Ozone Photon

• Based on the Zeno 2
• Incredibly stable throughout the speed range in real XC conditions
• True 2-line design with intuitive rear riser control
• Near comp wing glide and speed performance
• For experienced Sport Class pilot

• Top Surface Cloth: Dominico N20D
• Bottom Surface Cloth: Porcher 7000E71
• Rib cloth: Porcher 9017E29 (hard) / Porcher 7000E91 (hard)
• Upper lines: Edelrid 8001 & Edelrid 9200
• Mid lines: Edelrid 8001
• Lower Lines: Edelrid 8001

Flybubble review

“So, first impressions of the Ozone Photon, a few hours including the ground handling, playing around. First of all on the ground. I found that the glider just takes a little bit more to get inflated. The Photon was just required more finesse and was less forgiving. Totally fine for the class. But once you got the air and inflate it, then the glider came up really nicely. I was pleased to see that actually it wants to come up even from near the ground, so it's not like some other two-liners and some other Ozone gliders that I've flown. So, that was just something I found is that you tended to need to hold the glider down a bit. Actually, once it taken its shape in the breeze. I found to step towards the wing quite important, otherwise, the glider can build up a lot of speed and want to come up fast and need quite heavy breaks to stop it and could pluck you, again, obviously, for the level of pilot that's flying that glider. They should be totally fine with that. I'd say there, comparing it to the Delta 4, the Photon, these, yeah, I found it reasonably more demanding on the ground in that way and just, well, in fact, just managing it on the ground and the launch, it requires a bit more precision and a bit more finesse and is a bit less forgiving than the Alpina 4 or the Delta 4. Testing the stall on the ground.I think it's very good. The stall point, I found more obvious, easier to feel and to control than, say, the AirDesign Volt 4, and possibly, this needs to be checked but possibly a little easier than the Niviuk Artik R, but probably quite similar. I think on the ground the Artik R and the Photon seem quite similar. I could feel quite clearly before the glider stalled. Also of note, once I stalled the glider, and let it drop back a bit into a stall, and I put my hands up, the glider had a tendency to come back up and fly, and I could catch it again.

In the air, a bit of a different story. So compared to the other EN C two-liners I've flown, the Volt 4, the Artik R, and the Bonanza 3. I'd say that, in the air, that the Photon moves around more. It moves more as two wings. That's what I was finding. I was flying with my Advance Lightness 3, which I have flown some of the other gliders with as well. It was a bit more of a higher-performance glider. It had more of a sort of slightly a D-class kind of feeling to me. That's how it felt in its movements and how it sort of talked and moved around.

In terms of handling, I found the brake pressure is moderate to slightly on the the firmer side. In terms of agility, it's moderate to slightly on the steady side. Another thing that surprised me with the Photon is the brakes are really quite long. So when you're just holding the brake toggles, they're quite low like down here, so you definitely take a wrap with them obviously, which you do with all of these wings. Today in smallish thermals, I was having to really pull the brakes down quite a bit and use quite a bit of weight shift to get the glider to come round. So, yeah, so good agility and good handling but felt more tuned to the kind of efficient flat turning and, you know, stable and efficient rather than agile and dynamic. I could quickly build up energy with the glider. It really keeps its energy nicely, so I could very quickly build up. I didn't do particularly big wing-overs today. I didn't have a lot of height and didn't do any particularly big wing-overs, so I just played around a bit and you could quickly build up energy, and 'cause the glider feels really solid and very efficient, it can really carve round and do some very nice wing-overs, so it was great for that. But in terms of, like, thermaling and working little bitty corse and stuff like that, it's a little bit more on the steady side.

In terms of performance, well, what I saw today, the Photon goes very, very well, yeah. It's definitely gonna be at least one of the top of the EN C two-liners, and it's certainly right up at the top. It's got a very good glide, very efficient, really punches up wind nicely. On the speed bar, it really picks up good speed. This is a glider that's made for performance and speed. As an example, sticking within the Ozone range, I'd say that at trim, the performance has gotta be at least as good as the Mantra M7, which is a low D. And so that's an idea, and I think the performance is good as that, and then accelerated, my feeling is that the Photon is noticeably goes faster and is more efficient as you'd expect from a two-liner.

In terms of the climb rate, I think it's really good. It's got a very good climb rate. My feeling so far of the EN C two-liners is that the two best ones, so far, this is my feeling.

So overall, on my first impressions of the Ozone Photon. I am really, really impressed with it. I think it's a really great glider, very, very impressive, as I think all of these new EN C liners that have come out are and, but they've got a very different And really, it's gonna be down to personal preference, which is the right glider for you, which is what's most important for you. Whether it's the out and out performance or it's the pilot demands or the climb rate, the sink rate, the handling, or just the pleasure of the glider feedback.”

- Carlo Borsattino, Flybubble

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