Bruce Goldsmith

Who is Bruce Goldsmith?

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

He has been British champion three times, most recently in 2004. He has also been British hang gliding champion twice. Skywings magazine

Goldsmith is by profession a civil engineer, who started designing hang gliders in 1979 and paragliders in 1989 and was the designer of paragliders for Airwave for 20 years. 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 1999, but returned to Airwave in 2000. He moved to the Swiss paraglider manufacturer Advance in 2010 and has now set up a brand under his own name: Bruce Goldsmith Design. See www.flybgd.com for more information.

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