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The first event of the 2017 World Cup took place in Coeur de Savoie, France. It came to a close on Saturday after six days of intense flying around the beautiful Savoie. It was a week with many kilometers flown – more than 600 in total!

OZONE’s own designer and team pilot, Luc Armant, led the competition from task one until the prize ceremony, taking first place overall. Congrats, Luc!

In Luc’s words:

“We’ve been very lucky with the weather, I have never seen 6 tasks in a row anywhere in Europe before. After eventually winning the first task by flying aggressively in front with out other strategy than following my instinct, then I focused on winning the competition and changed my strategy toward trying to keep the lead with out risking too much. I was helped by Russ and Hono’s advices and encouragements. In fact, I think I was also helped by everyone’s support after the first task.

After months of hard work on the Enzo 3, It was a big relief for our R&D team to see our pilots happy and performing well. Many of them had just received their wing one day before the …read more

Source:: Ozone Paragliders

Alex Raymont set a new Canadian open distance paragliding record on 20 May 2017 when he flew 334.5km over eight hours on his new Gin Explorer (EN B). Canada’s Stewart Midwinter reports: A group of paraglider and hang glider pilots are all gathered together in Alberta this week for the “Miles in May” record encampment, […] …read more

Source:: Cross Country – International Free Flying Magazine

Katalin Juhasz has just set a new female open distance record in her homeland, Hungary, with an amazing 215 km flight.

In her own words:”This season started slowly in Hungary, except for a few days, there were no great opportunities. The weather forecast was good for this day, so we traveled from Budapest to the 400m “high” Szársomlyó, which we call “mountain”. 300km by car, 1h walk to the mountain where 40 pilots were preparing to fly feverishly. In 2014 I set up a 122km Hungarian female record at a declared goal that I’d try again this day. I carefully wrote up: 130 kilometers . We were watching the air and at noon it seemed worth starting.

The first 70km flight was simple, with some members of the Hungarian national team, we managed to work together efficiently and quickly. The clouds were working as the textbook. Suddenly the clouds began to fall apart, so I got lower while the others kept their height. I had to decide and pulled away from my teammates alone in the direction of my goal. At this point a big cirrus took over shadowing the ground, I kept gliding forward until BOOM found my rescue …read more

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Triple Seven have announced that their EN-B Knight is now available, and that it’s, “the nicest wing in the category we have ever flown”. It’s aimed at “typical EN-B” pilots, and it’s, A classic Triple Seven paraglider, with much more performance than you would expect in its class, with very direct, responsive handling, and buckets of passive […] …read more

Source:: Cross Country – International Free Flying Magazine

Gavin McClurg faces the North of Known. …read more

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The Super Paragliding Testival Koessen is back again, and will take place May 25-28 in Tirol, Austria. If you have been looking to try one of our new wings for the season this 4 day event gives you the opportunity to demo almost the entire OZONE range.

For more info, you can visit: www.fly-koessen.at

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In 2015, Nikolay Stoyanov had the idea of crossing Bulgaria flying from the most easterly point of Stara Planina to finish at Kom Peak in the western Balkan Mountains. During his journey he was able to fly every single day, starting with an amazing 115km flight. After landing, he’d continue walking around 6 to 7 hours a day to complete the route in a total of 5 days. He was the first pilot to hike and fly this specific route in Bulgaria.

This year Nikolai decided on a repeat, but this time in the opposite direction, flying east from Kom Peak and finishing on the coast of The Black Sea, in Burgas. This time the weather was less cooperative, but he still managed to conclude the route after flying 168km and hiking 303km in a total of 7 days. Nikolai finished his 2017 challenge on the same glider he flew in 2015, his trusty LM5.

Congrats Nikolai for crossing your country (again)!
Cheers from all the team at OZONE.

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“Arms folded, a bit (or more) of bar on, no contact with the glider. It looks a little scary, but at any high-level competition you’ll see pilots flying their CCC wing in exactly this way.” We get to grips with the ‘coffin position’ and ask PWC pilot Michael Sigel what it’s all about. Find out […] …read more

Source:: Cross Country – International Free Flying Magazine