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The St Hil AirTour is a 289km hike-and-fly race that starts and finishes at the French hotspot of free-flight that is St Hilaire du Touvet

Italian pilot Benedetto Lo Tufo wins his choice of paraglider from either Aircross, Apco, Gin, Gradient, Ozone or Sol in the Cross Country Magazine Readers Draw

Australia's Gulgong Classic hang gliding competition finished on 27th November, and it was Jonny Durand jnr who lifted the cup again after a nail-biting six-task competition.

The world’s toughest adventure paragliding race has announced two late additions to its athlete list: Austria's Paul Guschlbauer and Britain's Jon Chambers.

It's not yet four months since Hungarian paragliding acro experts Pál Takáts and Gábor Kézi performed the world's first infinite tumble on a tandem paraglider. Now Pál is offering passengers the benefit of his expertise and specially reinforced wing, to take a tandem infinite tumble ride.

Ewa Wisnierska and 'mad' Mike Kung launched their tandem paraglider from a hot air balloon over Bavaria earlier this month.

Great racing conditions, good organisation, fantastic Greek food, folk music and dances and breathtaking scenery made for an ideal week in West Greece at the end of August for the pre- world cup.

CIVL, the body that looks after hang gliding and paragliding records and competitions, met at the end of October.

APCO have brought out their first ever competition pod paragliding harness – the Blade.

Italy's Nicole Fedele has claimed a new women's paragliding world record for 'Distance using up to three turn points'.