Equipment

The spanish company, Windtech is entering the acro scene with their new wing, the Loop. Info from Windtech's website:

We are releasing a revolutionary new freestyle paraglider which will satisfy the needs of even the most demanding acro pilot… the Loop 17.

This XXX-small glider is only 17 m2, but with an aspect ratio of 6.3 it's the highest A/R acro glider on the market - making it possible it to convert from one manoeuvre to another with loads of energy!!!

After the Hypocane and the crazy small Velocity, Wings of Change created a new acro glider, the Acrominator.

The new ACROMINATOR is finished.
Probably the only glider on market, able to fly all actual acro manouvers with the safety and the simplicity of an intermediate. Designed not only for professionals, but also for

APCO joined the acro market releasing a new, powerful machine, the Twister. The glider is making all the maneuvers very nice and stable like Helicopter, Rythmic SAT and also Infinity Tumbling. The Twister is already in production and will be available at the end of september. The first official presentation of the glider will be at Coupe Icare, in St. Hillaire at this weekend.

End of last year our acro team wished to get an extreme dynamic but nevertheless controllable glider made especially for acro. And of course - they didn't want to abstain from performance of the CIDAN - the glider they used successfully for acro till today. So the first prototypes of NIKITA were designed all-out for pure performance and dynamic. We improved them step by step in systematic team work to make them controllable. The result is an extreme dynamic acro glider which remains manageable for good acro pilots also in extreme flight situations.

There are only few mounths till the the beginning of the competition season so for the companies it's time to release their new acro gliders.

Improving the Razor (the prototype what Antoine Montant and Pål Hamar Rognøy compete with last year) Gradient made a new wing called Seven.

Description from the re-designed Gradient homepage:

Offering the G-FORCE U-Turn became accepted as the leading manufacturer of acrogliders in the world. Now the Generation G-FORCE can be glad to look foreward to the successor: The G-FORCE 360 now is available. Therewith U-Turn provides the basis to update the success story. The Three-Sixty offers more dynamic, reacts more directly and willingly to any steering activities of the pilot and is more agile in the overall handling. “Just one step more uncompromising acro” designer Ernst Strobl explains .