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Corinna Schwiegershausenn pays tribute to her friend Guido Gehrmann

Corinna Schwiegershausenn has paid a moving tribute to her friend Guido Gehrmann on her blog, Corinna Flies. Guido died yesterday in a plane crash
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Guido Gehrmann in fatal plane crash

Guido Gehrmann, former world hang gliding champion, has died in a plane crash. He was 38.
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Mads World: World Paragliding Series Q&A

In March after "immense deliberation" competition pilot Mads Syndergaard bit the bullet and launched his very own Open Class paragliding competition series. We asked him how it's going
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The new Gin Atlas, on test in Morocco. Photo: Jerome Maupoint

GIN Wide Open: Sponsorship announced

Organisers of the Wide Open, a new fun competition in Meduno, Italy have announced GIN Gliders will now be supporting the competition.
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Red Bull X-Alps 2013 route

Red Bull X-Alps 2013: New route is longest yet at 1,000+ km

The Red Bull X-Alps 2013 is to be the biggest yet, with organisers announcing that the route is now more than 1,000km long as the crow flies.
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The Red Bull X-Alps 2013: Ten years of pain and glory

Nick Warren, communications manager for the Red Bull X-Alps in 2011, relives the decade-long history of the world's toughest adventure race
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Air Turquoise refuse to test EN D competition wings

Alain Zoller and the team at Air Turquoise have issued a statement saying that they have made a 'decision to stop immediately certification of "Gun" competition gliders'.
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Antoine Boisellier in the core. Photo: Antoine Boisellier

In issue 146: Hang Gliding World Championships

We devote this issue's Gallery to the photography from this brilliant high-level competition
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Gliders at the Superfinal in Colombia. Photo: Federico Rios

In issue 146: Yassen Savov On Fire

If it's there, pilots will flirt with it. And on this day boy did they have some fun! Off-the-scale lift measured at 19m/s as pilots flew into 'fire thermals'. Yassen Savov relives his reserve ride through the inferno
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Competition gliders at the PWC in Sun Valley, Idaho. Photo: Nick Greece

CIVL Votes for new Competition Class from 2015

A new competition class of paraglider is to be introduced from 2015, following a meeting of CIVL over the weekend of 16-17 February.
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