10 conversations, every one with a full transcript.
Paragliding 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.
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 p
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. The episode
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 ty
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
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
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. He
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 elsewhe
In this episode of Paragliding Atlas, we have an exciting conversation with Stephan Stiegler, the innovative designer from . Stephan has spearheaded the technological change in the paraglidi
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. Much of th
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. The conversa