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Australia’s Gulgong Classic hang gliding competition finished on 27th November, and it was Jonny Durand jnr who lifted the cup again after a nail-biting six-task competition.

The world’s toughest adventure paragliding race has announced two late additions to its athlete list: Austria’s Paul Guschlbauer and Britain’s Jon Chambers.

It’s not yet four months since Hungarian paragliding acro experts Pál Takáts and Gábor Kézi performed the world’s first infinite tumble on a tandem paraglider. Now Pál is offering passengers the benefit of his expertise and specially reinforced wing, to take a tandem infinite tumble ride.

The Midwinter Uplift is an all-day paragliding and hang gliding festival in Shrewsbury, Shropshire near the fabled British XC site of Long Mynd.

Ewa Wisnierska and ‘mad’ Mike Kung launched their tandem paraglider from a hot air balloon over Bavaria earlier this month.

Great racing conditions, good organisation, fantastic Greek food, folk music and dances and breathtaking scenery made for an ideal week in West Greece at the end of August for the pre- world cup.

UP, in collaboration with Mountain Works of Sweden, have made an 800 fill goose down jacket and vest to keep pilots warm when the temperature falls.

CIVL, the body that looks after hang gliding and paragliding records and competitions, met at the end of October.

APCO have brought out their first ever competition pod paragliding harness – the Blade.

Italy’s Nicole Fedele has claimed a new women’s paragliding world record for ‘Distance using up to three turn points’.

SIV guru and paragliding filmmaker Jocky Sanderson is hosting Free Flight night at the Kendal Mountain Festival in England’s Lake District on Thursday 18 November 2010.

Planning for the 2011 Flight Festival, which will take place at Germany’s Tegelberg from 1 – 3 October 2011, is already underway.

UP have announced two new members will be joining their team: Red Bull X-Alps athlete Stefan ‘Boxi’ Bocks and aeronautical engineer Bernhard Lechner will be starting with them in 2011.

Ozone pilot Che Golus (R10) won the 2010 Canungra Cup, which kicked off the Australian 2010-2011 season on 23 – 30 October.

Aërius’ range of thermal bags have been designed to pack paraglider and paramotor equipment into, to protect them from the damaging effects of excessive heat when they are stored, for example, in the boot of a car.

Skywalk’s electric paraglider propulsion system, the E-Walk, is nearing completion and should be available to buy from early 2011.

Ed Ewing, Cross Country magazine’s multi-talented and ever-modest editor, just let slip that he picked up a journalistic Oscar for his work at the Guardian newspaper last weekend.

In spring 2011, Charly Produkte are planning to release their electric ‘ascent aid’ for paragliders to the market. They have sent us these videos to show how the project is coming along.

Hugh Miller is organising a paragliding aero battle between pilots from the north and the south of Great Britain, next May. Register your interest before 31 January 2011.