Expeditions
Cloudbase Mayhem podcast: Rene Falquier and the ABC's of Glider Design
25-01-2021
In 2020 Rene Falquier spent a year in the BGD design office in the south of France, working on his aeronautics and engineering thesis. He was recently interviewed by Gavin McClurg for his Cloudbase Mayhem podcasts. Gavin wanted to know how a wing comes to fruition. How much is science vs craft? How...
Kagou Flying Boat: Bora Bora (too good to leave!)
07-12-2020
Olivier Laugero and the Kagou Flying Boat have been in Bora Bora in French Polynesia, and they're staying a while longer. It's just too good to leave! Take a look at the fantastic photos he's sent back and you won't doubt their decision. "There are almost no tourists, we have one of the most beautiful...
Base 2 - Love at First Flight
23-10-2020
While hiking in the mountains a young girl finds a phone that dropped from the sky. Looking at the videos in the phone, she attempts to find the pilot who dropped it. #FlyBase2 @flybgd Discover our stunning new high EN/LTF-B! www.flybgd.com
Kiss - Keep it Simple
21-10-2020
For rise-and-shiners, hike-and-flyers, mountain lovers, greet the day with a Kiss, a simple, fun and versatile mountain wing.
Kagou Flying Boat - Crossing from Panama to Marquises Islands
25-09-2020
Olivier, Sophie and Lou continue on their adventure sailing and paragliding around the world onboard Kagou while capturing every inspirational moment on film.
Kagou Flying Boat - Crossing from Panama to Marquises
25-09-2020
Olivier, Sophie and Lou continue on their adventure sailing and paragliding around the world onboard Kagou while capturing every inspirational moment on film.
Explore, Create, Share - BGD Nomads
22-09-2020
WE ARE A GROUP OF DIVERSE INDIVIDUALS UNITED BY A PASSION TO EXPLORE, CREATE AND SHARE. Follow our adventures as we attempt to share them through film and photography.
New Team Pilots!
21-09-2020
We would like to welcome Noe Hannes, Jarno Junnonaho, John Georgosopoulos, and Rene Falquier to the BGD team pilot program! We can't wait to see what they will share with us in the future.
Julien Millot - Flying Les Écrins
07-09-2020
Flying some of the highest peaks in the Alps, Julien explains some insights during a epic vol bivouac adventure around the Massif des Écrins.
Experience Groundlessness - Magic Mo
26-03-2020
Recently, we have all become groundless. We are in times of change and the ability to adapt will make the difference. We hope this film will help you during these times and bring you to a space of freedom you may have never felt before.
Paraglider Maintenance
12-02-2020
Everything you should know about packing, storing, and generally taking care of your paraglider.
Vol et Ski - Challenge - Gate Crashed by the BGD Team
24-01-2020
BGD team pilots Anne-Sophie, Julie, and Sylvain fly the Vol et Ski Challenge - a competition of skiing and precision paragliding where pilots take-off from the top of the ski slope and follow a course involving touch-and-go, touching poles, and many other fun tasks. The weather was perfect and over 60...
Mongolian SEED
20-11-2019
This is what happens when Etienne Cordeau (Flying Frenchies) takes his SEED out for a kite in Mongolia!
Hanging in the Clouds
19-11-2019
Olivier, Sophie, Lou and friends converge in Martinique for a aerial circus extraveganza! You wont be able to not fall in love and get inspired by this adventure family as they show us their story and aerial dance. Hats off to @Shams for the exceptional film-making!
Paraslack & XRW in Oludeniz
18-11-2019
The Flying Franchise head out to the Oludeniz Air Games for a week full of every stunt they could dream up (XRW, Paraslackining, rope jumping,...) Watch this is a compilation of the best.
BGD Weightless 2020
01-10-2019
4-10 January 2020 Join us in warm and colourful Colombia in January 2020 for the third edition of BGD Weightless, the competition where scoring is in weight categories. Roldanillo is an amazing venue: sunshine, grassy launches, masses of landing options, some of the friendliest people on the planet,...
Cure 2 - Technical Features
27-09-2019
From simulations of virtual prototypes to anew B/C steering system discover the Cure 2 and all the technology built into this revolutionary paraglider.
Hitching Flying Frenchies Style
12-09-2019
A lonely Flying Frenchy can't get a ride on a quiet country road until a paramotor flies his way. He grabs a line and gets hoisted high up into the sky.
Cruising over Stromboli
09-09-2019
Cruising in from Volcano, Ant Green took off half way up Stomboli flying over one of the most active volcanoes. The volcano erupted a few times during the flight spewing out lava and causing shock waves from the explosions. A few days later the mountain erupted in one of the most violent eruptions recorded....
The Flying Chairlift - Greenland
25-06-2019
Team pilots Tim and Ant Green fly out to Greenland to realized a adventure of a lifetime - Paramotoring and skiing the west coast of Greenland. They discover the isolated fjords and glaciers of one of the most desolate places on earth while have a hell of a time.
Kossen - 2019
06-06-2019
BGD team pilots take advantage of 3,200m cloudbase during a classic day at Super Paragliding Testival Kossen, Austria. Thousands of pilots decended on this event during one of the largest testivals in the world. BGD showcased their whole range as well as the brand new EN-A Magic.
Fly the Summit - Full Episode - The Green Brothers
29-05-2019
Tim and Ant Green head to Chamonix to break a world record and drop Leo Slemett off on Mont Blanc du Tacul.
PPG trans-Maldives
21-04-2019
During a 1000km open ocean traverse of the Maldives BGD team pilots Ant and Tim Green captures these stunning images of our DGAC certified Echo and Luna PPG wings.
Altitude Jazz Festival with the Flying Frenchies !
01-02-2019
Fly high and play Jazz with the brand new Dual 2 !
Dual 2 -- Technical Features
23-01-2019
Remember that feeling, the first time your feet leave the ground and you are soaring, feet in the clouds, viewing the world from a different perspective? If you could bottle that feeling and share it around … that’s what the DUAL 2 is for – sharing the joy of flight! A clean take-off is absolutely...
Altitude Jazz Festival
23-01-2019
The Flying Frenchies take to the sky over Briancon with musical instruments and paragliders. Check out the spectacle!
Coupe Icare - 2018
30-09-2018
Bright sunshine and fluffy clouds graced this years' Coupe Icare festival where we launched our newest product the EN-B RIOT (the PUNK's lighter twin). Although the colour scheme may change for the final product a few prototypes could be seen flying around the festival. Check out this short video about...
Kossen - 2018
21-05-2018
The Super Paragliding Testival in Kossen Austria has done it again! Probably the only site in all the alps that was flyable everyday awith a epic XC day on Sunday. Pilots from all over flocked to this beautiful valley to test every paraglider under the sun. The new EN-B Punk was handed our in abundance...
EN-B-Punk - Technical Features
25-04-2018
The Punk has loads of new techy bits. Bruce shows us a few in this video!
Stubai - 2018
15-01-2018
Stubai Cup 2018 we officially released our new high EN-B for demo. Our mission to put taste, control, and attitude back into gliders worked. Stubai gave us more amazing flying and we captured the money shots check out this video!
Epic - Live the journey
13-05-2017
When will your journey begin? Camera - Ant Green, Rody Charoud, Maeva Giacometti Voice Over - Alan Watts (Philosopher) Talent - Kārlis Jaunpetrovičs, Signe Lillienskjold Knudsen, Bruce Goldsmith, Timothy Green Music - Lossless - Bright Eyes - Instrumental Edit - Ant Green
Ready for the Worlds
19-04-2017
We just received a brand new DIVA prototype! We are stoked with performance and design. The DIVA is a work in progress and this XS proto is 21sq/m, 7.5 aspect ratio, 4.95kg total weight, 208.8m total line length.
Stubai - 2017
15-01-2017
The 2017 Stubai Cup was a hoot! Perfect flying conditions with pilots climbing to over 3,000m and making brilliant XC flights all over the valley. At the stand we had hundreds of pilots trying our new products. This year we had the chance to meet most of the BGD team, here are a few images of the mini...
Zlatko Koren takes 8th in the X-PYR flying a EN-C Cure!
27-07-2016
Congratulations to Zlatko Koren and Tomaž Bavdaž for placing 8th at the X-Pyr flying the EN-C Cure! Only by foot or in the air they made it 256.5km across the harshest mountains in Spain during one of the most difficult competitions in the world. Amazing!http://www.x-pyr.com/LiveTracking/Ranking.html...
EN-C Cure - Extreme Distances - XC paragliding at it’s best!
23-05-2016
May 21, 2016 brought a south flow of winds aloft to the southern alps making is possible for BGD Pilots Matis Ruhl, Ant Green, Tyr Goldsmith, and Bruce Goldsmith to fly to the Northern Alps on massive 170-240km cross country flights. Tyr's Track - airtribune.com/14952/tracks__40118/live Matis' Track...
Adam - EN-A - Safety in Colors
20-02-2016
The Adam is our EN/LTF-A certified wing, designed for beginners or leisure pilots. Durable Dominico D30 tissue constructs 34 enhanced clean cells into a safe, 4.8kg paraglider.