US pilot Nick Greece is appealing for help to support the Cloudbase Foundation in Ghana

Arrested US paraglider pilots to be released on bail but no court date set

Brad Sander and Eric Reed, the two adventure paraglider pilots arrested in India, will face a local court on Saturday 19 March.

US paraglider pilots Brad Sander and Eric Reed have been arrested in Sikkim, India, after flying in from Nepal without permits.

Following a number of incidents, the future of paragliding at Roquebrune in Monaco is looking shaky.

The video of last August’s Azores Flying festival is just finished, so sit back, and enjoy some summer island fun.

French company Razeebuss had their Razmott 130 electric paramotor exposed to millions on 29 December, when it appeared on channel TF1′s Ushuaïa nature documentary, in a program on the wildlife of the Mozambique channel.

Martin Gwosdz, an acro pilot from Bavaria, Germany, suffered a fatal accident on Saturday 18 December.

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.

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.

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

Pal Takats has invented a new paragliding acro manoeuvre, the Esfera, which means sphere in Spanish.

Michael Pohl and 18-year-old Christoph Bessei, were awarded iPod Touches from Austrian paraglider manufacturer Nova, who named them ‘Pilots of the Year’.

Australian brothers Daniel and Nick Pierce climbed 5,800 m Mt Misti in Peru, and speedflew back down again on their Gin speed wings – in four minutes.

A film of the spectacular, new-format Parabatix paramotor Sky Races event is in the making, and we have the official trailer here.

Paragliding in India has been banned until 20 October 2010, dealing another blow to the sport in the country…

Swiss paragliding acro champion Yves Berlowitz and his Lucky Clowns acro partner Remo Niederer have set a new world record for 121 synchro infinity tumbles.

Users of UK’s uncontrolled Class G airspace, which includes hang glider and paraglider pilots, are asked to take 10 – 15 minutes to complete a pilot survey for the Airspace & Safety Initiative (ASI).

Pål Hammar Rognøy D-bags from his own paraglider above the Swedish ski resort of Åre.