Hannes Papesh started to build paragliders more than 20 years ago. It all started with the passion for flying and the fascination for designing. Hannes sew the first wings on his mothers sewing machine. It didn't take too long, until NOVA was one of the biggest and most influencal brands on the market. 

The focus has always been on gliders for recreational pilots, as well as on high performance wings, which could raise the bar in terms of performance a couple of times.  

Hannes is always looking for new challenges, and therefore he started to design acro gliders which were performing quite well from the very beginning.

"Quite well" is not good enough, and that's why Hannes was looking for a cooperation to build outstanding acro gliders. Finally it was no one less than Raul Rodriguez, who liked the idea of developing his own acro gliders together with Hannes Papesh.

 hannes@nova-wings.com