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Updates from around the paragliding and free-flying world

Apco F1

Apco F1 PPG wing: ‘The Fast One’

The F1, ‘The Fast One’, is the new competition PPG wing from Apco, who say it’s the highest-performing PPG wing they have ever released
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AcroGAME 2019. Photo: Laurent Merle

Full video: AcroGAME 2019

You’ve got to be innovative and you have to be an expert acro pilot just to take part in the AcroGame, Acro’s sharpest, most powerful acro battle
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Flying down during the Advance Red Bull X-Alps fly-in, 3 September 2019. Photo: Marcus King

Team Advance celebrate their X-Alps success

Advance celebrated its summer success at the Red Bull X-Alps with a mass hike-and-fly of about 50 pilots
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Sky Skylighter 4

New: Skylighter 4 harness from Sky

Sky have updated their lightweight cross-country pod harness: the Skylighter 4 was released in August 2019, and is a hammock-style pod harness
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Drone-FPV-Paragliding

Video: Acro Paragliding Meets FPV

This is what happens when you combine acro paragliding with first person view drone filming over a fjord in Norway
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Coupe Icare Icarnaval prize 2019

Win a paraglider in Coupe Icare fancy-dress comp

A Dudek Universal 1.1 paraglider, decorated in the 46th Coupe Icare colours, will be one of the prizes in the fancy-dress contest at the 2019 Coupe Icare
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Soaring the Matterhorn by Tobias Dimmler

Cross Country 203: September 2019

From soaring the summit of the Matterhorn to winning the FAI Hang Gliding World Championships – it's all in the latest issue
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Nervures Kido

Nervures Kido pro tandem wing

Nervures have released the Kido, a 41m² tandem paraglider for the professional market
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Gin Verso 3 harness

Gin Verso 3 reversible harness

Gin have updated their lightweight reversible paraglider harness, releasing the new "travel all-in-one" Verso 3
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Joachim Oberhauser at goal on the last task at the FAI Paragliding World Championships 2019. Photo: FAI / Marcus King

Joachim Oberhauser wins 2019 Paragliding World Championships

Paragliding World Championship gold for Joachim and Meryl Delferriere – plus an incredible joint-first for Italy and France
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