8 conversations, every one with a full transcript.
Paragliding Atlas has 8 conversations tagged wing design, 8 of them with a complete transcript you can read and search on the page. Guests include Luc Armant, Tom Lolies, Michael Nesler and Aljaž Valič. The subject runs alongside certification, innovation, two liners.
Luc Armant explains that a paraglider's pitch stability comes entirely from its profile shape, because the wing has no tail, and that the profile's moment coefficient decides where the lift
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
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
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
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
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