10 conversations, every one with a full transcript.
Paragliding Atlas has 10 conversations tagged two liners, 10 of them with a complete transcript you can read and search on the page. Guests include Brett Janaway, Russell Ogden, Tom Lolies and Gin Seok Song. The subject runs alongside competition, wing design, certification.
Recorded on a non flying day at SRS Piedrahita, Brett Janaway explains why line trim has become a competition level concern, with three wings now checked daily at events like the European Ch
Russell Ogden argues that a free spread of information is what keeps the sport safe, and describes himself as a second generation pilot who came up through a UK training system that was alre
Tom Lolies traces his route from a student project bringing proper modelling and scientific method into paraglider design, through seven years designing at BGD, to running a three person res
Brett Janaway tells how the Sports Racing Series began around 2012 with a few organisers agreeing over a beer to link their events into one series, and why he is careful that what happens in
In this episode I sit with the founder of Gin Gliders, to talk about his 5 decade free flight legacy, Starting with rogallo shaped hang gliders back in the day to pioneering Boomerang compet
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
Ziad Bassil test flies more wings than almost anyone in the sport and writes them all up, working from the thought that birds cannot swap wings but humans can. He is generous about the field
Helmut Schrempf sets out a modernised way of running SIV courses, built around teaching deliberate control of the wing rather than working through a fixed list of manoeuvres. His case is tha
Frantisek Pavlousek of UP Paragliders brings three decades of wing design to a conversation about whether performance can run away from safety in a beginner wing, and how much a buyer can re
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