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Its all over for the Red Bull X-Alps 2019 – the clock stopped at midday on Thursday 27 June, with ten pilots having made it to Peille
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UK pilot Alex Huxham won Icarus X Trophy flying his new Roadster 3 24. He has been flying only over 10 months being trained by SkySchool UK. “I have managed to clock well over 130 flights in that time” – he says. The race took place from 21st to 22nd June. The route was 240 miles (386 km) long, it was a triangle starting and finishing in Somerset, passing through Devon where he stayed overnight, across Dorset and Wiltshire. There were 27 pilots competing.
Here is how describes his first big and successful cross country adventure: “I wanted to combine my passion for flying and the need due to getting older to complete something out of my comfort zone and challenging. I was in the Race category, unsupported the entire time. I had to walk to get fuel with my Paramotor, a long gruelling walk, climbing over fences and barriers to get there and back. Took off at 4:36 pm, landed 8:47 pm to camp overnight, left again at 5:11am, landed at 8:18 am before landing at the finish line at 9:08 am. My equipment consisted of my Parajet Maverick paramotor with extra large fuel tank and my …read more
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Chrigel Maurer has won the Red Bull X-Alps for an incredible sixth consecutive time, finishing in nine days and three hours
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All the excitement was at the back of the pack on Monday night, as Kinga Masztalerz and Chikyong Ha raced each other to escape the axeman
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“Less weight, zero limits”, is how Nova describe the Mentor 6 Light, the lightweight version of their high-performance EN-B paraglider
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The Synergy 7 paramotor is now available with EOS 150 motor, and its designer says it is a powerful easy-to-use setup that’s ideal for tandem paramotoring
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By the end of the weekend Chrigel Maurer was on his way to the Cheval Blanc, turnpoint 12, and the last to tag before the final run southeast to Peille
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Day 6, Friday 21st June and the longest day of the year was another hard day of racing for the athletes in the Red Bull X-Alps 2019
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OZONE is excited to announce that Kester Haynes has joined our team.
Kester Haynes is from UK and he has been flying since 2008. He works full time at Parajet / Gilo Industries, which produce paramotors, jet boards, Sky Car. He is their main test pilots, instructor, design and development engineer.
Kester loves adventure paramotor flying and he takes every opportunity to be a part of a paramotor expeditions anywhere in the World. He already completed many long distance cross country flights to remote places such as Brazilian Pantal and flown near erupting volcano Etna in Sicily. Kester says: “I have a passion for travel and adventure with various means of transport which include paragliders, paramotors, motorbikes, 4×4’s, jet boards. Even outside of work I still find myself designing and developing various flying machines and looking for the next expedition opportunity”
Together with Brazilian cinematographer Sylvestre Campe they travel around the World with paramotors producing adventurist TV series for Canal Off. They already visited Australia, Philippines, Cambodia, France, Italy, Sicily, Oman, Hawai, Namibia.
Kester Haynes occasionally works with Bear Grylls as his personal instructor, advisor or a tandem pilot.
Asked what flying means for you Kester says: “Flying has become a really …read more
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The theme for the FAI Young Artist Competition 2020 will be ‘Flying yesterday and tomorrow’. The competition is open to 6 to 17 year olds
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