Insight: The new Ozone Photon with designer Luc Armant

[@alexraymont2052]

Luc is the paragliding design master of the last 15 years. Great to hear from him. Good questions Marcus, thanks.

[@lexrobe_fly]

What a great mind in our sport. Really great we have people like him moving things significantly forward in so many areas. Looking forward to fly one as we now have come a long way with 10 years of refinement, since the very first 6.5 AR 2liner, the Peak 3. Only real downside was the climb in weak stuff, otherwise almost a bullet-proof wing which got me totally hooked on 2liner flying 😃Really keen on seeing how Ozone got that sorted - and ordered one 😝 Thanks for this great interview!

[@twpayne]

Fantastic informative interview, thanks!

[@xcmag]

Glad you enjoyed it Tom

[@FrediBach]

All I want for spring is that Dyneema X-Alps Photon. Ah, one can dream ... 😀

[@StefJuncker]

Well done Luc. Should be really good to fly. Why the advance style winglets? Stef Juncker

[@Itsallgoodtogo]

With hair like this you know this man only cares about PG :D Legend!

[@HelloFlyingKK]

Nice wing❤， When will we have Rush 7 ? And will it have winglets?

[@ozoneswiftak]

So, its like a Alpina, but two liner with fin on tops of wing ends

[@tartaria936]

what he says about winglets. does it apply also for advance winglets which are more to the sides?

[@MKHNitro]

Would love to read an objective comparison between the Ozone Photon and the Advance Sigma 11

[@xcmag]

We expect to have a Photon for review soon, and I am sure Ziad will be testing as well so hopefully you will get some answers soon

[@redhawk9883]

❤💯

[@vikingforties]

Did I hear that right? At 2m 30s, Luc says ~15cm / second difference (in sink rate ?) compared to the Delta 4.

[@madeupwithit]

I thought that sounded like a lot too 😮

[@stephennoble741]

Ozone said the same for the delta4, a 12cm/s improvement on the delta3

[@michelepalma9218]

@@stephennoble741 was it true?

[@amirflyer]

👍🔥

[@makaronie08]

8:08 Bro you could tell the over ambitious Youngsters: Or New Beas a very important lesson... Dont tuch your brakes while using the Speedbar, BRa!

[@madeupwithit]

A lot of people say a 2-liner should be flown with a seat board harness. How did you find it with the GTO lite? I find the GTO low on weight shift but ok with an Alpina.

[@xcmag]

Hi John I only got to fly it for 30 minutes, as was aware of the queue of people wanting to try it and it was in early thermals. However I found no problem in putting the Photon where I wanted in the thermals flying the GTO and felt right at home on it very quickly. Looking forward to getting to know it better when the review wing arrives.

[@madeupwithit]

@@xcmag Thanks for the info. I look forward to the review.

[@mmmmkkk]

lol, who says that? I doubt even 30% of zeolites, OXAs, klimbers, Scalas, etc are flown with a searboard. It might be not for everyone, but well, that's how it works.

[@vikingforties]

I fly an X-Alps 3 with a Lightness 2 harness which is seatboardless. Flies fine, but it's noticeable when the chest strap is at loosest setting.

[@craspair]

mmmh winglet for spiral neutrality doesn`t seems a great sales argument, cause i think if you fly EN-C you should knonw already spiral and exit through SIV course...

[@esquenetval]

Pas compliqué de faire mieux qu'une mantra m7 raté avec un bord d attaque mort après 10h de vol...kzbin.info/www/bejne/iYXToX2LmLaAqM0