The World Air Games in Dubai was the biggest multi-airsports competition ever. We were there The World Air Games are the air sports equivalent of the Olympic Games – an attempt to bring together the world’s best pilots in multiple disciplines to compete over two weeks in one place. Like the Olympics they are supposed […]
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Gavin McClurg is a Red Bull X-Alps pilot, a National Geographic Adventurer of the Year nominee for vol-biv and holds the North American paragliding footlaunch record. He hosts the Cloudbase Mayhem podcasts at www.cloudbasemayhem.com Well here goes, the first entry for my new column in Cross Country. The editor first suggested ‘Big Guns McClurg’ for […]
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Speedflying the Jungfraujoch with DanA Max Mittmann flies the Eiger, Monch and Jungfrau in one spectacular flight To fly over the Eiger, Mönch and Jungfrau is one of the most impressive flying experiences in the Alps. But it’s not often possible to take off from the 3,500m high Jungfraujoch – the weather and wind have […]
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Giles Fowler explains how to set a height record in paramotoring Flying above 10,000ft the CAA recommends using supplementary oxygen, and above 35,000ft 100% oxygen is needed. During the 2014 preparation we visited the RAF Centre of Aviation Medicine (UK) and quickly realised the seriousness of what we planned. Air pressure at 25,000ft is so […]
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Flying at altitude brings its own demands – and you don’t even have to be that high. Altitude specialist Dr Matt Wilkes gives us the lowdown When Tom de Dorlodot took off one bright morning in Pakistan’s Hushe Valley, he didn’t see himself getting particularly high. Though he was in the Karakoram to break the […]
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We explain what effect inversions, airmasses and high and low pressure systems can have on your day’s paragliding or hang gliding.
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Mike Campbell-Jones has been flying for 30 years and designing paragliders for 20. A former instructor he founded Paramania and helped to develop the reflex paraglider. In his column in issue 165 he discussed our flying playground The abbreviation AGL = Above Ground Level, is where all flying activity takes place. For pilots, the sky is […]
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Bruce Goldsmith has been flying since the 1980s. He has been British Hang Gliding Champion twice, British Paragliding Champion three times and was Paragliding World Champion in 2007. He has been designing paragliders for 20 years. His Icaristics column in issue 163 revisited the subject of thermalling. For the last six months I have been giving […]
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Meteorologist Honza Rejmanek has been a paraglider pilot since 1993. He has competed in four Red Bull X-Alps, and came third in 2009. He lives in California. In his Meteorology column in issue 163 he wrote about microbursts. In most cases you are likely to receive strange looks if you publicly express a fear of […]
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Jon Chambers has been flying for over 20 years and has competed in the Red Bull X-Alps twice. He lives in Geneva and flies in the Alps where he enjoys being a Tandem Dad to his kids. He is the author of Hanging in There, a book about the X-Alps. His regular column in issue […]
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