wings on the market today.  

Versions
The Stratos is available in two versions. Standard and Competition. The Standard version is made for pilots who want to fly with, the wing that we describe as, the most comfortable and full performing realized till today. With this wing, also non-competitor pilots are able to reach their objective, of which, till now they could only dream about.

The Competition version is only for expert pilots, those looking for the absolute best performing footlaunchable and pendular wing ever made. Any free flight pilot, including World Champion of flex wings Manfred Ruhmer, can confirm this reality. In spite of this incredible result, this wing is completly certified by the German DHV.
 

V-Tail
Today, after a year of tests performed by the A.I.R. team pilots, in and out of the competitions, the tail is finally available for all the interested pilots. This tail has an asymmetric profile and is placed on the keel with a fixed angle of attack. Thanks to the single connection point it is very easy to fix and remove it. This tail is expressly studied for the rigid wing and give the Stratos a better longitudinal stability, increasing the piloting comfort and consequently also the pitch handling. Also the directional stability has increased and is it more difficult to lead the wing into a spin.

An interesting video showing spins with and without the V-tail can be seen at: www.dhv.de/deutsch/news/index.html. A report on the performance of the V-tail during the 2002 World Championships at Chelan, Washington can be accessed at www.davisstraub.com/OZ
 

Sizes

• Stratos L (Large)
• Stratos S (Small)

• V-Tail
• Aluminium Streamlined Speed Bar
• Carbon tips shell insert

Stratos S

Stratos L

11.8

127

13.8

148

-5°/70°

-5°/70°

11.85

39

13.25

43

11.9

12.7

31

68

5.15

16.8

5.8

19.0

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