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Women’s Hang Gliding Festival 2008

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
XC

Lookout Mountain Flight Park, Tennessee, aims to foster the idea of women together in flight by hosting its first annual Women’s Hang Gliding Festival

Dean Stratton and Josh Cohn XC and competition clinics

Friday, April 11th, 2008
XC

2007 US Paragliding National Champion Dean Stratton and 2008 Pre-world gold medalist Josh Cohn will be holding a well rounded clinic in Santa Barbara, California

Tater Hill Open 2008

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
XC

July 27th to August 2nd this year are the dates for the Tater Hill Open in North Carolina (USA)

US airlines set to sting

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
XC

It’s about to get even harder to get your flying gear on an aeroplane! US airlines who, up until now, had been far more lenient with excess baggage charges than their European counterparts, are about to buckle up

Bob Drury tours USA with Himalayan paragliding show

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
Bob Drury flying deep in the Himalayan mountains

Bob Drury will be travelling up the west coast of the USA in mid to late April visiting clubs and schools

The 2005 Flytec Championships

Friday, July 15th, 2005

Until the eighth day, the 2005 Flytec Championships was a festival of fast racing and fun times, as Davis Straub reports

Flying in the USA: Grand Canyon Dreams

Monday, April 25th, 2005

Will Gadd embarks on the glide of his life as he paraglides across the awesome Grand Canyon…

Travel: Red Bull Air Force in Monument Valley

Thursday, March 18th, 2004
XC

Othar Lawrence leads the Red Bull Air Force Huckspedition across the border to paraglide, Base jump and fly Monument Valley

Out to dinner in Omak: A tandem adventure from Chelan Butte

Tuesday, November 5th, 2002
XC

‘Launch early if you want to go far,’ according to the Chelan cognoscente. ‘Early,’ in XC context, means noon-ish – if you wait much later than that, especially on a paraglider, you risk running out of daylight and lift.

Learning to paraglide: The education of a thermaleer

Friday, February 22nd, 2002
XC

Canada’s Pete Powell reflects on his long road of learning to fly and learns to paraglide at Point of the Mountain before heading Iquique in Chile for some serious thermalling

Kari Castle: I’ve got my record back!

Thursday, November 1st, 2001
XC

Kari Castle on flying the women’s hang gliding world record in Zapata, Texas USA

Classic Tales: Hang Gliding Horror in Owens Valley!

Monday, July 10th, 2000
XC

Paragliding and hang gliding can be dangerous, we all know and accept that. But, when you look deep in to the motives of most of us, it is that very danger that gives us the thrill and excitement that makes our sport so special to us

Hang gliding: 200 miles from Wallaby Ranch, USA

Thursday, June 15th, 2000
XC

Tiki Mashy tells the story of Davis Straub’s US East Coast record hang gliding flight, flown from Wallaby Ranch, Florida in 2000