Records

Hugo Hadaš – just 17 – flies 500km in Brazil

Hugo Hadaš has become the youngest person to fly 500km after a record-breaking flight in north-east Brazil, with Stanislav Klikar
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‘It was A day to remember forever’

On 9 July Galen Kirkpatrick broke the US / North American FAI Triangle record, she tells the story of that day
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Abel at launch

Abel Varga

Ed Ewing chats to Abel Varga about his recent record flight flying border to border across the flatlands of Hungary
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Andy Aebi on his Phi Scala 2, on his way to the paramotor closed-circuit distance world record

Andy Aebi flies paramotor World Record

Andy Aebi foot-launched his paramotor from Wildberg airport in Germany and flew a 883km FAI triangle on 15 July – potentially a World record
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Honorin Hamard, Jonathan Marin, Maxime Pinot, Michel Cervellin, Tim Alongi and Julien Garcia all launched from a small site northwest of Paris and flew almost due south, landing close to the town of Bergerac.

Six pilots set new French paragliding record

Six pilots will share the new French national paragliding record after they all flew 457km straight-line across France
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XContest screen shot of 329.9km European record flight

European declared-goal paragliding record falls in Spain

Spanish pilots Marcelo Sanchez and Paco Navarro Gonzalez took the European 'Straight Distance to a declared Goal' PG record to 329.9km
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Philipp Zellner 272km from Bir

Philipp Zellner flies 272km from Bir

Austrian pilot Philipp Zellner set a new site record from Bir/Billing on 7 April 2022, with a 272km flight that took him into the high mountains
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Nova Aonic paraglider

Toni Brügger: 214km triangle on an EN-A

On 4 March 2022, Nova Team Pilot Toni Brügger flew a 214km FAI triangle in Ticino, Switzerland, on an EN-A Nova Aonic
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Masterclass: How we set a 300km record with Jošt Napret

Jošt Napret explains how he, Primoz Susa, Bojan Gabersek and Dušan Orož set a 300km out-and-return paragliding world record in Slovenia
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Jouni Makkonen

Jouni Makkonen flies 500km in Europe

Jouni Makkonen flew 500km across Finland in June 2021 to set a new European paragliding record for open distance. He tells us his story
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