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Alex Ploner Takes Gold at the HG Europeans

Italy’s Alex Ploner won his second European Hang Gliding Championship title yesterday, taking gold at the 2018 Class 1 European Hang Gliding Championships
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European Paragliding Championships: 17-24 July

The 2018 European Paragliding Championships kick-off today, with the first task of the two week competition
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Free Flight Photographer of 2018

Look out your best images and enter our inaugural Free Flight Photographer of the Year 2018 competition
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Richard Carter flies 300k for new UK record

Richard Carter set a new UK paragliding record on Sunday 15 July – flying the country’s first 300km paraglider flight across the country
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Supair Delight 3 lightweight pod harness

Supair's Delight 3 is a "light and precise" cross-country pod harness with "optimised passive safety"
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Sky Z-Blade freestyle PPG wing

Sky have released the Z-Blade, a "small and dynamic PPG wing for radical freestylers and slalom and pylon competition racers”
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Jérôme Maupoint’s Stolen Moments 3 out

The third volume of Jérôme Maupoint's coffee-table book is out!
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Approved instruments for cat 1 competitions

CIVL have published a list of approved flight instruments for FAI Category 1 competitions
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Cross Country 192: August 2018

Paragliding is an adventure, it allows us to explore dazzling new landscapes and pioneer untrammelled lines through some of the world’s most beautiful places. This month, we go further, higher and wilder.
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Line-up for AcroGame 2018 announced

AcroGame 2018 has announced its pilot list – 15 of the world’s best acro pilots going head-to-head in a fast and furious battle above Organya, Spain in the first weekend of August
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