Otherworldly teardrop trailer uses chicken feather composite for light, tiny car-friendly towing

New Mexico-based startup Earth Traveler is developing a very different style of teardrop trailer, a skeletal archway built of lightweight composite meant to put minimal strain on your engine and wallet. And while the range-topper will be made from carbon fiber, the more interesting version will use a composite concocted from chicken feathers, a material that's literally featherlight. At camp, full-length gull-wing panels will rise up like a phoenix, creating standing room and a spacious, breezy interior intimately connected to the surrounding outdoors.

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Category: Outdoors

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• Camping
• Caravan
• Carbon Fiber
• Outdoor
• teardrop trailers
• Trailer
• trailers

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