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Thursday, March 28, 2024

Paragliding bringing smiles to children in Honduras

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For the better part of ten years, starting in 2004, I was the only paraglider in Honduras. I came from a community of pilots in western Canada, so in the beginning I felt both excitement and a lot of...

UP Summit XC4: first test flight

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What a ship this Summit XC4! During all the flight I had a feeling of total performance, glide, speed and stability. The turn is immediate, with a short, direct handling with very sporty touch. It is very clear that...

Ozone launches the Zeno, high EN-D paraglider

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Halfway between a Mantra M6 and an Enzo 2, the Zeno is a totally new design with a profile inherited from the research program of the Enzo 3, with only 2 risers, aspect ratio of 6.9 and 78 cells....

Photo album: U-Turn Passenger 2

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We did some test flights with the U-turn Passenger 2 paraglider, a very sporty and efficient tandem wing of the famed manufacturer specialised in acro and freestyle. After a thorough inspection on the ground, we took to the skies...

Horacio Llorens joins thousands of starlings in flight!

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A dream come true for the 5-times acro world champion and adventurer, who travelled to Denmark to fly in the Black Sun – a natural event that happens every autumn when more than 1 million starlings migrate south for...

Flying a 193km FAI Triangle in the Alps

The Mistral winds had just passed and it was looking to be a very good day to fly. On Thursday night I had planned a trip to Chamonix to fly over the weekend around the highest mountains of Europe....

Theo de Blic wins Acro Game as world’s best freestyler of Acro paragliding

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Very enthusiastic with the outcome, participants and organizers of the second edition of the Acro Game, held in Organya (Catalonia, Spain) on July 28th and 29th 2017, do not hesitate to call it ‘the’ reference event of the free-style...

Video: Inspired – feed your passion for flying

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Six lives and multiple ways of understanding life and paragliding. Acro, XC, speed flying, freestyle, tandem flights, paramotor or flight bivy; no matter what your flying way is, we are pretty sure that this movie will give you a blast,...

Seven turnpoints and 1,138km for the hardest X-Alps ever!

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Racing a straight-line distance of 1,138km from Salzburg to Monaco, 32 world class athletes from 21 countries will hike and fly via 7 turnpoints in 7 different countries - including Austria, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, France and for the first...

Video: PWC Pico Do Gaviao, a Brazilian affair!

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A World of Colour is a display of an amazing selection of the stars and starlets of paragliding while they battle for a place on the podium of the highest-level paragliding competition series, the Paragliding World Cup (PWC). The...

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