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FREE FLIGHT WINGS

Climb the mountain, and fly like a bird with light, portable wings. The dream of Icarus, Leonardo da Vinci, Otto Lilienthal, Francis Rogallo, David Barish..., and also ours, made real!

Design and construction of free flight wings (paragliders, hang gliders, and parachutes). Extensive experience in this field, having designed numerous models for individuals and various companies in the sector. To learn more, visit my specific website for this field: LABORATORI D'ENVOL

Paragliders are designed with the LEparagliding software from Laboratori d'envol. This program is written entirely in Fortran, reads a text data file and draws 2D DXF plans ready for the laser cutting machine and 3D for model visualisation. Of course, LEparagliding is free software (free as freedom) according to the principles of GNU. And therefore most of my wing designs have the word gnu in their name, and those that don't, are also free according to GNU ideas :) The main wing types are as follows:

Classic double-surface paragliders for free flight
Ultralight single-skin paragliders
Speed gliders
Paramotor wings
Hang gliders
Skydiving parachutes
Reserve parachutes for emergency situations
Drone parachutes
Heavy load parachutes

Some examples:

Figure 1. gnuLAB2 "Barretina" paraglider in January 2011. Test flights at Alfès and Àger.

Figure 2. gnuBowsprit crossbar-less hang glider project.

Figure 3. gnuA6 paraglider according to 2021 project.

Figure 5. Variable geometry study and 1000 m2 parachute project for gnuSoyuz space capsule. 2016 project.

For designing hang gliders we use the LEhanggliding program and for parachutes LEparachute