LittleCloud La Mouette

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LittleCloud, one of the pioneering brands in the parakite world, is now available at ParakiteStore.com with their legendary model, the La Mouette.

La Mouette: The entry level Parakite featuring progressive reflex profile by LittleCloud and semi-closed cell technology for unparalleled control and performance!

La Mouette (Seagull) is LittleCloud’s most accessible Parakite. A soaring machine designed to be used with the angle of attack control though the toggle-what we call Kiterisers, ie speed-control at your fingertips.

It benefits from Tom’s 25 years’ experience in Miniwing and Kite design!

Extremely intuitive, easy to use, fun to pilot, it will put a big smile on your face! Its gentle handling, progressive response, moderate dive, and contained roll make it the ideal wing for getting familiar with parakiting. It remains dedicated to pilots who already have a minimum of experience in paragliding or mini-wing flying.

The range is divided into 2 groups:

– The light wind glider: Designed to let you enjoy the lightest breezes of air. With 5.9 aspect ratio, we focused on efficiency and handling. Everything is optimised, from the planform to the fabric blend to offer you the best experience in the air.

– The medium to stronger wind gliders: so you can play when the wind picks up. With 5.2 aspect ratio, we focused on extremely precise handling with very neutral and instant reactions.

Design : As always we rose up the design expectations… making a glider that just works isn’t enough for us! The challenge was to keep the LC feeling, but add more stability at low angles of attack while keeping very high efficiency with of course a very high level of safety (still, Safety comes from both the glider and the pilot). Stability is one key point, but not the only one. La Mouette is not design with an “Auto pilot” mode. As any aircraft with human onboard, it need a pilot that fly in conscience.

Progressive Reflex by LC : Using a strong reflex profile is one solution to make gliders very stable, but it has 3 strong downsides: lack of feeling, poor efficiency, and a very sudden stalling behaviour.
We’ve been redefining the Reflex effect in controlling the Cm curve (reflex effect in short) to adjust it when you need and not all the time.

Our Progressive Reflex Profile is seeing its Cm increasing when the angle of attack is decreasing (as well as when the speed increase). In short, the more you accelerate, the more stability you get from the profile. With a very efficient profile, we are able to keep the aspect ratio moderate, so more accessibility to use smaller sizes which is easier to handle in stronger wind. Better handling = more fun! We’ve successfully managed to reduce brake pressure. On top of this, with this magic airfoil, even at the top of the windrange, you will always be able to stay in control! Attention, once again, a very stable profile does not magically turn a turbulent air mass into a calm air mass!

Semi Closed cell technology : This transfer from some of Tom’s kite design technology into this glider helps efficiency by improving the Leading Edge airflow and the inside pressure of the canopy. Parasitic movements are reduced, therefore efficiency rises up! The location of the open cells and their dimensions are calculated to not decrease the safety features of the glider. The total area of the inlets is reduced by 33% compared to a regular LC glider. This is still more than enough for the canopy to inflate properly, or re-inflate if a collapse occurs. This regulates the inflation speed which at the top of the range makes the rise much less powerful and much more comfortable and safe. On top of all that, we found that it looks really cool too.

Light by essence : As always, we’ve been focusing on solving design problems at the roots. This results in a very simple canopy, with just what is needed to work efficiently, safely, and in a very intuitive mode. Light, low volume, so you can bring them with you anywhere without needing too much room! No compromise on durability has been made, thanks to our huge experience on soaring glider design.

Kiterisers : The Kiterisers have been developed with the best material on the market (Ronstan Orbit block, dyneema/Kevlar webbing blend). You can control your angle of attack with your hands, instantly. That means you can adjust your speed and the power of the glider at any time. The design mixes a very stiff A riser and soft dyneema rope for the rest. This offers a great ease of use and reduces tangling problems on preparation. The Kiterisers have an adjustable limiter so that every pilot can adjust the hands up position during their learning process. We also implemented a solution to get 3 positions for the T bar to improve the ergonomics for smaller sized pilots. The handles are flashy red so you can locate them in the blink of an eye.

Specifications

Wind Range

Wind Range is indicative only – based on intermediate / advanced pilot of 55-75kgs

Wind Range is indicative only – based on intermediate / advanced pilot of 75-95kgs

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