Czech paragliding company Gradient have a new-design T-shirt and gilet for 2011, with ‘I love Gradient’ motif.

Nova have expanded their clothing range for 2011 with a warm and cosy hoody and a polo shirt.

The United States Hang Gliding and Paragliding Association have two wall calendars for 2011, one featuring hang gliding images, and the other paragliding.

Sky have made a quick-pack paraglider bag that will accomodate kit of different volumes, for students and tandem pilots and anyone who repacks their wing several times a day.

After a year in development, Escape’s new two-line competition paraglider, the S’Max Revolution, is ready for the 2011 season.

Ozone have released their 2011 Flying Tips desktop calendar and are taking orders now.

French company Escape have designed a set of paraglider tandem spreaders for pilots who fly with lightweight passengers.

The third generation of Skywalk’s flagship paraglider, the serial class Poison, has been certified EN / LTF D in sizes S and M.

Red Bull release Judgment Day: a video explaining the selection process for the Red Bull X-Alps, the most gruelling paragliding adventure race in the world

The wonderfully named ‘Flying Rags for Glory: the A-Z of competition paragliding’ hit the shops at the beginning of the month and is the current best selling item at XCShop.com. Mads’ Syndergaard’s exhaustive work is a first of its kind. Normally competitions have been relegated to a sub-section of general flying books, when in truth, [...]

Oliver Rössel, the current German serial class paragliding champion and one of the most successful competition pilots in the world, is running cross country training camps in the Alps next season.

German firm Aircross have created a lightweight version of their serial class racer: The U-Sport Evo is 3 kilos lighter than the original U-Sport, and Aircross’ test pilots are reporting better launch characteristics and climbing performance as a result.

Ecuadorian pilot Juan Carlos Morán Reinoso has broken Ecuador’s Open Distance paraglider record with a flight of 85.8 km from Bototillo on 24 November.

2009 Red Bull X-Alps winning team Chrigel Maurer and Thomas Theurillat will be giving a slide show and talk on “the Red Bull X-Alps 2009 – as it really was” at the Salzburg Mountain film festival tomorrow night, 7 December.

Organisers Moyes have made some late changes to the format of the Forbes Flatlands hang gliding championships, which take place in January 2011. Details are below, and entries should be received by this Friday, 10 December 2010.

Advance’s Andy Hediger won the “Merrell Cup”, also the Argentinean Paragliding open, which took place in Tucuman, Argentina, during the third week of September.

Brazilian Gustavo Ferreira won the first of three rounds of the XC Open Series for 2011, which was held in Araxá, Brazil in October 2010.

The St Hil AirTour is a 289km hike-and-fly race that starts and finishes at the French hotspot of free-flight that is St Hilaire du Touvet

Italian pilot Benedetto Lo Tufo wins his choice of paraglider from either Aircross, Apco, Gin, Gradient, Ozone or Sol in the Cross Country Magazine Readers Draw