Let’s face it. Most paramotors today are still designed for convenience and cheap manufacturing using old-school methods without testing. Many use inadequately sized fasteners, metal-on-metal moving connections, and generally incorrectly applied engineering principles. Few manufacturers perform structural testing on their paramotors, let alone applying structural design from the beginning. 

We believe this is unacceptable. 

We designed the Iris Infinity using modern engineering tools and technologies. Structural components go through dozens of hours of simulations and refinement. We verify the design with real-world break testing and extensive in-flight testing. Rather than building something and seeing if it breaks in the field (especially by a customer), we set a standard and strive to achieve it. 

For example, we designed our aluminum swing arms with a target breaking strength of 1600 lbs on the plate alone. With a few refinements, we overshot the engineered target to over 1900 lbs with riser offset blocks that add twisting forces. Even after the metal deformed permanently by twisting, the swing arm safely holds a load of over 1300 lbs without a notable hang angle change. This number is higher than many other swing arms on the market, even after the swing arm has failed.