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]

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]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "FAI". fai.org. Retrieved 17 March 2016.
  2. ↑ "Manilla 2007 > Home". manilla2007.com. Archived from the original on 1 February 2008. 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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