Paper Wing - Making a Paraglider Part 1 - BANDARRA

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I fly paragliders but never really look at paragliders. I mean I see the lines and cloth and shapes and tabs and all that but I don't, and think most people don't, really really look at a paraglider.

It's an amazing design feat that allows us to soar and cover great distances yet we kind of take it for granted, like a car or a road.

In this impromptu video series I'd like to take the task of designing and building a paraglider, from scratch.

To do that, I plan to take a journey, from the very simple shape of a rectangle of paper, all the way to a full-size man-flying paraglider.

No idea what the road ahead looks like, but I thought it would be a good idea to start small and simple, with paper to try to find out how it can be shaped to bend in two different directions, and what the various factors and parameters might influence.

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