XCshop are stocking Blazewear’s new top-of-the-range Powermax gloves and heated shoe insoles to keep pilots warm this winter.

Godfrey Wenness and Petra Zelwegger have won the 2011 XC Open World Series

Pilot registration for the first two 2012 XC-Open World Series competitions is open

All the action from the Coupe Icare. Who made the XCmag wall of fame?

Czech manufactuer Gradient have upgraded their paraglider rucksack

Eternity Press have released an A3 2012 calendar, showcasing some of the best sites from Oliver Guenay’s Best Flying Sites in the Alps book

A South African team of paraglider pilots flew from Mt Kilimanjaro on 16 September

Top three short films destined for the silver screen at St Hilaire

Team Robotunits won the Red Bull Dolomitenmann 2011, held in Austria on 11 September

With only a few days until the Coupe Icare film festival, the film entries have been announced.

France’s Jean-Marc Caron has won the paragliding pre-Europeans

Martin Muller won the XC Open in Portugal with a 225km best flight

Free Flight Airlog is an iPhone logbook app for hang glider and paraglider pilots

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John Clarke on learning to hang glide in the 1970s, with a one-legged mate called Norman…

Tributes have been paid to Enio Wilson, who tragically died at the Brazilian Hang Gliding Nationals

Last post and final words from the Women’s Open in Spain

To task or not to task… Judith Mole reports from Ager

Horacio Llorens won the Sonchaux Acro Show held in Lausanne over the weekend of 19-21 August

‘More schoolgirl errors…’ writes Judith Mole at the Women’s Open in Spain