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    RRD WIND WING

    May 21, 2020 6 minutes

    When did RRD see the potential in bringing the wing to the line-up?

    Well, it was the first time I tried it! I actually made a prototype in June 2019 as I thought that it would be interesting to try it out, and that’s what we did. The first impression was great… I thought it would have been kind of like a little toy to have fun with, but I was wrong, because when you actually used it with a proper foil, you could actually start to plane at very low speeds with the wing. It’s a phenomenal piece of gear. Then when I first tried it on the Pocket Rocket 180 with the KSH hydrofoil, I immediately understood that there was huge potential.

    We feature Camille and Julien Bouyer having a lot of fun on the wing in this issue. Are they primary test pilots, and who else got a run at the Wind Wing before it went into production?

    Well, the Wind Wing

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