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Our friends Hugh Miller, Luke Nicol, Guy Anderson (Enzo 3s) and Graham Steel (Zeno) have set a new declared goal record in the UK with an amazing 246 km flight. They launched from Sharpenhoe (65 metres high!) on June 28 and flew past Oxford, Glastonbury and into Devon.

Hugh reports:

“It was an epic flight. Base was at 2000 ft for the first two hours then slowly rose till we were surfing convergence lines at 5,500 ft that looked like they stretched almost to Cornwall if we could have got going earlier”

A few days prior to this flight, on June 22nd, Mark Watts and Hugh Miller started the British summer with a 120 km out and return flight, also a new UK record, from Devils Dyke to beyond Buster and back. Mark and Hugh flew Enzo 3s.

For the new UK declared goal record’s track click HERE
For the new UK out of return record’s track click HERE

Congrats and cheers from all the OZONE Team.

Photos Courtesy of Hugh Miller

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The third stop of the 2018 PWC in Gemona, Italy, came to an end on Saturday.

After four valid tasks, the overall win went to Jurij Vidic and in the women’s category, OZONE team pilot, Seiko Fukuoka took the win. Both flew Enzo 3s.
The team winner was The OZONE Team.

OZONE R&D team pilot , Honorin Hamard won two out of four tasks following his own lines and leading the pack during the last two tasks. Our own Russ Ogden, Charles Cazaux and Luc Armant finished 4th, 6th and 10th respectively.

For full results click HERE

Congrats and Cheers from all the OZONE TEAM.

Next Stop: Sopot, Bulgaria. Stay tuned for more.

Photos courtesy of PWCA.org

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Mark Langenfeld from Wisconsin, USA, is the lucky winner of the wing in the Cross Country Subscribers’ Summer Prize Draw 2018

The post Prize draw summer 2018: Who won the wing? appeared first on Cross Country Magazine – In the Core since 1988.

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Here are the impressions from our XC Seminar this June with our guest paragliding professionals Michael Nesler & Gudrun Oechsl. A great occasion to happily greet and warmly welcome like always many paragliding pilots that joined our seminar, to push their boundaries and earn healthy experience in XC flying with our […] …read more

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Woody Valley GTO Light review: From a first two hour’s XC flying, it’s clear that Woody Valley have made a very, very impressive harness here.

The post Woody Valley GTO Light Review appeared first on Cross Country Magazine – In the Core since 1988.

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The Rush 5 is our latest Sport-Performance-Intermediate wing. Developed with the same technology used in our performance series, including the Enzo 3 and Zeno, it delivers top of class performance. Innovative new features incorporated during an extensive period of comparative testing have led to significant gains, especially in accelerated glide performance. Check out this video for more info from our R&D team, and visit the product page for full details.

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Spring keeps delivering, this time in Turkey. Cansu Atabey just broke the Turkish women’s open distance record on her new Delta 3. She flew 146.9 kms in 4:07 hrs with a max altitude of 3,432 m.

Cansu followed the classic XC route which crosses the Euphrates River near Ataturk Dam Lake and landed on Şanlıurfa, an ancient Anatolian city. For flight track, click here

Congrats and cheers from all the OZONE Team.

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Tanguy Renaud-Goud won the 2018 edition of the St Hil’Airtour hike-and-fly race, completing the 376km course in seven days

The post Tanguy Renaud-Goud wins “very tough” 2018 Airtour appeared first on Cross Country Magazine – In the Core since 1988.

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The next Paragliding World Cup will take place in Gemona, Italy from the 24th -30th of June.

Gemona, in the north east corner of Italy, is widely recognised as a world class paragliding competition venue, having hosted numerous international events. Situated were the Julian Alps hit the plains, it offers both mountainous alpine flying and flatland racing,

This World Cup is going to be a real battle between the giants of the XC world and the stars of the paragliding racing circuit.

The big distance record holders are used to flying very fast to cover the incredible distances required to claim World records these days.

The competitions across Europe this spring have provided some great race training. Virtually all the podium winners from the European competitions so far this year will be competing in Gemona!
The pilot quality in this competition is going to be one of the highest we have ever seen with 19 pilots ranked AA. It promises to be an amazing event with 3 Super Final winners taking part, 16 World Cup winners racing across the skies together!

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Advance have inserted a whole new model into their paraglider range: the Xi is a lightweight high-B, made for cross-country, thermalling and hike-and-fly

The post Advance Xi: lightweight high-B paraglider appeared first on Cross Country Magazine – In the Core since 1988.

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