Helmut Eichholzer and Klaudia Bulgakow win Paragliding World Cup Bulgaria 2008

The Skynomad Open, which followed the Paragliding World Cup in Sopot, Bulgaria, was a great success according to organisers.

The dates for 2009′s Bogong Cup Hang Gliding Championship (Mt Beauty, Victoria, Australia) are 14 – 22 January 2009

The Forbes Flatlands Hang Gliding Championship for 2009 takes place from Saturday 3 January – Sunday 11 January 2009

Craig Morgan is Britain’s new paragliding champion for 2008

The Cercle de l’homme volant, set up in memory of Jean-Marc Moulingny, are collecting items at the Coupe Icare for pilots in Cuba and Madagascar

Jean Marc Mouligne, will award a prize of €1,000 for the most innovative and poetical flying invention to be displayed at the Coupe Icare

Jocky Sanderson takes BBC presenter Andrew Marr on a paraglider, over the Shropshire countryside

The Spanish Hang Gliding Nationals took place at Arangoiti, near the Pyrenees, from 18-26 July 2008

Martin Kjellman crowned 2008 Swedish acro paragliding champion

37 year old snowboard instructor and mountain bike guide, Alex Rauter, has achieved his self-set challenge to ascend and fly off 7 peaks in his home ground of the Zugspitz, Tyrol, accumulating 8848m of ascent in total (the height of Everest).

The 2008 World Women’s and Rigid Hang Gliding championships took place in Sigillo, Italy, from 19 July to 2 August. Three events were run side by side, with the Women’s World (Class 1) championships flying different tasks from the small numbers of Class 2 and bigger field of Class 5 pilots, who flew the same [...]

The Paraglider Manufacturer’s Association, the PMA, has appointed an independent engineering bureau to produce an expertise and to scrutinize and compare the protector test rigs of the DHV and the EAPR. The analysis of the protector test rig of the EAPR has been completed and pronounced “capable to fulfill the task of measuring according to [...]

BJ Herring has set a new rigid wing distance to goal record of 240 miles

Czech pilot Karel Vejchodsky launched his Gradient Avax XC 2 on Monday 28 July at Nove Sady in the Czech Republic, and landed 335.94 km later in Germany breaking the European distance record (yet to be ratified). The flight, which began with a tow launch took Karel across the plains of the Czech Republic and [...]

A new edition of U-Turn’s Free Force DHV 2 glider has now been released. It boasts a trendy new livery and the latest Dyneema lines with optimised extension behaviour for those who like to throw their glider around in the air. Its safety is in part down the the Automatic Flight Stabilisation (AFS) technology it [...]

There will provisionally be a pre-PWC (FAI Cat 2) event in Bir-Billing, Himachal Pradesh, from 14 – 20 October 2008. A 5-man technical team has been named to run the event with Vijay Soni as meet director, backed by Himachal Tourism. Entries are being taken now until the end of September. The entry fee of [...]