The Kite Mag

Airwave Koala

TELL US A BIT OF BACKGROUND TO THE AIRWAVE BRAND.

It’s been a long and exciting journey for Airwave. The company started out in a garage on the Isle of Wight in the UK in the 1980s, designing hang gliders. Later on Bruce started designing paragliders for Airwave, the first being the Black Magic in 1989. Bruce then created his own paraglider company 10 years ago, Bruce Goldsmith Design (BGD). I entered the company in 2017 as a design engineer, also responsible for simulation and development of numerical models. I quickly asked if I

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