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  • 三组绳 | 气室数:35 | 展弦比:4.9 | 重量:4.6kg起 —— XXS号(EN/LTF A认证)

    PRION 6 —— 逃离平凡

    Certification: 三组绳 | 气室数:35 | 展弦比:4.9 | 重量:4.6kg起 —— XXS号(EN/LTF A认证)


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  • 三组绳 | 49气室 | 展弦比:5.17 | 重量:3.4kg起 |

    AONIC Light - "A" High-Light

    Certification: EN/LTF A认证


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    Three-liner | 49 cells | 5.17 aspect ratio | Weight 4.75 kg - Size S

    AONIC - Take your skills to “A” higher level

    Certification: EN/LTF A


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  • 三组绳 | 气室数:51 | 展弦比:5.17 | 重量:4.2 公斤起 - XXS 号

    ION 7 - Versatile by design

    Certification: 三组绳 | 气室数:51 | 展弦比:5.17 | 重量:4.2 公斤起 - XXS 号


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    三组绳 | 气室数:51 | 展弦比:5.17 | 重量:3.4 公斤起 - XXXS 号(EN/LTF B)

    ION 7 Light - Lightweight versatility

    Certification: 三组绳 | 气室数:51 | 展弦比:5.17 | 重量:3.4 公斤起 - XXXS 号(EN/LTF B)


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  • 2.5组绳 | 66气室 | 展弦比:5.5 | 重量:5.1 公斤起 - XS 号

    MENTOR 7 - The XC machine

    Certification: EN/LTF-B级别


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    2.5组绳 | 66气室 | 展弦比:5.5 | 重量:3.65 公斤起 - XXS 号

    MENTOR 7 Light – Hybrid 2.5-liner

    Certification: EN/LTF-B级别


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  • “两组绳” | 气室数:65 | 展弦比:6.10 | 重量:4.0kg起——XXS号(EN C/LTF D)

    CODEX — 平易近人的“两组绳”性能

    Certification: “两组绳” | 气室数:65 | 展弦比:6.10 | 重量:4.0kg起——XXS号(EN C/LTF D)


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  • Two-liner | cells: 65 | aspect ratio: 6.1 | weight: from 3.3 kg – Size XXS

    VORTEX– Ultralight Efficiency

    Certification: EN C/LTF D


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  • 两组绳 | 气室数:65 | 展弦比:6.7 | 重量:3.15kg - 尺码17| EN/LTF D

    XENON – Pure racing spirit

    Certification: 两组绳 | 气室数:65 | 展弦比:6.7 | 重量:3.15kg - 尺码17| EN/LTF D


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  • 三组绳 | 气室数: 33 | 展弦比: 4.5 | 重量: 1.6 kg – 尺码 12

    BANTAM 2 – Built for para-alpinists

    Certification: EN/LTF D


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  • 三组绳 | 气室:35 | 展弦比:4.9 | 重量:2.41kg起 – 16平

    DOUBLESKIN 2 – 超轻实用

    Certification: EN/LTF A


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  • 4-Liner | Projected Area: 34.5 | Approved Takeoff Weight: 110–220 kg

    Certification: EN/LTF B


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Amazingly simple – simply amazing!

[April Fool] NOVA PROTOZON - Challenging the sport of paragliding

We recently astonished the paragliding world with the PHANTOM, a low-end EN B wing with a staggering 99 cells, but a demanding production process. Still in the design stage, with the PROTOZON we are going in the opposite direction. The PROTOZON will be the first single-cell glider ever. Additionally, it will feature unique innovative fabric technologies, like 3D woven Monoaprilid cloth, treated with turbulence-reducing Shark Skin Finish.

 

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PHANTOM

With the PHANTOM, we raised the bar for paraglider construction complexity to a new level. 99 cells in a low-end EN B wing required a radically new design, which combined safety, performance and the sense of flying a high-performance glider in a way previously unknown in paragliding. But the complexity of production is immense.

This, of course, lead to lots of controversy in the paragliding community – as well as within the company. The resulting discussions haunted our chief designer Philipp Medicus' nightly dreams. During one of them, he came up with a brilliant new idea. Lead by the principles of bionic design, he developed the world’s first ever single-cell wing and named it PROTOZON, of course. Nature always has the best answers. You just have to look to the natural world for inspiration.

Following the motto of "reduce-to-the-max", we began our radical simplification concept. After numerous hours at the computer, the PROTOZON started to take shape. We soon realized that: the performance is incredible, the wing weighs very little and the complexity of production is manageable. The PROTOZON is 99 times faster to stitch than its opposite, the PHANTOM.

The design highlight is the ACPT, short for 'Absolutely Constant Pressure Technology': The internal wing pressure is not restricted by cell walls and spreads equally across the entire wing span. We achieved this through the use of the innovative Monoaprilid cloth. This ultramodern fabric was devised in collaboration with the Austrian Textile Technology Centre (TTZ). It features two world firsts - the Monoaprilid fabric is manufactured through 3D weaving, a production technique, which is similarly used to make stand-up paddle boards. The 3D weaving  eliminates the need for additional cells.

The outer surface of the Monoaprilid fabric is also a bionic design. We call it Shark Skin Finish (SSF). SSF is applied as a plasma coating and creates a nanoscale texture on the cloth. Like a shark's skin, micro vortices in the upper layer create a hyper-aerodynamic surface. Thanks to these micro vortices, the air flows over the wing with far less drag than on cloth, which does not use SSF. This has resulted in a marked increase in performance.

Thanks to the simple construction, we managed to reduce the number of line attachment points and therefore the overall line length, resulting in another performance plus. However, we will not stop there! The first PROTOZON prototype was constructed as a one-liner. This increased the performance by a whole glide ratio point. But the handling suffered. And a one-liner isn't easy to accelerate. Roll, pitch and yaw behaviour also need to be improved - so more to come... 

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