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Andean condor

Understanding how condors fly

Emily Shepard and her team at Swansea University have been tagging and tracking condors for five years. They have learnt that condors almost never flap in flight
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Competing on a serial class wing

Comp series: Competing on a Serial wing

'The truth is, I was really scared before the competition...' Hugh Miller on how to get the most out of your first paragliding competitions
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Masterclass: How we set a 300km record with Jošt Napret

Jošt Napret explains how he, Primoz Susa, Bojan Gabersek and Dušan Orož set a 300km out-and-return paragliding world record in Slovenia
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Chrigel Maurer performs during the Red Bull X-Alps 2021 at Mont Blanc, France on June 26, 2021

Meteorology: Understanding mountain gap winds

Every pilot knows about the Venturi. But do you know about "gap winds", where the same effect happens on a much larger scale? Here's a serious primer.
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Skywalk thermalling

Thermalling: how tight should you turn?

“Turn tighter!” is something paraglider pilots all hear at one point in their flying careers. But how tight? Martin Morlet has crunched the numbers
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Antoine Girard

Masterclass: Flying at extreme altitude with Antoine Girard

Antoine Girard explains how he flew above Broad Peak in Pakistan on 18 July 2021, setting a new world record for high-altitude paragliding
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François Rogalski

Masterclass: Skiing and paragliding in the Karakoram with François Ragolski

François Ragolski shares his remarkable story of his 199km, eight-hour cross country flight through the Hunza region
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A temperature map for western North America on 29 June 2021, when an all-time high temperature of 49.6C was recorded in Lytton, British Columbia, western Canada. The next day the village was evacuated before it burnt to the ground as a wildfire swept through. Two people were killed. Image: Nasa

Extreme weather? Think ‘compound event’

A succession of record-breaking natural disasters swept the globe in 2021, including floods, heatwaves, drought and wildfires
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Théo de Blic Spiral Tutorial

Théo de Blic’s Spiral Dive Tutorial

Want to know how to spiral dive like a pro? Théo de Blic and Nova have released a 27-minute spiral dive masterclass.
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How to read the clouds

Seb Benz on how to read the clouds

Seb Benz explains what to look for when looking at cumulus clouds. How can paraglider and hang glider pilots read clouds – and get it right?
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