Hugo Chaboud

On Launch With: Hugo Chaboud

“I contacted every brand. I was almost sitting in the parking lot at Supair...”

19 October, 2026, by Ed Ewing

I started flying when I was 14 years old. My family lived close to Grenoble. I was into kitesurfing before paragliding, but when I discovered paragliding – I switched. 

I’m 27 now and I started to work in paraglider design when I was 20, in 2018. I got a job with Supair in Annecy and helped their designer at the time, Pierre-Yves Alloix, on different designs. I also worked on reserves.

At the same time I was studying mechanical engineering. I split my time: designing and studying. I also studied to be a paragliding instructor, but that was not my passion. My passion was and is design.

I moved from Supair to AirDesign. I met AirDesign’s founder Stefan Stiegler at the Coupe Icare and we got on well. He suggested I move to Austria. He said,...

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