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Wills
Wing Team Pilot Profiles and Blogs
Welcome to the Wills Wing team blog. Check here for regular updates on the lives, travels, and flights of our factory pilots along with information from Wills Wing's design team.
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Dustin Martin
Dustin Martin began his flying career in sailplanes at the age of 14! He made the transition to hang gliders at age 16. While he calls the skies over Arizona "home", he's mostly nomadic making competition forays down to Ecuador and Brazil every few months. In 2008, Dustin cracked off the third longest XC flight ever - 410 miles narrowly missing the world record mark. |
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Jeff O'Brien
Jeff O'Brien revolutionized his life when he learned to hang glide in 1998. He dropped most other interests and promptly moved to Utah to fly full time. He's flown hang gliders on five continents and began competing in 2005. Jeff is probably most known for his wing mounted photography which can be seen in hang gliding publications and press worldwide. |
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Jeff Shapiro
Jeff Shapiro is a renaissance man who's spent quite a bit of his existence at height. Jeff learned to fly hang gliders at 17 and he's been flying for 17. He's a falconer who trains raptors to hunt the mountains near his Montana home. He's climbed at or near the hardest ratings on rock, ice, and mixed terrain with many first ascents and repeats of routes in the Alaska Range, Glacier Park, and Yosemite. |
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Zac Majors
Zac "Zippy" Majors is the reigning US National Champion and calls California home. This "mountain specialist" has been steeped in Utah XC during his seventeen years of flying and has been cracking off impressive flights in the Rockies, Wasatch front, and Sierras. He's also owned and operated a hang gliding school for the past fourteen years. Zippy's recent rise in the competition ranks has been impressive, with a notable fourth place finish and the top US finisher in the recent worlld championships. |
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Sara and Seth
Seth Warren, filmmaker and KAVU Minister of Lifestyle, recently asked Sara, "Do you want to learn to fly?" Sara Close, just off a 35-day sailing expedition and ready to explore another of nature's elements, said, "Yes please." After 5 weeks of instruction and filmmaking at Wallaby Ranch in Florida, Seth and Sara have taken to the mountains to continue this film project on learning to fly. First stop, the lovely hills of Montana. |
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Roberto Nichele
Roberto Nichele or "Swiss Nick" as most know him is a Swiss Team member who's been flying for over two decades. Nick found competition hang gliding in 2000 and since has spent a season each year traveling the corners of the world enjoying, "the closest kind of flying to birds men will ever enjoy." Nick's always wearing a optimistic enthusiastic smile at competitions, and can be heard chatting in several languages. Nick has been the official Wills Wing dealer in Switzerland since 2002. |
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Steven Pearson
Steven has been a managing partner at Wills Wing in charge of product design and engineering for over 30 years. Steven shares his passion for hang gliding with his wife Lisa and daughter Kelsey. |
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