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Physical Flight became Salient last year. Their bags are designed and handled by the same people.
Hyzer Bomb, to my knowledge, is not affiliated with Salient, although the Flak and Contender look a hell of a lot alike. I believe the Flak predates the Contender.
duh.
you are really behind on this story is what he's saying. the flak was sent to physical flight for a potential deal to make the flaks in bulk...lo and behold they come out with a new bag that "coincidentally" is the exact replica of the flak. no affiliation no friendship. the end.
you are really behind on this story is what he's saying. the flak was sent to physical flight for a potential deal to make the flaks in bulk...lo and behold they come out with a new bag that "coincidentally" is the exact replica of the flak. no affiliation no friendship. the end.
This is definitely not true. Well the no affiliation is, but everything else, no not true.
Physical Flight became Salient last year. Their bags are designed and handled by the same people.
Hyzer Bomb, to my knowledge, is not affiliated with Salient, although the Flak and Contender look a hell of a lot alike. I believe the Flak predates the Contender.
The Flak was already out well before the Contender. Hyzerbomb had released the first and second iterations of the Flak. Then came the Flak 3 fiasco. A mass of preorders and no product. At that point, Hyzerbomb started shopping their bag production around, trying to find a way to get the Flak 3 back into play. One of those contacts happen to be Physical Flight. Now, Physical Flight already used a lot of the same supply companies as Hyzerbomb. That's why the handles, feet, etc. are the same, even though bags like the Physical Flight Challenger were in production earlier. Which, likely had something to do with Hyzerbomb reaching out to Physical Flight in the first place (they already had access to some build parts). Physical Flight was given some older Flaks to see what they could come up with. For whatever reason, it never panned out. Hyzerbomb decided to go a different direction. By that point, the Flak 3 preorder promises were almost a year old, and the original preorder customers had mostly been refunded. Hyzerbomb had a real knack for disappearing for some six months at a time without any updates or info. So, lo and behold, out pops preorders for the Contender. There are obvious differences. The majority of the same features are there, just rearranged. The core, however, is definitely a Flak. Once the Contender preorders hit the scene, Hyzerbomb put the rockets on getting the Flak 3 up and running. They touted improvements, but it was the same Flak 3 they had put up almost a year prior. They even re-released the same promo video.
All in all, I think Physical Flight made some gross errors in their rush to produce a bag that wasn't the "boxy, odd" Challenger. And Hyzerbomb did as well in their rush to be in the mix with the Contender release. Both companies have happy, dedicated customers. And neither will admit mistakes, whether they be business or ethical. So it's really a moot point. As consumers, the politics of their businesses are mostly irrelevant anyways. Buy what you like, trust, and want. Let the people behind the curtains worry about everything else.