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After 10 years and 2 cancelled attempts to organize the 2nd Acro World Championships, this year it seems like nothing can stand in the way for the most prestigious competition to happen again! This time in France, Annecy!
The registration is now open and the National Aero Clubs need to delegate the best of each country to participate!
Source:: Just Acro
After 10 years and 2 cancelled attempts to organize the 2nd Acro World Championships, this year it seems like nothing can stand in the way for the most prestigious competition to happen again! This time in France, Annecy!
The registration is now open and the National Aero Clubs need to delegate the best of each country to participate!
Source:: Just Acro
“This is officially the gnarliest thermal I’ve been in…” Will Gadd and Gavin McClurg ride the wild air of the Rockies on a 700km vol-biv. The full-length 52-minute film is online here. …read more
You gotta watch this! Brett Hazlett outdoes himself at the Paragliding World Cup in Castelo, Brazil. April 2016. …read more
Section 7, the rules that govern hang gliding and paragliding competition, has been revised and updated. It has been published on the CIVL website and will be current from 1 May 2016. CIVL say it has taken two years to revise. Notorious for its complexity the rules in Section 7 are there to help organisers […] …read more
The FAI have released their annual report for 2015. It features news and statistics on competitions and records on all the FAI airsports, including paramotoring, paragliding and hang gliding. Available to download as a pdf or to view online as a flipbook from the FAI site. …read more
The Busa Flying Team at Riva del Garda in Italy are running a local (lake Garda area) XContest competition, with great prizes including Woody Valley’s new competition X-Rated 7 harness. Any qualified pilot can take part, on any certified wing (EN A to CCC); they simply need to record their flight (which has to fulfil the […] …read more
Ozone’s LiteSpeed is a versatile lightweight miniwing, bridging the gap between lightweight paragliders and speedriding wings. You’ll find it in the speedriding section of Ozone’s website, though they summarise it as a miniwing for use in a wide range of conditions, from hike-and-fly to soaring. It is intended for intermediate pilots upwards, its speed and dynamicism increasing with wing […] …read more
Two Niviuk teams in the third edition of the X-Pyr …read more
Source:: Niviuk
Carl Wallbank flew his hang glider 275km to a declared goal on the south coast of England on 23 April 2016 – a UK goal flight record. The flight, from Llangollen in North Wales to Weymouth, took him 6 hours 12 minutes, and meant negotiating the UK’s notoriously complicated airspace. Carl holds the UK open distance record too, with […] …read more
