Paragliders with advertising messages

Swing produces more than 100 sponsor gliders annually and can therefore draw on an extensive wealth of experience.

Example of a sewn-in logo:

There are basically two ways to add advertising messages and logos to a glider: an adhesive can be used or they can be or sewn in. It is mainly the size and type of lettering which determines which option is more appropriate.

Adhesive lettering / logos

Example of an adhesive logo

Advantages:

• The logo can be removed.
• The logo can be made separately from the glider
• There are many different colour options (approx. 20 different colours)
• Particularly recommended if the lettering is smaller (up to 30cm high) or very fine and/or very curved

Swing can also make gliders in one colour for this method (at the special colour surcharge of € 100) . More examples and informations: www.gleitschirmbeschriftung.de (German Site).

Disadvantages:

• Affixing something to the canopy increases its weight and, in the case of large lettering, may invalidate the DHV classification
• The increased canopy weight may negatively affect launch behaviour
• Collapse behaviour may deteriorate
• Colours are not very bright because the canopy is double-layered
• Traces of adhesive are usually left if the logo is subsequently removed, to which dirt may get stuck.

Sewn-in lettering / logos

Advantages:

• Negligible increase in canopy weight
• DHV certification is not affected
• No change to flight behaviour
• The colours are usually better
• Particularly recommended for large and thick lettering
• Likely to be cheaper for large writing.

Disadvantages:

• Limited choice of colours. The colours available are black, white, red, blue, light blue, yellow, orange and grey. For the Everest, only blue, white and red are available because light-weight fabric is used.
• Logos/lettering cannot be removed later (generally not recommended)

Combined lettering (adhesives and sewn-in lettering/logos)

It has possible to have large areas sewn-in and adhesives for smaller details.
Example:

Page overview

1) Using a paraglider for advertising
2) Gliders with special colors
3) Paragliders with advertising messages
4)"My Custom Paraglider " - A manual, Step-by-Step
5) Questions to price/ avaiablity etc.
6) Downloadlist / plan forms