Alex Rodriguez, brother of acro stars Raul and Felix, has sadly died after a paragliding accident in Spain.

Long-time Hewlett Packard employee and Nova team pilot Mik Broschart has joined Nova as their global account & marketing manager.

APCO have updated their helmet range for 2010. The open-face, lightweight FreeAir II, the full-face, visored Speed II and open-face visored Blade II are featured.

The Jura Open and Jura Light Open hang gliding competitions take place in the Biel region of Switzerland from 20 – 24 May 2010.

The Xpress is a new mini paraglider from UP, due out in May 2010. The German company are rather excited about it …

Flytec are offering the option of incorporating a Flarm, air traffic warning device, into their 6020 and 6030 flight instruments for hang gliders and paragliders.

Livetrack24lite is an Apple iPhone GPS tracking app which also displays airspace, and has been created with hang glider and paraglider pilots in mind.

As the Himalayan Odyssey team celebrate their half-way point at Mahendranagar, the Across Himalaya team are just starting out on their own 2010 mission.

The Biotech Bordairline adventure races are a series of paraglider hike-and-fly races, which will be flown in four countries in 2010.

Tendencia Outdoor’s videos of the XC Open World Series paragliding competition in Araxa, Brazil, October 2009

Felipe Rezende has won the Bright Paragliding Open 2010, flying a Niviuk Icepeak 3

Airwave have announced that long-time UP designer and former world champion Stephan Stieglair will be moving from the German company and heading up Airwave’s R&D team.

The Ghana Paragliding Festival has become an integral part of the annual Easter celebrations at Nkawkaw since the first one in 2005, and this year it takes place from April 2-5 2010.

The second ever Beach Blast takes place from 3 – 5 May 2010 at Florida’s Edgewater beach resort. Pilots are invited to come and join the fun.

British paragliding and hang gliding pilots are being urged to act quickly if they want to save their freedom to fly.

A new version of software, 1.20, for the LK8000 gliding / soaring pocket computer 1.20 is available to test.

GPS dump, Stein Sørensen’s software that enables uploading and downloading of files between GPS devices and PCs is now also available for Macs.

Austrian Thomas Weissenberger won the Aeros Winter Race, which took place from 10 – 14 March 2010 in Ajdovscina and Kovk, Slovenia. See the video of the event here.

Swing’s new intermediate paraglider, the Mistral 6, has been certified EN B in sizes 24, 26 and 28, and is now available from your Swing dealer.

Swing’s Mistral 6 intermediate paraglider is now out, and 40 test models are available to be flown in Bassano, Italy, from 21 – 28 March 2010.