#Innovation
10 conversations, every one with a full transcript.
- Conversations
- 10
- Listening
- 12h 08m
- Chapters
- 113
- Series
- 4
Brand StoriesPal Takats on Challenges, Change & The Future of Paragliding 
New TechnologiesWhy Paragliding’s Safety Future Looks Different: RAST Inventor Michael Nesler & the LeelooX Effect
Flight MechanicsAljaž Valič : 777 : Paragliding’s Slovenian Mavericks Redefining the EN B Class And Elevating Free Flight PerformanceParagliding Atlas has 10 conversations tagged innovation, 10 of them with a complete transcript you can read and search on the page. Guests include Pal Takats, Michael Nesler, Aljaž Valič and Raúl Rodríguez. The subject runs alongside safety, paragliding, wing design.
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Brand Stories
Pal Takats on Challenges, Change & The Future of Paragliding
Pal Takats says he is no longer willing to accept air that can collapse a wing no matter how good the pilot is, and argues that competition should reward the best pilot rather than the one prepared…
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New Technologies
Why Paragliding’s Safety Future Looks Different: RAST Inventor Michael Nesler & the LeelooX Effect
Michael Nesler invented RAST, the system used in Swing wings that limits how far a collapse can travel across the canopy, and has since built his own two liner in the EN B class.
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Flight Mechanics
Aljaž Valič : 777 : Paragliding’s Slovenian Mavericks Redefining the EN B Class And Elevating Free Flight Performance
Aljaz Valic, co-founder of the Slovenian brand 777, sets out the design thinking behind their EN B wings and why he believes development stalls once a class becomes effectively one single type and…
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Risk vs Reward
Risk Vs Reward 4 : Raúl Rodríguez
Raul Rodriguez invented many of the manoeuvres that acro is built on, and the conversation covers how a pilot should come into the discipline, starting with SIV on an ordinary wing to learn what it…
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Brand Stories
Brand Stories : Neo : Eric Roussel
Eric Roussel explains why Neo designs and manufactures in France rather than Asia, from the cost arithmetic that forces them into higher quality and more innovation, to the reason the brand is named…
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Risk vs Reward
Risk Vs Reward 3 : Manfred Ruhmer
Manfred Ruhmer has flown fixed, flexible and collapsible wings across more than three decades, and this conversation is about what a career that long does to your relationship with risk.
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New Technologies
New Technologies 4 : Veselin Ovcharov (Fly The Earth)
Veselin Ovcharov of Fly The Earth talks through the second version of his acro harness, and why he thinks the sport has been flying rucksacks for decades while the technology drifted elsewhere.
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New Technologies
New Technologies 3 : Stephan Stiegler (AirDesign Paragliders)
In this episode of Paragliding Atlas, we have an exciting conversation with Stephan Stiegler, the innovative designer from AirDesign.
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New Technologies
New Technologies 2 : Guillem Batlle & Adrià Grau (Niviuk Paragliders)
Guillem Batlle, the aerospace engineer heading R&D at Niviuk, and mechanical engineer Adria Grau explain how a wing is actually developed and tested before it ever reaches a shop.
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New Technologies
New Technologies 1 : Beni Kälin (speedflyingschool.com)
Beni Kalin introduces the wing technology from Go Flare Global and how borrowing ideas from kiting lets a wing convert vertical energy in a way a conventional paraglider cannot.