#Wing Design
8 conversations, every one with a full transcript.
- Conversations
- 8
- Listening
- 9h 54m
- Chapters
- 90
- Series
- 3
Flight MechanicsLuc Armant talks about The Moment Coefficient, Enzo 3 Certification Debate & Physics of Stability
Flight MechanicsTom Lolies Explains The Science Of Wing Design and Evolution from ENC to CSC
New TechnologiesWhy Paragliding’s Safety Future Looks Different: RAST Inventor Michael Nesler & the LeelooX EffectParagliding 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.
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Flight Mechanics
Luc Armant talks about The Moment Coefficient, Enzo 3 Certification Debate & Physics of Stability
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 sits and…
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Flight Mechanics
Tom Lolies Explains The Science Of Wing Design and Evolution from ENC to CSC
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 research…
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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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New Technologies
New Technologies 5 : Frantisek Pavlousek (UP Paragliders)
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 really…
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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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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.