Bruce Goldsmith

For the American sailor, see Bruce Goldsmith (sailor).

Bruce Goldsmith is a British paraglider pilot, paraglider designer, and the 2007 Paragliding World Champion. He won the title at Manilla in Australia, flying an Airwave Magic FR3.[1][2]

He has been British Paragliding Champion three times, most recently in 2004.[3] He has also been British Hang Gliding champion twice.[citation needed] He was also ranked #1 paraglider pilot in the World in 2007 by the FAI. He held the World Record declared flight to Goal of 275Km in 2004 in Texas, USA.

Goldsmith is by profession a civil engineer, who started designing hang gliders in 1979 and paragliders in 1989 [4] and was the designer of paragliders for Airwave Gliders for 20 years and designed the Magic, Scenic, Sport, Ten and the Wave.[5] He set up the paragliding division of Airwave - which was already a manufacturer of hang gliders - in 1989. He left to found Ozone Paragliders in 1998, and was Managing Director, designing Ozone's first 4 paragliders: Electron, Proton, Octane and Cosmic Rider. He returned to Airwave in 2000.[6] He moved to the Swiss paraglider manufacturer Advance Thun in 2010 and then in 2012 set up a brand under his own name: Bruce Goldsmith Design or BGD.[citation needed]

He lives in the south of France with his wife Arna Reynisdottir and their three children.

  1. ^ "FAI". fai.org. Retrieved 17 March 2016.
  2. ^ "Manilla 2007 > Home". manilla2007.com. Archived from the original on 1 February 2008. Retrieved 17 March 2016.
  3. ^ PGComps Archived July 9, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ Flight bio Archived June 20, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ Bertrand, Noel; Rene Coulon; et al: World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2003-04, page 12. Pagefast Ltd, Lancaster OK, 2003. ISSN 1368-485X
  6. ^ "no.net". no.net. Archived from the original on 23 March 2016. Retrieved 16 March 2016.