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We don't this that seriously. Discuss "Harry is un CIVL" at the Oz Report forum   link» ...

Photos by Dean Funk Discuss "Spring has sprung here" at the Oz Report forum   link» ...

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The Stubai Cup in March was the first chance to see what the paragliding companies have for the new season. We spoke to them to find out what they were excited about for 2014. Includes interviews with Nova, Sup’Air, Apco, Advance, Skywalk, MacPara, AirG, AirDesign, BGD, Triple 7, Skyman, Swing, U-Turn, Sky Paragliders and others. […]...

Greg Knudson sets a 200km out-and-return world record in Kerio, Kenya. • Got news? Send it to us at news@xcmag.com Buy and sell gear on Skyads.aero Home...

  The Oz Report has reported the death of the Israeli hang glider pilot Amir Shalom. The report says that Amir took his own life last weekend and was laid to rest on Monday. Amir was a well known figure in the international competition scene, and a “pillar of the Israeli Hang Gliding Association”. In […]...

It is hard to get a meet organizer to put on a Worlds for Women only (There aren't enough of them in hang gliding competition.). So when rigids came along they got tacked on to the Women's Worlds to build up the number of contestants. Then Swifts got tacked on. And this year it is Sport Class. But not enough pilots have attended Sport Class competitions (like our successful circuit in the US) to provide...

https://vimeo.com/66988889 Flying over Newcastle and its sites. Hill height max 88 meters asl. Most of what's going on is way below hill height. Dixon Park landing area is 25 meters ASL, no room for error. Have to get it right and yes, I, we, are enjoying what we do immensely!. Some say these maneuvers are performed way too low. It's all we have to work with, we don't have the luxury of thousands...

Curt writes: We just rolled into Dalby. Steve McCarthy has recently landed, flying Bill's dragonfly (that makes four I can see) from Gulgong. Soggy ground but BeAuTiFuL sky. We hope to see lots of pilots next week for the Dalby Big Air Comp! Our only "dry" landing options today were the roads, and even that wasn't a sure thing... Good weather/flying today, though! http://www.warrenwindsports.com.au/events/2014-dalby-big-air-hang-gliding-comp...

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/31/with-the-thrills-come-extreme-risks/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0 At the recent annual meeting of the American Association of Orthopedic Surgeons, Dr. Sabesan reported that more than 40,000 such injuries occur annually among participants in seven extreme sports, including skateboarding, snowboarding, mountain biking and motocross. Her analysis showed...

Dean Funk captures the pull in on final glide to keep up the speed well below tree level (actually that's the launch). And as he is at the side of the landing you get a very good look at how high the hands are and where the bar is. Discuss "A sideways glance at the monkey landing" at the Oz Report forum   link» ...

Designed and built as a partnership between Steve Pearson and Dustin Martin Wills Wing will be taking up from where Jeff Shapiro left off, designing and creating a new competition harness that will in the not too distance future be available from them. I have published pictures of the prototypes previously. This is what the prototype looks like: Steve and Dustin formed a design partnership with Dustin...

http://www.iksurfmag.com/kitesurfing-news/2014/03/k2-kitefoiler-in-san-francisco-bay-2013/ Discuss "Kiting" at the Oz Report forum   link» ...

It was the summer of 1989 and I had just flown my second cross country flight ever. I had purchased a used Wills Wing Euro Sport and flown twenty nine miles from Chelan Butte past Mansfield. (My previous cross country flight was on a Pacific Airwaves Vision 20, twelve miles north from Chelan, a year earlier.) I headed south with my driver to Oregon from Seattle and hooked up with the Wills Wing pilots...

http://dca.ffvl.fr/hg2014/index.php/en/ Stephane Malbos writes: We are two days from the end of the registration for the multi-class Hang Gliding Worlds in Annecy, France, next June. The allocation round will take part on April the 5th. So far, 111 pilots have registered themselves, but only forty one have been confirmed by their NAC. According to our rules (Section 7), it is NOT sufficient that pilots...

The local NPR station kept saying that it was sunny, when it clearly wasn't. On Monday and Tuesday we had two enjoyable days here at Quest Air with dozens of pilots and lots of flying in very light winds. Both days were forecast to be sunny but Monday had high clouds like this all day: The sun was filtered all day and while there were lots of flights they mostly lasted less sometimes much less than...

Mark Dowsett flew the new Wills Wing training glider (after aerotowing it), the Alpha 180, for the new world record distance for this class of glider 23 km south along highway 33 almost to Dean Still Road. He'll try again for Wallaby Ranch on Wednesday. Maybe we should turn this into CIVL and make sure that they have an Alpha class. Mark landing his Alpha here . http://www.xcontest.org/world/en/flights/detail:markdowsett/1.4.2014/18:48...

The video here . Discuss "Zac and Majo tandem at Quest Air" at the Oz Report forum   link» ...