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Icaro Paragliders' Xandi Meschuh, of Acrobatics fame, has released this new short film called 'In the Spring'.

The fast-pack bag from Icaro Paragliders is suitable for all solo wings, and helps pack the wing more easily, whilst preserving its ife by protecting the leading edge reinforcements and keeping them from getting crumpled.

The Turkish free-flying paradise of Oludeniz and Babadag mountain, where the 2010 Oludeniz Air Games will take place this October, have been getting ready to host the autumn's big event.

Gradient's Golden3 intermediate paraglider has now been certified EN / LTF B in the XS size, 22 m2.

Following two years' hard work from Felix Rodriguez and the Ozone team, the latest professional acro paraglider for experienced and competition acro pilots, the FLX.3, is now in production.

Christian Holler's 'The Path of the Condor' film is to be aired on the Discovery Networks' Animal Planet channel in the Asia-Pacific area, starting July 2010.

Sky Gods for Hire in Cross Country issue 129 argued that flying guides could help hang glider and paraglider pilots skip weeks of do-it-yourself learning. But it also argued you want a sky god for a guide, not a cowboy and asked “Is it time for an internationally recognised standard for fly-guides?”

The second Asian Paragliding World Cup round finished in Linzhou, China, on 9 June. Russian Andrey Eliseev and France's Orlane Sturbois were the male and female winners.

The Snaplock is a new lightweight and easy-to-use karabiner for paragliding from Finsterwalder & Charly. Despite being half the weight of a steel krab, it has an incredible 30 kN (3,000 kg) breaking strength.

23-year-old 2007 junior French champion Alexandre Jofresa has won the first round of the British Paragliding Open that was held in Kobarid, Slovenia, from 5 - 12 June. In second place and first Brit was Jamie Messenger.