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The Skynch is a solo winch that hang glider and paraglider pilots can mount on their car tow hitch, and operate by remote control to launch themselves unaided.

Further places are now available in the European Hang Gliding Championship (for Class 1, flexwings) which is to be held in Ager in July.

The Canadian Hang Gliding Championship 2010 takes place in Lumby, BC, from 13 - 19 June.

The Nissan Outdoor Games is back for its sixth consecutive summer. Five teams of sportspeople and filmmakers will each make a five-minute film, this time in Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, France. The fifth team's director's chair is still vacant - Julbo are running a competition to fill this role.

20th Century Fox have released the trailer to next Spring's 3D animated movie, Rio. featuring macaws, the Christ statue and hang gliders it looks set to be a huge hit.

Have your say: Sky Gods for Hire in Cross Country issue 129 argued that flying guides could help hang glider and paraglider pilots skip weeks of D.I.Y 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 European Paragliding Championships in Abtenau, Austria, will be the first major competition to feature ‘real-time’ live tracking

Manfred Ruhmer is the new Class 2 hang gliding world champion, following two weeks of atrocious weather at the Women's and Class 2 Hang Gliding World Championships at Tegelberg, Germany.

The Phoenix 1 paraglider wheelchair, created by ABLE and the University of Utah, is to be unveiled on the US's National Hang Gliding and Paragliding Day – Saturday 29 May 2010.

The FIA El Yelmo International Air film festival in Andalucia, Spain, takes place on 1 - 4 July 2010. The deadline for submissions to the film and photo contests is 18 June.