Bruce Goldsmith is a British
paraglider
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pilot, paraglider designer, and the 2007 Paragliding World Champion. He won the title at
Manilla in Australia, flying an
Airwave Magic
The Airwave Magic is an Austrian single-place, paraglider that was designed by Bruce Goldsmith and produced by Airwave Gliders of Fulpmes. It is now out of production.Bertrand, Noel; Rene Coulon; et al: ''World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2003- ...
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He has been British Paragliding Champion three times, most recently in 2004. He has also been British Hang Gliding champion twice. He was also ranked #1 paraglider pilot in the World in 2007 by the FAI. He held the World Record declared flight to Goal of 275Km in 2004 in Texas, USA.
Goldsmith is by profession a civil engineer, who started designing
hang gliders
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in 1979 and paragliders in 1989 and was the designer of paragliders for
Airwave Gliders
Airwave Gliders was an Austrian aircraft manufacturer based on the Isle of Wight and later in Fulpmes. The company specialized in the design and manufacture of hang gliders and paragliders.Bertrand, Noel; Rene Coulon; et al: ''World Directory o ...
for 20 years and designed the
Magic
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Scenic
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Aviation
* Airwave Scenic, an Austrian ...
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Sport
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Ten
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Places
* Mount Ten, in Vietnam
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and the
Wave
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[Bertrand, Noel; Rene Coulon; et al: ''World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2003-04'', page 12. Pagefast Ltd, Lancaster OK, 2003. ISSN 1368-485X] 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 1998, and was Managing Director, designing Ozone's first 4 paragliders: Electron, Proton, Octane and Cosmic Rider. He returned to Airwave in 2000. He moved to the Swiss paraglider manufacturer
Advance Thun in 2010 and then in 2012 set up a brand under his own name: Bruce Goldsmith Design or BGD.
He lives in the south of France with his wife Arna Reynisdottir 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.
See also
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Paragliding
Paragliding is the recreational and competitive adventure sport of flying paragliders: lightweight, free-flying, foot-launched glider aircraft with no rigid primary structure. The pilot sits in a harness or in a cocoon-like 'pod' suspended be ...
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Hang gliding
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people