Bruce Goldsmith

Bruce Goldsmith is a British paraglider pilot, paraglider designer, and the 2007 Paragliding World Champion. He won the title at Manilla in Australia, flying an Airwave Magic FR3.[1][2]

For the American sailor, see Bruce Goldsmith (sailor).

He has been British champion three times, most recently in 2004.[3] He has also been British hang gliding champion twice.

Goldsmith is by profession a civil engineer, who started designing hang gliders in 1979 and paragliders in 1989 [4] and was the designer of paragliders for Airwave Gliders for 20 years and designed the Magic, Scenic, Sport, Ten and the Wave.[5] He set up the paragliding division of Airwave - which was already a manufacturer of hang gliders - in 1989. He left to found Ozone Paragliders in 1999, but returned to Airwave in 2000.[6] He moved to the Swiss paraglider manufacturer Advance Thun in 2010 and has now set up a brand under his own name: Bruce Goldsmith Design.

He lives in the south of France with his wife Arna and their three children.

Bruce Goldsmith Design

In 2013, Bruce Goldsmith released his first EN-C paraglider 'Tala' under his own label Bruce Goldsmith Design. This has been followed by Wasp (EN-B), Luna (paramotor) and Dual (tandem) paragliders in 2013 and Adam (EN-A) in 2014. In 2015 the Base (EN-B) was launched and the Cure (EN-C) was presented at the Coupe Icare in September.[7]

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gollark: Meanwhile, an external box like an RPi (£50 or so including basic accessories, it's fine) will get support for... probably 10 years or so? And you can swap it separately. And you can be sure of exactly what's running on there. And it has the same security as a standard computery device, i.e. not great but workable.
gollark: *Some* apparently randomly connect to unsecured wireless networks if available.
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gollark: Many do some kind of automatic content recognition thing on the stuff on their screen.

See also

References
  1. "FAI". fai.org. Retrieved 17 March 2016.
  2. "Manilla 2007 > Home". manilla2007.com. Retrieved 17 March 2016.
  3. PGComps Archived July 9, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
  4. Flight bio Archived June 20, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
  5. Bertrand, Noel; Rene Coulon; et al: World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2003-04, page 12. Pagefast Ltd, Lancaster OK, 2003. ISSN 1368-485X
  6. "no.net". no.net. Archived from the original on 23 March 2016. Retrieved 16 March 2016.
  7. Experta Evolution. "Bruce Goldsmith Design – Des ailes d'exception". Bruce Goldsmith Design. Retrieved 16 March 2016.
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