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

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

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

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

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

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

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

‘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.

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

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

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