“We wanted to make it ridiculously easy to launch”, say BGD of their EN-B Dual 2 tandem. “Two steps and away!”
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Vittorazi Moster 185 MY’19
The Moster 185 MY’19 from Vittorazi is a powerful 185cc two-stroke engine with design features that make it resilient in tough environments
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Advance Epsilon 9 – with feel-good factor
Advance say the EN-B Epsilon 9 is a wing with feel-good factor that will keep pilots loving the sport, long after their training days
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Mike Küng at Olympus!
Olympic Wings offers a Groundhandling & Glider Control seminar with Mike Küng from 13.04. to 20.04.2019 This Groundhandling & Glider Control seminar aims to pilots who wish to reconnect with their gliders and lock a solid ‘piloting skills’ base by training correctly and gaining a clear understanding of the complete potential of their flying gear. Groundhandling […]
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Win a paraglider in the Cross Country Prize Draw 2019
Win a brand new paraglider or paramotor win in the Cross Country Magazine Subscribers’ Prize Draw 2019!
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Buzz Z6 Now Available
The new Z6 contains performance breakthroughs in the intermediate category, while taking passive safety to the highest level yet in the Buzz series. With a refined SharkNose leading edge, optimised line plan for 20% drag reduction, and a new blend of materials to improve durability and reduce weight, the Z6 is the most advanced Buzz to date.
More info on the BuzzZ6 product page
The BuzzZ6 is ready to order from your local OZONE distributor
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Nervures Swoop XP mountain wing
The Swoop XP is the new mountain wing from Nervures, who say it’s “ultra light, ultra strong and ultra efficient.”
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Next level adventure: 1600 km XC in Brazil
Earlier this year, two pilots Kester Haynes (OZONE Freeride) and Daniel Rodrigues (OZONE Roadster 3 26) planned 10 days cross country flight, with a goal to design a route for the 2019 Icarus Trophy Race. They flew total distance of 1600 km having a ground crew support of three 4×4 cars. Kester describes it shortly as “next level adventure”
Kester reports:
“Daniel and I set off on our mission with all the kit we would expect an Icarus Trophy pilot to carry, its heavy! Although we would be carrying everything as if unsupported – Race Class style – we had made pre arranged meeting points with our ground crew, more like Adventure Class.
The landscape, terrain and fuel availability for the first couple of days, was a gentle warm up. Then leaving the hills behind, comes the Pantanal – the World largest tropical wetland area. This is where you feel like you’re entering another world. I never could have imagined what it felt like to fly over this wild and difficult place! To try to put the remoteness of the landscape into perspective, we often flew for a couple of hours and then the support cars had to take a 14 hours route! …read more
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UP Guru competition wing in production
UP have announced that their all-out competition paraglider, the Guru, is CCC certified and in production
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Pierre Carter and Nico Hickley fly Carstensz Pyramid
Pierre Carter and Nico Hickley flew from Carstensz Pyramid on 11 December 2018, and are thought to be the first paraglider pilots to have done so
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