Bruce Goldsmith

Bruce Goldsmith is a British paraglider pilot, paraglider designer and civil engineer who won the 2007 Paragliding World Championship at Manilla in Australia, flying an Airwave Magic FR3. He has been British paragliding champion three times, most recently in 2004, and British hang gliding champion twice, and the FAI ranked him the number one paraglider pilot in the world in 2007. In 2004 he held the world record for declared flight to goal at 275 km in Texas. He began designing hang gliders in 1979 and paragliders in 1989, started the paragliding division of Airwave, founded Ozone Paragliders in 1998, worked with Advance from 2010, and in 2012 launched his own brand, Bruce Goldsmith Design.