Press release and images for new paragliding and hang gliding book: Classic Routes

Want to learn to hang glide or paraglider in the UK? Here’s where to go. From the north of the country southwards. SCOTLAND Flying Fever PG / Hill Based on the Isle of Arran, Scotland. Trains ab-initio, cross country and SIV courses abroad in Nepal, France, Bulgaria with holidays to Outer Mongolia. Zabdi V Keen [...]

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

Sponsored by Gradient, the XC Africa Open paragliding competition will take place at De Aar, South Africa, from 27 November to 4 December 2010.

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

Cross Country magazine has been at the forefront of writing about, photographing and reporting on hang gliding and paragliding around the world for more than 20 years. We love flying as much as you do. Doing it doesn’t come cheaply – writers, photographers and film makers have to make a living like everyone – and [...]

Apco have launched a new version of their classic trainer: The Prima IV now replaces the Prima III, and has been designed for both free flight and paramotor training. Apco say that in comparison to the first Primas it is much better performing, safer and lighter with nicer handling. The only aspect which has remained [...]

The new GoPro helmet-mounted video camera, the Hero 5, is now available and in stock at www.xcshop.com. The new Hero 5 sports a new 5MP sensor, improved low light performance, faster “Photo every 2 seconds” mode, and mega-wide 170 degree lens. Its quick-release mount enables it to be easily attached to any helmet, bike, board [...]

The Acroaria team are very pleased to have been assigned the task of running the second FAI World Aerobatic Championships in Omegna, Italy from 6 -15 August 2010. Acroaria ’09 (9 – 16 August) will serve as a pre-event. Despite their 8 years’ experience of running acro comps, the team are still keen for any [...]

Extreme sport and travel film-maker, Peter Chrzanowski, (“Heart of the World”, issue 118) is doing a guided trip to the Sierra Nevada De Santa Marta in North East Colombia that the article documented. The area is inhabited by indians that live like they did 2,000 years ago, and is graced with some of the most [...]

The 2008 World Women’s and Rigid Hang Gliding championships took place in Sigillo, Italy, from 19 July to 2 August. Three events were run side by side, with the Women’s World (Class 1) championships flying different tasks from the small numbers of Class 2 and bigger field of Class 5 pilots, who flew the same [...]

Version 61.0 of the firmware for the Leonardo is now available for download from Digifly’s website, www.digifly.com. The new software improves the vario responsiveness and the GPS sensitivity, making recording of turnpoints virtually instantaneous.

Pierandea Patrucco has done it! Flying solo with minimal ground support he left Monaco on June 19th and successfully traversed the entire Alpine chain during the worst Alpine summer for 40 years, landing at the Adriatic sea on July 15th. The project was a true vol-bivouac, using the principles of French “Vagabond of the Sky”, [...]

On Saturday 21st June a collection of vintage hang gliders, collected by Gery de Clerck and donated to the French free flight association, was set up in the landing field of Laragne Monteglin, France. The following image is an extract from a panorama taken by Ali Gali, courtesy of Davis Straub’s Oz Report.

The El Yelmo International Air Festival (FIA) will be back on July 3 – 6 at the foot of El Yelmo mountain in the Sierra of Segura, Jaen province, Andalusia

Chrigel Maurer has set a new world record for Infinite Tumble

In the 1930s the Jungfrau-Stafette created a sensation in Switzerland. Revived last year for the first time, the 21st century version is just as amazing

Certification of all sizes of Mac’s Magus XC is now complete, and it is said to fall in the middle of the LTF 2-3 category

Jorge Atramiz and Herminio Cordido have come together again to work on a new short film.