Updates from around the paragliding and free-flying world
Hang gliding: Hang glider designer Felix Ruehle, previously of Pegasus and Flight Design, revealed his new ATOS design at the Thermik show in December…
Read moreAndy Elson and Colin Prescot flew the Cable and Wireless balloon 17 days and 17 hours to earn a world record in March 1999. Cross Country magazine was on hand to interview the pair…
Read moreA new Paragliding World Cup is scheduled to take place in South America. The event will take place from February 9-14 1999, right in the middle of Argentina’s summer.
Read moreDavor Jardas describes what it was like to get sucked to 7,000 m on his paraglider in a paragliding competition in Croatia in the late 1990s
Read moreStrong winds and organisational misunderstandings hampered the first Paragliding World Cup of 1999 in Cordoba, Argentina…
Read moreParagliding and hang gliding in Australia – Carol Binder rounds up the season for 1999…
Read moreHang gliding legend Dennis Pagen reviews the Bautek Twist hang glider
Read moreI had expected the new sports paraglider from Edel to be a replacement for the Saber – a solid DHV 2 wing. I was looking for bombproof, twitchless characteristics for paragliding…
Read moreMy paragliding harness creaks like an old saddle under the force of the thermal I’m riding. The ferocity of the thermals as they blast us upward through the rarefied air above 20,000ft is phenomenal.
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Will Gadd’s paragliding world record was smashed by Australian pilot Godfrey Wenness on 16 November 1998…
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