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Felix Rodriguez is apparently in form, and giving the young Fran Reina a serious challenge at the Spanish Nationals / Open at Piedrahita. Felix finished first overall, 99 points ahead of Fran Reina, who joined him on the podium in second. This is Felix’s 4th major title in the past few weeks! Felix reports that the Enzo2 and Exoceat are a winning combination
Cheers from all the Team, and congrats again to Felix and Fran!
Full results here.
Source: Ozone Paragliders
Ozone’s Managing Director, Mike Cavanagh, got away from his desk to break a UK record with the first ever 100km declared FAI Triangle. This sets a new British record for the biggest declared triangle and also biggest triangle. Mike began the flight with several friends, and he says that they had some epic flying in the Cairngorms of Scotland. During the entire flight they did not cross a road, so the walk-outs would have been equally epic for the UK. Unfortunately it all “went a bit pants” in the last 6km and Mike …read more
Source: Ozone Paragliders
Richard Sheppard reports from France on the final results from the Annecy Mondial 2014 The final results are in for the Annecy Mondial Delta 2014, the multiclass Hang Gliding World Championships. After the competition’s tragic turn of events with the death of Japanese class 5 pilot, Mazakazu Kobayashi, the atmosphere at the competition was subdued. […] …read more
AcroAria, the legendary acro world cup hosted by the scenic Italian town Omegna is back after several years break! Among many shooting stars this also inspired Raúl Rodriguez to return for a spin over Lago di Orta! 1-1 run is fully completed so far and only a few pilots pilots are missing for a completed second solo run as the weather wasn’t favorable. The remaining pilots are going to fly tomorrow early and the second synchro run is expected to launch around midday.
Check out the current results here.
Source: Just Acro
The 29th of June 2014 could be the biggest day in the history of Turkish XC Flying. Muharrem Kilic reports:
We launched with a group of friends in Kahramanmaras, a relatively new area, to explore its record breaking potential. The weather forecast was “bombastic” for the day with 4000+ m cloudbase and high wind at altitude. All pilots took off together at around 11 o’clock and attempted to break the Turkish XC distance record of 258,9 km held by three Enzo pilots. After more than 7 hours flying, sometimes with over 100+ km ground speeds, 9 of the …read more
Source: Ozone Paragliders
The Multiclass Hang-Gliding World Championships in Annecy, France ended in tragedy yesterday when a pilot flying an Atos VR died during a task. Japanese pilot Mazakazu Koayashi, 44, was reported to be flying close to a cliff face in smooth conditions when the accident happened. Organisers announced the death on the official website saying that […] …read more
Emi Igawa won the PWC Portugal …read more
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The Ozone R&D Team are currently in Texas, flying a little cross country with some friends. After a few days of wind, a bit of rain, an intro to paraglider winch-towing, and a bit of Western culture, the team are now in the air! Check out their live tracking at this link, to follow their progress from today and previous days.
We’d like to send out a huge thanks to Nick Greece who has made all of this possible, and to Chris Galli and Bill Belcourt for additional guiding and support. The R&D Team were only able to get …read more
Source: Ozone Paragliders
The most recent PWCA event at Serra da Estrela has come to a close, with 21 out of the top 25 pilots all flying Ozone, and the top 5 spots all Ozone. Felix Rodriguez took first overall in this second consecutive PWCA overall win (he also won the most recent PWCA event at Couer de Savoie, France) and was joined on the podium by Julien Wirtz and Pepe Malecki.
Yvonne Dathe, of Germany, took 3rd place in the women’s division flying her Mantra M6.
Open results can be seen here.
Congrats Felix, and thanks to all of the Ozone pilots for …read more
Source: Ozone Paragliders
Thomas Punty and Nelson de Freyman have just completed a rather amazing vol-biv adventure along the length of the Rockies from deep in Canada all the way to the Mexico border. Over 4 months the duo traveled only by foot, skis, and paraglider (Alpina2). We would like to wish them both a hearty congratulations for one of the longest (the longest?) and most rugged vol-biv journeys in the history of the sport.
Thomas and Nelson report:
