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MSNBC visits Eagle Paragliding

Eagle Paragliding in the New York Times
MSNBC Paragliding VideoMSNBC visited Eagle Paragliding for a one day Paragliding Lesson at our world class training hill in Santa Barbara. Watch The Video!


Eagle Paragliding in the New York Times
Article written by pilot who trained with Eagle Paragliding Follow along as Award Winning Instructor Rob Sporrer, takes New York Times writer & paragliding newbie Bill Becher to school. >>> Read More


Eagle Paragliding Team

The level of US competition pilots has come far in the past few years. Most of the top ranked US pilots fly on the Eagle Team. Visit our Eagle Team Pilot page to check up on all the pilots who fly comps in the United States and abroad.


Instructor of the year honor

Eagle Paragliding's chief Instructor Rob Sporrer received USHPA's Instructor of the Year Award in 2002. Every year USHPA issues the award to the person making the biggest contributions to our sport in the United States.



Airwave Gliders

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Eagle Paragliding has been the exclusive importer for Airwave Paragliders since 2005. Airwave has developed a reputation of designing some of the highest performance paragliders in their respective LTF/EN rating classes.


Airwave opened its doors in 1979. The company was originally a Hang Glider manufacturer, but expanded into paragliding in 1989 under the leadership of Bruce Goldsmith, 2007 World Paragliding Champion. The company has built a reputation of safe, quality gliders. Airwave paragliders are designed and tested in Greolieres, France, and manufactured in the Far East. The Grelieres design and testing location is ideal due to its year round flying conditions.


Airwave provides a wide variety of quality paragliders ranging from low end DHV 1's to top of the line Competition gliders, speed flying wings, acro wings, and tandem gliders.


Below is a list of Paragliders manufactured by Airwave:

Airwave Alpine Extreme - LTF 1 (lightweight)
Airwave Gecko - LTF 1
Airwave Wave 2 - LTF 1-2
Airwave Sport 4 - LTF 1-2
Airwave Cobra - LTF 2
Airwave Magic 5 - LTF 2-3
Airwave Magic FR4 - Competition
Airwave Burn - Acro
Airwave Slingshot - Acro
Airwave Tandem - Tandem



To purchase an Airwave product, visit our online Store
Airwave Website


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