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Wow! That was fast. Congratulations to Ozone R&D team member Honorin Hamard and Karine Gras who have just landed after a 407km tandem flight, breaking the world tandem record by a good margin after 11 hours in the air in Brazil. This was their third attempt at beating the previous 363km unratified record. You can see the entire flight on Honorin’s page on Airtribune.
Great work and cheers from all the team at Ozone!
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Australian Dave Wainwright won the first ever Icarus Trophy – a 1,300km paramotor race dreamt up by Adventure specialists the Adventurists, which took place in October 2016 in the USA. The 1,300 kilometres from Seattle to Valley Springs, California were covered by Dave and fellow Australian Kristan Fischer in a staggeringly fast three days. Kristan actually landed four minutes […] …read more
Michael Küffer (CH, GIN) and Yuki Sato (JP, Niviuk) have won the PWC that finished in Bir-Billing, India on 31 October 2015. The comp was a brilliant success, with five tasks flown and a lot of mainstream media interest in India. France topped the coutries rankings, ahead of the UK and Slovenia, and the first team were team […] …read more
Honorin Hamard and passenger Karine Gras are celebrating a successful 335.4km flight from Quixadá to a declared goal on 1 November 2015. If ratified, it takes the World ‘distance to a declared goal’ tandem paragliding record, beating André Fleury’s 308.3km record that was set in Brazil in 2006, by 27km. This is the second tandem paragliding world record […] …read more
Ozone R&D team member Honorin Hamard is attempting to best the world record tandem flight with his girlfriend Karine Gras in Quixada, Brazil. The attempts will be made now until November 14th, 2015. The couple is trying to beat at least one of the current world record tandem flights:
Tandem straight distance: 356.2km (363km attempt pending ratification).
Tandem via 1 turnpoint: 308.3km
Tandem with 3 turnpoints: 258.43km
With one 353km flight already complete, you can follow their attempts live via Airtribune live satellite based tracking and all current news will be published on Hono’s Facebook page.
Good luck to the adventurous couple from all the Ozone team!
Source:: Ozone Paragliders
After 5 tasks the PWC in Bir/Billing, India, has come to a close with 7 of the top 10 pilots flying Enzo 2s. The comp was a great success with good conditions and excellent flying in one of the most beautiful and challenging flying spots in the world. The top 3 spots were separated by only 12 points making the contest extremely close. Congratulations to Xevi Bonet and Julien Wirtz for their podium finishes!
Here are the full results from the comp.
Cheers from all the team!
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On 26 October 2015, Frenchman Julien Irilli and his sister Emilie flew a Niviuk Bi Peak 3 tandem for 363km in Brazil. It’s a pending World record for ‘free distance using up to three turnpoints’, and is with the FAI for ratification. It was the pair’s first flight of their trip to Quixadá, and was ten hours in […] …read more
Thuraya’s SatSleeve transforms your smartphone into a satellite phone, offering internet access from anywhere in the world. There are two ways of doing this: SatSleeve+ clips on to a phone like a cover, turning your own phone into a satellite phone. SatSleeve Hotspot creates a WiFi hotspot which allows a group of people to connect to […] …read more
The FAI have listings on their website of all the safety notices that have been issued for hang gliding and paragliding equipment. The lists are in reverse-chronological order, and can be found here: paragliding equipment safety notices, and hang gliding equipment safety notices. Fai.org • Got news? Send it to us at news@xcmag.com. Subscribe to the world’s favourite […] …read more
We love competitions that focus on fun and mentoring, so we were happy to hear about the upcoming Monarca Open‘s new format. With a new aim to mentor sport pilots into XC and competition with daily briefings and debriefings, the mission of the Monarca Open is to help you to improve your level of flying. So, if you are looking for a warm place to fly with consistent conditions and a very well organized competition that will increase your skill level, then the Monarca Open is the place to be this coming January. The competition runs from the 4th-9th of January 2016 and is followed by the Paragliding World Cup Super Final from the 12th-23rd, making it a prime time to be around some of the best pilots in the world. More competition information can be found on their website.
Cheers and we look forward to hearing about your flights!
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