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Chrigel Maurer, Benoit Outters and Maxime Pinot were joint winners of the Red Bull X-Alps 2019 Prologue race, each winning an extra night pass
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Porcher Sport is to unveil a new, extra-light paragliding fabric at the Red Bull X-Alps this weekend – weighing just 21 grams per square metre
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After opening the season with an impressive 162 km declared goal flight, our friends, Wayne Seely and Graham Steel, scored another epic day.
Wayne reports:
“We had another great weekend In the Cotswolds. Light wind and a good cloud base prediction saw us towing from the Cotswolds, an early start at 11am for myself and Graham Steel ( both flying our trusty Zenos) we started with a 1000m base heading to tp1 that quickly went to blue conditions for 40km but as we approached tp2 we were connected with clouds which gave amazing 5ms climbs to 2000m giving us an easy run back to goal, 105k declared FAI Triangle in just under 5 hrs. Not epic by alpine standards but a good day for the UK”
For Wayne and Graham’s flight, click here
Congrats and Cheers from all the Ozone Team.
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Earlier this year, French American pilot Jean Francois Chabaud flew 6000 miles paramotor tour across America! This is by far the longest distance ever attempted and achieved by paramotor!
He was flying Ozone Roadster 3 in size 22m and supported by ground crew along the route.
Jean reports:
“Total forty days of flying: San Diego, California to Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida then Mexico.
Distance flown: 6,150 miles and only driving 60 miles in US and 200 miles in Mexico.
Launched and landing at the same spot 98% of the time.
My The longest flying day was 8.5 h! The biggest and fastest distance was over 1,000 miles distance flown in just four days!
This epic adventure had its highs and lows, literally… from sea level to 9,600 ft
(2926 m)!
My top speed was approximately 81.4 mph (131 kmh) above Mobile, Alabama.
I had about 40 deflations, including six major deflations but the great Ozone Roadster 3 saved my life many times as it’s such a good and safe xc wing.
This Roadster 3 wing is brilliant, fun to fly!”
If you want to meet Jean and chat about his epic adventure, he will be attending …read more
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Just days before the Red Bull X-Alps prologue in Wagrain, Chrigel said he’s still got what it takes to be the best
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The 2019 edition of Bornes to Fly, the three-day Annecy-based hike-and-fly competition, was won by Damien Lacaze in just one day!
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Mac Para’s new high-performance EN-B paraglider the Eden 7 is out, and they say it’s a “significant change” from its predecessor.
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We are very proud of a polish national team pilot Bartosz Nowicki, who won V Open Polish Slalom Championships 2019 last weekend in Jutrosin flying with Ozone Freeride 15.
The event was the biggest international slalom competition this year with 42 best pilots from 11 countries: Poland, Italy, Germany, Netherland, Finland, Spain, France, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Belgium, Greece. Despite of windy weather and tragic accident (not flying), during 5 days pilots flew 11 tasks.
Big Congratulations to Bartek. We are very impressed by Bartek’s victory and feel honored to support him in this competition. Bartek is one of the top 5 World slalom pilots, finished 4th during last year World Slalom Championships in Egypt.
Cheers from all Ozone Team.
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Concerning all Oxygen 2 and Oxygen 2+ harnesses.
It has been reported that during a static deployment there were difficulties removing the handle from the Velcro attachment, making it impossible to deploy the reserve successfully.
If you own an Oxigen 2 / Oxigen 2+ please read this safety notice.
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Koessen Super Paragliding Testival 2019 saw some great flying, with hundreds of pilots grabbing the chance to fly and try different wings
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