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Coupe Icare 2019 poster

Coupe Icare 2019: 19-22 September

The 46th Coupe Icare, Icarus Cup, starts on Thursday 19 September and will attract an estimated 100,000 spectators over the four-day flying festival
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Xwings Hero

Customised HG harness: Xwings Hero

Xwings custom-make their Hero hang glider race harness to fit the pilot, and then print on it whatever design the pilot chooses. Each one is truly unique.
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PWC 2019 Brazil women podium

PWC 2019: Baptiste Lambert wins in Brazil

Baptiste Lambert and Marcella Uchoa won the Brazil round of the 2019 PWC tour in Andradas, after a nail-biting finish and a stopped final task
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Red Bull Dolomitenmann 2019 podium

Chrigel’s team win Red Bull Dolomitenmann 2019

The Red Bull Dolomitenmann took place in Lienz, Austria, on 7 September 2019. Chrigel Maurer was the paraglider pilot on the winning team
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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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