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While the PWC crew was gearing up in Brazil, Wayne Seeley & friends were chasing the first XC window of the year in the UK.

Wayne reports:

“The UK season finally kicked off. On March 24th, the forecast was good with a 1500m base predicted and a nice NW wind . A few of us launched our Zenos from Selsley common in the Cotswolds, Tom Cole and Ollie Clothier both made 100+km flights and me and Graham Steel made our declared goal of 155km finally landing at 162k after 5 hrs. A great start to the year!!!”

For Wayne’s flight click here

Congrats guys for such a good start. Cheers from all the Ozone Team.

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The 2019 X-Alps equipment setup weighs in at under 5.5kg for wing, XC harness, and reserve. The Zeolite itself is just 2.85 kg. It is designed for use in the X-Alps race environment, which means small and unimproved launches, technical top-landings, small & restricted LZs, and strong alpine conditions.

From the R&D Team: “Forget everything you think you know about the compromises in 2-Line paraglider designs. The Zeolite is easy to launch, easy to land in small/restricted LZs, and has the most comfortable B-handle control we have experienced. This is a new breed of 2-Line design.”

We’ll post more info on this exciting new gear in the coming weeks, and we wish all of the athletes in this year’s race the best of luck.

Thanks to Manuel Nuebel for the review.

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1,200 km by Paraglider: Ozone Team pilot, Benjamin Jordan pushes his mind and body to the absolute limit during the most daring series of Rocky Mountain flights in history.

For more on this incredible adventure visit: www.theendlesschain.com

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Dream the Dream You Want to Live!! Enjoy the latest production of our friends from Aviator PPG!

There is not age for dreaming. There is not age for flying. See you out there

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The 10th Paragliding World Cup Super Final will take place in Baixo Guandu, Brazil from the 19th to the 30th of March 2019.

Baixo Guandu is a favourite destination for the Paragliding World Cup, with its stunning black granite dome mountains and testing tasks in the land of record-breaking skies.

This will be the World Cup’s fourth visit to Baixo Guandu (previous comps were in 2013, 2015, 2018). The World Cup has also been to nearby Castelo four times which has very similar topography (2006, 2008, 2012 and 2016). Proof, if it were needed, that the state of Espírito Santo, in south-eastern Brazil, with its Jurassic Park landscape, monster bamboo and pilot high grass, is a Paragliding mecca. It also means that there are a lot of pilots in this 10th celebratory Super Final who are very experienced in flying these unusual monolithic black blocks.

On the World Cup website PWCA.org, you can now see preview pilot profiles of the high flyers from 2018, who will be taking part in the Super Final.

The pilot quality in this Super Final is going to be amazing. 6 out of the 8 previous overall Super Final winners will be taking part.
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The 2019 X-Alps equipment setup weighs in at under 5.5kg for wing, XC harness, and reserve. The Zeolite itself is just 2.85 kg. It is designed for use in the X-Alps race environment, which means small and unimproved launches, technical top-landings, small & restricted LZs, and strong alpine conditions.

From the R&D Team: “Forget everything you think you know about the compromises in 2-Line paraglider designs. The Zeolite is easy to launch, easy to land in small/restricted LZs, and has the most comfortable B-handle control we have experienced. This is a new breed of 2-Line design.”

We’ll post more info on this exciting new gear in the coming weeks, and we wish all of the athletes in this year’s race the best of luck.

Thanks to Manuel Nuebel for the review.

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The Apco Hybrid is a unique paraglider – with a double-surface section at the front and a single-surface section at the rear

The post Apco Hybrid (EN B) Review appeared first on Cross Country Magazine – In the Core since 1988.

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Dudek have updated the Funky and Jazz cross-country harnesses. They are open designs, designed to be flown with stirrups

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The Apollo 2 is Sky’s new high-performance, high-B cross-country wing. They say it offers “sporty spirit and comfortable, safe flying”

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The Gingo Airlite 4 from Gin is a lightweight harness with an airbag, for beginners and leisure pilots

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Source:: Cross Country – International Free Flying Magazine