Thursday, May 7, 2009

This is the first post in our new paraglider repair blog




Here at WindFire Designs, we usually repair over a thousand kites a year. Recently we've been repairing more and more paragliders too. I thought it would make sense to make a running log of the wings we work on.

I personally have a lot of history with ram-air foil design and construction. I made my first foil when I was about 17. It was basically a knock-off of a sky tiger hi 15. Small, fast and light, it was a great buggy kite.

Working on paraglider wings isn't any different from making our own ram-air foil designs. Brian Haupt is our most recent customer for his Mac Para Eden 3 Paraglider is the one who has inspired me to make it official that we are now using our large skill set to do perfect repairs on paragliders.