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The Flying Muppets with Wolfgang from Hohe Wand Austria visited us again for their New Year paragliding trip in January 2014.

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Source: Paragliding Hellas

The Stubai Cup takes place this weekend, 7-9 March in the Austrian Tyrol. This three-day event is the first chance European manufacturers have to showcase new designs and products for the upcoming summer season. Some 20 manufacturers will be there, offering pilots who attend the chance to test fly new gliders and gear. The event […] …read more

Source: Cross Country – International Free Flying Magazine

The lightweight Mantra 5 cleaned up at the Red Bull X-Alps. But is it any use to us mere mortals? Hugh Miller finds out in Cross Country 151… Pick up an LM5 in one hand and an Enzo or Icepeak 6 in the other, and the difference is staggering. At 3.35kg, this is a […] …read more

Source: Cross Country – International Free Flying Magazine

The Eden 5 is the latest EN B paraglider from MacPara. Is it all good in the garden, or is there a serpent in the undergrowth? Marcus King reviews it in issue 151 of Cross Country and found out. He had a tasty start… Unusually, my first experience with this wing was on an […] …read more

Source: Cross Country – International Free Flying Magazine

The race director of the Red Bull X-Alps, Christoph Weber, has launched a new online contest dedicated to hike-and-fly. The site, www.hikeandfly-xc.com, is aimed at pilots who want to record their hike-and-fly adventures and compare them with others. Christoph said: “The idea is to score hiking and flying in the same way as other […] …read more

Source: Cross Country – International Free Flying Magazine

Follow Rob Whittall and Bob Drury as they traverse western Nepal by paraglider. A classic, defining paragliding film from 1999, recently uploaded to Vimeo. • Got news? Send it to us at news@xcmag.com Buy and sell gear on Skyads.aero Home …read more

Source: Cross Country – International Free Flying Magazine

A trio of pilots have embarked on a 20 day vol-biv flight across Nepal. Mitch Riley, Brian Thibeault, and Premek Hulek hopped a 30 hour bus ride from Pokhara to Patan in the far west of the country earlier this week, and will spend the next three weeks flying with the prevailing winds eastwards […] …read more

Source: Cross Country – International Free Flying Magazine

Australian Champions for three years in a row …read more

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