Guess I'll join in with Harlan here and ask if you've actually seen Oratex fail or this is just an opinion. If it's an opinion, based on what? Way back in the day, when all aircraft wings were fabric and someone dared to start making some out of metall, there were those that were sure it would never work. Also Lars doesn't "own the company" as you you state. He is just a distributor for the US as Oratex is actually manufactured by Lanitz Aviation over in Germany.