UK-based hang gliding company, Avian, is up for sale. Steve Elkins, Avian MD and designer, started the company over 25 years ago. He says: We are looking for a potential buyer with engineering know-how and a maybe a desire to do something totally different from their current job. Being able to design, test and fly your own […] …read more
Category: para news
Niviuk unveil lightweight Ikuma P
Niviuk have released a lightweight version of the high-end EN B Ikuma, for “back-country adventures off the beaten track”. It’s available in four sizes, for all-up weights from 55-115kg, and weighs around 1.4kg less than the standard Ikuma, with wing weights from 3.3kg to 3.9kg. The wing is made from 27g Porcher Skytex with Dyneema risers. […] …read more
Ozone Fazer 3 speed wing
Ozone say the latest Fazer 3 speed wing has an expanded flight range, “unmatched” precision, and can be foot or ski launched. Ozone say they have retained the same easy launch characteristics and great flare, and redesigned the trimmers, adding a new ‘steep flight’ mode that makes it faster and less efficient but more stable, for hugging snowy slopes. […] …read more
The 2nd FAI World Championships is on!
After two cancelled attempts to hold another Worlds after 2006 in Villeneuve, France now succeeded to make it happen in Annecy!
After 1 synchro and 2 solo runs The SAT Brothers and Francois Ragolski took the lead!
Find detailed results here.
Find the event page on Facebook with regular updates here.
Source:: Just Acro
Video: Just Acro Boogie 2016
Here’s the official video of the first Just Acro Boogie, an acro festival hosted by Pál Takáts and Xandi Meschuh at the new Flieger-Base in Gerlitzen, Austria in July. The event, which was organised to celebrate ten years of Just Acro, was, “A friendly and fun event with happy faces and over a 1000 acro runs flown”, according […] …read more
Sonchaux Acro Show – Horacio tops the battles!
Another successful edition of the renowned Sonchaux Acro Show! Countless spectacles and shows colored up the skies of Villeneuve 4 days and nights! We can’t wait to see the event video of this year!
Results of the prestigous ‘Battle’ comp format:
1st: Horacio Llorens
2nd: Ondrej Prochazka
3rd: place: Rafael Goberna
As usual the event also hosted the Swiss Championships too!
Solo results:
1st: David Geiser
2nd: Jérémy Péclard
3rd: Lionel Hercod
Synchro results:
Source:: Just Acro
Théo de Blic wins Acro Game in Orgañyá!
Théo de Blic won the first Acro Game, an exciting high-level & new-school competition!
More info and report about this format coming soon!
Source:: Just Acro
Annecy restricted zone: 26 Aug to 4 September 2016
There’s an acro competition on in Anncey, France, and if you’re not involved as a pilot, you need to stay out of this box! Make sure ‘that’ pilot isn’t you! …read more
World PG Acro Championships 2016: 26 Aug-4 Sep
The World Paragliding Acro Championships has started in Annecy, France, and is set to last all week, 26 August to 4 September 2016. This is only the second FAI World Paragliding Aerobatics Championships in history, and comes a decade after the first one. Pilots from 16 nations are competing, including some of the biggest names […] …read more
Alex Mateos: World Paramotor Champion, 2016
Team France are celebrating a successful week at the FAI World Paramotor and Microlight Championships, with Alex Mateos crowned footlaunch champion, and France top nation. The footlaunch podium was an all-French affair, with Boris Tysebaert and Julien Barbier flanking Alex, and his wife Marie was the highest-scored woman. The Czech Republic and Poland were second and third-placed nations in the […] …read more