FLYING WITH AND WITHOUT COLLABORATIVE HITECH INSTRUMENTS
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Fly by feeling, by sound, with a screen, collaboratively or in a network. Paragliders are one of the few aircrafts where all of these are possible…
Seven Virgin Summits, Antarctica
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At the end of last year Juraj “Ďurifuk” Koreň and Michal Sabovík started the first part of a unique seven-part project – seven unclimbed summits on seven continents, which they wanted to climb and fly down from on a paraglider. Linking together earth and air, and a third one, water, by using a sailboat, kayak or raft.
FIRST TEST NIVIUK ARTIK 5
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The Artik 5 is now available. Philippe Lami has flown it a few times and gives us his first impressions…
Flying norms
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The EN norms govern numerous aspects of paragliding, but where do they come from and who draws them up?
NEO STAY UP
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The StayUp is an ultra-light hammock style harness for hike&fly without a seat board. Instead, underneath, there is a 9 cm Neo Koroyd 2 protector: it’s an ensemble of foam and, above all, little tubes in copolymer, which is a special form of polymer...
SUPAIR STRIKE
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The Strike came from the development of the X-Alps 2015 Supair harness. It’s a harness which is ‘purpose made for hike and fly competitions,’ but, in reality, it is actually a lot more flexible, as Supair have also pointed out.
COCOONING
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The Cocoons: a trend bringing comfort, performance and an extra means of control.
Phi Symphonia
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The Symphonia is an ambitious leisure wing, which has all the characteristics of a good EN B, as far as performance and flying are concerned, except that it is certified as an EN A!
Weather
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In May, typical summer time temperatures were recorded in numerous regions. So why was it hardly ever flyable?
WE ARE THE ROVERS, NORWAY
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After Korea and Scotland, the Rovers went to the Norwegian fords to make another film. The film will come out at the end of the summer. In the meantime, here are some amazing pictures by Louis Garnier who accompanied the team…