Show Notes
We finally managed to sit down with Nico at AWSI this year. This was a goal we never achieved in 2025, despite having a very brief chat with him in a café queue the day before leaving. The F-One parawings have been awesome products and we were really interested to hear how the conversation had gone getting him involved with the brand at that time.
Nico gives us a run though his background prior to F-one and the design process he's gone through with the Frigate V1, Quest V1 and now the all new Frigate V2. He opens up on how its been moving from working under his own business and now working with the Salles under the F-One banner.
Another of our chats from this years AWSI show - with a good few more to come yet - hopefully the addition of video this year is of interest to some folks!
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