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Updates from around the paragliding and free-flying world

Baptiste Rousset’s acro extravaganza

Bat Rousset 2009 - French paragliding acro ace Baptiste Rousset's short video of some of his airborne exploits from 2009.
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Bridge Swoop: Wolfgang Siess hang glides under a bridge

Video of Austrian hang glider pilot Wolfi Siess, elegantly flying his glider beneath a river bridge before executing a perfect landing on a tiny beach.
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XC360: WIN a Sup’Air Harness in the XCMag.com Short Film Competition

Cross Country magazine are running a short-film competition via their Facebook pages, top prize being a Sup'Air Evo XC 2 paragliding harness. Closing date for entries is 31 August 2010.
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Pro Design’s new performance intermediate paraglider: the Thema 2

Pro Design's new performance intermediate paraglider, the EN B Thema 2, is ready and distribution starts in the middle of June.
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Ozone’s new paraglider, the Delta, certified EN C

Ozone's long-awaited sports paraglider, the Delta, has now passed EN C certification in the M size and is in production, shipping to pilots all over the world from today.
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Stephane Drouin breaks speed over 200 km triangle paragliding record

French pilot Stephane Drouin has (provisionally) broken the paraglider world record for speed over a triangular course of 200 km with a flight from Aime in the Haute Tarentaise on 24 May.
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Corinna Schwiegershausen overall German hang gliding champion 2010

Women stormed to victory at the German Hang Gliding Open in Hochries last week. Natalia Petrova won the Open outright, and Corinna Schwiegershausen (second in the open) is the new overall German champion, with Konrad Schwab top male.
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Gin Boomerang GTO EN D certified competition paraglider

Gin have created a slightly tamed version of their Boomerang 7 competiton paraglider: the Boomerang GTO is a race machine that is certified EN / LTF D, yet has "the performance of last year's competition wings".
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Speed flying paragliders with Ozone

Ozone Paragliders have released a new speed flying video introducing the sport and their speed flying wings. Features some great on-board footage!
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Hang Gliding World championships 2010 Trailer

Flymovies have released their trailer for the Hang Gliding World Championships 2010 that took place at Tegelberg, Germany, this month.
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