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The UK's only hang glider manufacturer. We build hang gliders from sky floaters to high performance competition wings and wings for sub-70 nanolight trikes. To support the latest in hang glider development please see my Patreon: https://www. patreon.com/hgdev To find out more about the sport of hanggliding please check out: https://www. hanggliding.co.uk For our online shop for gliders, parts and accessories please visit: https://www. avianonline.co.uk # hanggliding searchable

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@avian@mstdn.business · Mar 06, 2026

A lot of engineering design is about trade-offs, and hang gliders are no exception. Sometimes though, it is possible to do things differently and better. We're really pleased to announce the Dynamic Cross Link (DXL) concept, the Puma is set to be the first glider to benefit, but more will follow. There's a full video which will Premiere on YouTube tomorrow morning (Saturday 7th, 10am UK time), please tune in for that, for the moment, there's a quick trailer on there. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGanSCcUdk4

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This #freecadfriday I've been finding @freecad@social.freecad.org useful for designing a logo for our new Dynamic Cross Link (DXL) system. I know something like #blender would probably be a more suita

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The UK's only hang glider manufacturer. We build hang gliders from sky floaters to high performance competition wings and wings for sub-70 nanolight trikes. To support the latest in hang glider development please see my Patreon: https://www. patreon.com/hgdev To find out more about the sport of hanggliding please check out: https://www. hanggliding.co.uk For our online shop for gliders, parts and accessories please visit: https://www. avianonline.co.uk # hanggliding searchable

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@avian@mstdn.business · Mar 06, 2026

@freecad@social.freecad.org If anyone has suggestions for the Appearance settings to make the X look more metallic then please let me know. The logo is supposed to visually echo the noseplates.

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The UK's only hang glider manufacturer. We build hang gliders from sky floaters to high performance competition wings and wings for sub-70 nanolight trikes. To support the latest in hang glider development please see my Patreon: https://www. patreon.com/hgdev To find out more about the sport of hanggliding please check out: https://www. hanggliding.co.uk For our online shop for gliders, parts and accessories please visit: https://www. avianonline.co.uk # hanggliding searchable

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The UK's only hang glider manufacturer. We build hang gliders from sky floaters to high performance competition wings and wings for sub-70 nanolight trikes. To support the latest in hang glider development please see my Patreon: https://www. patreon.com/hgdev To find out more about the sport of hanggliding please check out: https://www. hanggliding.co.uk For our online shop for gliders, parts and accessories please visit: https://www. avianonline.co.uk # hanggliding searchable

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@avian@mstdn.business · Mar 06, 2026

This #freecadfriday I've been finding @freecad@social.freecad.org useful for designing a logo for our new Dynamic Cross Link (DXL) system. I know something like #blender would probably be a more suitable tool for this sort of thing, but I'm so much more competent in FreeCAD that I could knock up a 3D logo and animate it for my video in about half an hour instead of having to (re)learn Blender. I like the effect.

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The UK's only hang glider manufacturer. We build hang gliders from sky floaters to high performance competition wings and wings for sub-70 nanolight trikes. To support the latest in hang glider development please see my Patreon: https://www. patreon.com/hgdev To find out more about the sport of hanggliding please check out: https://www. hanggliding.co.uk For our online shop for gliders, parts and accessories please visit: https://www. avianonline.co.uk # hanggliding searchable

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@avian@mstdn.business · Feb 01, 2026

@cccpresser@chaos.social you don't need to build it yourself! Just go to https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/releases and you can download pre built executables for Linux, Mac or Windows. There's the v1.1 Release Candidate there and also even more cutting edge weekly builds.

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The UK's only hang glider manufacturer. We build hang gliders from sky floaters to high performance competition wings and wings for sub-70 nanolight trikes. To support the latest in hang glider development please see my Patreon: https://www. patreon.com/hgdev To find out more about the sport of hanggliding please check out: https://www. hanggliding.co.uk For our online shop for gliders, parts and accessories please visit: https://www. avianonline.co.uk # hanggliding searchable

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@avian@mstdn.business · Jan 30, 2026

@Acionna@piaille.fr @FreeCAD@fosstodon.org yes, although I'd like to be able to do the meshing, case setup, and visualisation within FreeCAD (as already implemented for Calculix). I want to use Code Aster as it's better for shells (I need composites). I haven't used Code Saturne much, I mostly use OpenFOAM for full field CFD, through the excellent CfdOF workbench which does all the preproc. I still mostly postproc with Paraview. What are you using Code Saturne for?

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The UK's only hang glider manufacturer. We build hang gliders from sky floaters to high performance competition wings and wings for sub-70 nanolight trikes. To support the latest in hang glider development please see my Patreon: https://www. patreon.com/hgdev To find out more about the sport of hanggliding please check out: https://www. hanggliding.co.uk For our online shop for gliders, parts and accessories please visit: https://www. avianonline.co.uk # hanggliding searchable

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@avian@mstdn.business · Jan 30, 2026

@Acionna@piaille.fr @FreeCAD@fosstodon.org Brilliant! For some time I've been trying to integrate Code Aster into FreeCAD, although not getting as far with it as I'd like: https://github.com/AMRC-Composites/FreeCAD-CodeAster/tree/main

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The UK's only hang glider manufacturer. We build hang gliders from sky floaters to high performance competition wings and wings for sub-70 nanolight trikes. To support the latest in hang glider development please see my Patreon: https://www. patreon.com/hgdev To find out more about the sport of hanggliding please check out: https://www. hanggliding.co.uk For our online shop for gliders, parts and accessories please visit: https://www. avianonline.co.uk # hanggliding searchable

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The UK's only hang glider manufacturer. We build hang gliders from sky floaters to high performance competition wings and wings for sub-70 nanolight trikes. To support the latest in hang glider development please see my Patreon: https://www. patreon.com/hgdev To find out more about the sport of hanggliding please check out: https://www. hanggliding.co.uk For our online shop for gliders, parts and accessories please visit: https://www. avianonline.co.uk # hanggliding searchable

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@avian@mstdn.business · Jan 30, 2026

Continuing my series of posts on the development work we've been doing so far, this one is about the frame and how it works to give good handling: https://www.patreon.com/posts/149280801

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