Gavin McClurg broke the US paragliding foot launch record on 15 July 2013, flying 383km from Sun Valley, Idaho on his Niviuk Peak 3.
Author: winguu
New US record on the Peak 3
New US record on the Peak 3
Source: Niviuk
Horacio Llorens take the lead in the world cup ranking meanwhile France monopolize the top10
The first world cup’s stop of the year, AcroMax, just ended last sunday after a super nice week in Udine, Italy.
In solo Horacio take the lead after an impressive competition meanwhile the French team put 5 pilot in the top7. Marvin Ogger manage to put himself between for a nice 4th place after big fights. The level was high and this was a good start for an incredible season ! Read the full report below.
Source: Just Acro
Ozone Pilots Win At XC-Amazonia, Brazil
Our friend, Daniel Caram, reports in from Brazil:
X-Alps Update: Top 5 Pilots All Flying Ozone LM5
UPDATE:July 17 10:15 CET
The first 5 pilots into goal at Monaco were all flying Ozone LM5s. A huge congratulations to Clement Latour, Antoine Girard, Jon Chambers, and Peter Gebhard, who followed Chrigel into goal! We hope that they are all enjoying cold drinks and a view of the Mediterranean
We will be watching our teammate, Martin Muller, today with the hopes that he can pull off a nice flight to the coast. Track them here.
Cheers from all the Team!
Source: Ozone Paragliders
Russian Mega-Tow: 3110m (10,200ft)
Expert XC Pilot and veteran instructor, Andrey Alepov, writes to us about a mega-tow his school performed in Russia recently. Andrey reports:
“We have set a new record to bring a pilot to 3110m, towing. We have found a long field about 5 km. We put together many cables and came to the result of 5 km of cable. We used the tandem Magnum for a single pilot to compensate the possible load to the wing. The wind was 2 – 4 ms that day. The time of towing was 40min. The whole time of flight till the landing was 1
Source: Ozone Paragliders
Nick and Dario Win Italian Acro Championship
Ozone Shark Nose Technology, Patent Info
Chrigel Wins X-Alps For 3rd Time, in Record Time
Chrigel Maurer has just completed a legendary performance at the 2013 X-Alps race, finishing in a record 7 days, which is all the more impressive considering that the 2013 course was the longest ever set. Chrigel’s lead grew steadily each day until he was almost 300km ahead of his nearest competitor by the end of the race. His recorded flight line and the resulting tracklog provide an impressive lesson on Alpine flying, with daring crossings through technical terrain and certainly near the maximum possible XC flights for each segment on that day. We are very happy to have been able
Source: Ozone Paragliders
Red Bull X-Alps 2013: Chrigel Maurer wins in record time
Chrigel Maurer won the Red Bull X-Alps 2013 in record time on Sunday 14 July when he reached the final turnpoint above Monaco only seven days after leaving Salzburg.