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 Paragliding Champion three times, most recently in 2004.[3] He has also been British Hang Gliding champion twice.[citation needed] 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 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 1998, and was Managing Director, designing Ozone's first 4 paragliders: Electron, Proton, Octane and Cosmic Rider. He returned to Airwave in 2000.[6] 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.[citation needed]
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.[7]
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