PaintballX3 Magazine January 2015 | Page 66

66 The Top Historical Paintball Product Innovations, P By the end of 1996 Air America had five high pressure air systems and dozens of accessories for their systems, filling stations and other HPA related items. Soon after Air America released their first high pressure/nitrogen systems Hal Robinson and his company Paintball Mania Supplies and Adam and Billy Gardner of Smart Parts released their first HPA systems. And by 1997 the HPA floodgates opened and seemingly everyone had an HPA system for paintball. Earlier in the 90s Air America was also instrumental in developing expansion chambers (Black Reign, Whispering Death, etc.), regulators (like the U