Greetings from Wills Wing!   Thank you for all the encouragement and support that’s come flooding in since the last communication in June! We truly believe our Wills Wing community has the most incredible, loyal, and supportive pilots out there – and for that we cannot thank you enough. We are more committed than ever to building the safest and most fun, competitive, and beautiful gliders available, and we appreciate your patience as we move through this transition.   A lot of exciting things have been happening behind the scenes ..read more

To All of Our Dealers, Customers and Friends, We wish to share with you some important news. During the next two and a half months, we will be finishing up orders currently on the books, winding down operations and preparing to shut down production at our Orange facility as part of a process of closing down the Company. During that same period, we will be continuing work already in progress on developing a plan of support for a new successor entity, the goal of which will be to provide for the continuing supply of Wills Wing products, services and technical support to the hang gliding communit ..read more

Rick Zimbelman, long time Wills Wing employee, passed away suddenly and unexpectedly on May 5th, 2021. Rick had worked for Wills Wing for more than 36 years, first in the shipping department, and then as purchasing agent and manager of the physical plant, until his retirement in June of 2017. If you did business with Wills Wing, either as a customer or as a supplier, at any time between 1980 and 2017, you probably knew Rick, his irrepressible, prankish sense of humor, and his outgoing generosity. We are greatly saddened by his passing. Our hearts go out to his wife Susie, and to all of his fri ..read more

Long time Hang Gliding instructor, dealer and friend of ours Paul Voight sends this message about a potentially serious issue with your reserve parachute system. On two occasions now, during reserve repackings-clinics, one just yesterday, one a couple seasons ago, have encountered the following SERIOUS issue regarding reserve safety pins: Apparently some pilots (or re-packers) change out the bungees for fatter gauge bungees.  This fat stuff is hard to pass through a grommet even when new. Old bungee hardens and I’ve had pilots trying to do mock deployments, where the chute handle pins com ..read more

Our new Carbon Fiber Stingers are now available for purchase. These are made with 100% Carbon Fiber Prepreg at our production facility here in Orange, California. The T3 Carbon Fiber Stinger has the same geometry as the previous model, but features a reinforced tip and embossed “whoosh” logo. The 42mm Carbon Fiber Stinger is all new! It features the same tip shape as the T3 version but tapers to fit the smaller diameter kneel of the Sport 3 and U2. Both are lighter then the stock 7075 Aluminum version. They are available as stand alone parts or as upgrades for new glider purchases. 40B ..read more

The response to the Sport 3 ‘Monarch’ pattern has been huge! It’s been really enjoyable to see the creativity in our community as these sails work their way through the shop. We love building beautiful, colorful creations and these gliders really stand out! Many have asked for the same pattern for other gliders so, by popular demand, we have made a ‘Monarch’ pattern for the Falcon 4. Not only that but we are also offering it as a free upgrade on all Falcon 4 orders for the rest of 2020! This pattern is also available for the Falcon Tandem but the trailing edge panel will be made from 240MT, so ..read more

Save $1200 or more on upgrading your T2C to a T3 This is a limited time offer from Wills Wing and participating dealers October 15, 2020 Now through November 30th, we are offering extraordinary savings on upgrading a T2C to a T3.  The upgrade includes a T3 UV Mylar sail, bearing tip airframe retrofit, speed battens, carbon raked tips, batten modifications to T3 lengths, new bottom sidewires, VG service, sail remove and replace, airframe inspection and service, and factory or qualified dealer test flight. This offer is available direct from the factory and through a limited number of deal ..read more

Dave Aldrich has just released a new film, “Dreaming Awake with The Monarchs” so we thought it might be fun to offer Dan Gravage’s beautiful “Monarch” Sport 3 bottom surface pattern for a limited time. There is no extra cost for the Sport 3 Race models and $330 option for the base model. You may select your own colors in V170 cloth for each of the colored bottom surface panels shown, as identified on the downloadable order form (.pdf) Note: This pattern works best with an all-white top surface (panels 3 & 4), or with a clear laminate in those panels, as this results in the most vibrant and ..read more

222.22 Miles in the Owens Valley This flight was a dream come true for me.  For six years I’ve been chasing the out-and-back world record, and this year, all the pieces of the puzzle finally came together beautifully. My previous attempts had ended prematurely for a number of reasons – thunder storms on course line, a NOTAM due to a nearby forest fire, a harness pitch cord failure, and running out of daylight (another way of saying I had been flying too slowly).  It takes a lot of things to go right to have success, and one significant thing going wrong can be the end of it all. On ..read more

Things are pretty crazy and uncertain right now. There’s no doubt that just about every industry in the world is getting hit hard by this pandemic and hang gliding certainly isn’t excluded in that. Wills Wing and most of our dealers have been on “lock-down” in one form or another for the last couple of months, not able to build gliders, do tandem discovery flights or give lessons. The situation seems dire but I’m a “lemons into lemonade” kind of guy and think there’s reason to be optimistic. We can make the best of a bad situation and possibly even benefit from it. One reason to be optimistic ..read more