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Where does the time go?!  It's crazy that we are to the end of another flying season up here in Canada. We've been working hard on the Vortex this year and have been rewarded with some great successes of late.  It's been a tough year personally so progress with the Vortex has been slow and we only took on a couple new students this year.  Both the Vortex development and these new pilots have kept us motivated to get out there as much as we possibly could! I am happy to say that we are the point where we can...

It's May 2024 - we are 4 years into this crazy project!  And we now have 3 models to 'chose' from.  Our original model (now called the Vortex-15 (vx15)) has been working great for even tandem hang gliders, our original goal.  But at 110lbs, it's a little heavy to lug around.  It can tow everything real nice, even paragliders!  We have limiter dial on the controller to reduce the max power available to a tow to reduce the ability to over-tension any pilot. For prices see here In early May 2024, we did our initial testing on the Vortex-11 (vx11)...

The happy news...I finally got my new Sport3 home!  I was denied at the gate leaving Mexico back in February as apparently I didn't get authorization to take it on the plane early enough.  This was my first glider shipment from WW MX so it took some time to figure out the best and most cost effective way to get gliders up here. The sad news...time to sell it. I just have too many gliders! So if you want to save about $1500 on a nice new Sport3-155 that is barely broken in and have it NOW for the prime...

One regret was never making it to WillsWing's Orange California factory...so I just had to get down to see for my own eyes how Rudy was doing in the new WillsWing Mx factory in Valle de Bravo!  Mid-Canadian-Winter, the comp was on, I had holidays free...and it was time to pick up some new gliders fresh from the factory! It was no surprise to anyone that it would take some time for the move to Mexico to happen, get set up, trained up and back up to speed.  After two years since the move, I felt it was time to...

A feature of the Vortex that I am sure goes over-looked by the untrained eye is our Oscillating Ladder Fairlead (aka OLaF).  It is an in-house engineered solution that simply isn't available anywhere else. The boom-style fairlead isn't a new concept - the idea is to have a stable, stationary point out in front of the drum that is rock-solid centered on the drum so the line naturally "level-winds" on the drum.  It is much like how a bobbin on a sewing machine gets wound on nice and even for those sewing enthusiasts out there. The problem lies when the drum...