Women’s World PG triangle record falls
Michaela Brandstätter of Austria has filed a claim with the FAI for the women’s World and European triangle distance record, with a 222.8km triangle from Grente Alm on 21 May 2016. Michaela’s flight...
View ArticlePascal Purin: 9,540m hike-and-fly in one day!
Pascal Purin, who is in training for the 2017 Red Bull X-Alps, had a mammoth hike-and-fly day on 18 June 2016, hiking up 9,540m and flying down again with his AirDesign UFO. This is believed to be a...
View ArticleHonorin Hamard flies record 306km FAI triangle
Current World Champion and Ozone team pilot Honorin Hamard flew a record 306km FAI triangle in the French Alps on 9 July 2016, on an Enzo 2. Honorin, who is currently leading XContest, started his...
View ArticleNew Zealand paragliding distance record broken
Bryan Moore broke the New Zealand paragliding cross country record on 7 December with a flight of 152.1km Bryan flew from Treble Cone with fellow pilot Pete Groves, the pair on matching Nova Mentor 3...
View ArticleTandem PG World Out-and-Return Distance Record falls in Kenya
Hunter Marrian of Paraglide Kenya has flown a 211km out-and-return flight on a tandem from Nyaru in Kenya’s Rift Valley on 29 January 2015, which if ratified could break two FAI World records. Hunter...
View ArticleTandem paramotor speed-to-3,000m record
Karen and Jason Skinner broke the paramotor tandem speed-to-climb-to-3000m record on 21 April 2015, making a height gain of 3,000m in 40 minutes. If ratified by the FAI, this beats Mick Roche and...
View ArticleGreen twins break tandem paramotor altitude record
Ant and Tim Green successfully flew tandem paramotors to over 5,000m above Mont Blanc, on 22 April 2015. If ratified by the FAI, they will have achieved a paramotor tandem altitude record. The two...
View ArticleWorld PG (tandem) record for triangle distance
Belgian pilot Laurent Faniel flew a 127.1km FAI triangle on his tandem Nervures Diamir ForTwo from Allevard, France, on 21 April 2015. The flight took 7 hours at an average speed of 18.5km/h, and is...
View ArticleBogdan Baziuk flies paraglider 437km in Ukraine
Ukrainian Bogdan Baziuk flew his paraglider 437km from north to south across his home country on 29 June 2015 – the longest paraglider flight in Europe, ever, as far as we are aware. Bogdan launched...
View ArticleKathleen Rigg – two Women’s World HG records
Kathleen Rigg (GB) flew a 200km triangle on her Moyes RX3.5 from Hochfelln in the Bavarian Alps on 1 July 2015, earning her two women’s world records if the claims are ratified. The flight details are...
View ArticleMont Blanc Paramotor tandem record
Twin brothers Anthony and Tim Green broke the altitude world record for tandem paramotoring in April, flying up to 5,066m above the summit of Mont Blanc on their Parajet / Vittorazi paramotors, running...
View Article200km triangles on EN-A paragliders
200km triangles have been flown twice in one week by pilots on EN-A paragliders – proof, if any was needed, that ‘beginner wing’ technology has come a long way. First to bag the prize was Swiss pilot...
View ArticleAlexander Robé flies 257km PG triangle
Austrian Alexander Robé flew a 257.2km triangle from Grente, Austria on 12 August – a world record paraglider triangle if the record is ratified. Alex flew an Ozone Mantra M6 and will take the record...
View ArticleKonrad Heilmann claims South American HG records
On 18 August 2015 Konrad Heilmann flew a 208km triangle from Jaragua, Goias (Brazil), on a Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5, breaking two South American records if his claim is ratified. Konrad, who owns Rio...
View ArticlePG tandem 25km triangle record
France’s Maxime Bellemin, with passenger Laurie Genovese, have filed a claim with the FAI for a World and European record for ‘Speed over a triangular course of 25km’. They flew a Sky Metis 3 from...
View Article363km tandem paraglider flight
On 26 October 2015, Frenchman Julien Irilli and his sister Emilie flew a Niviuk Bi Peak 3 tandem for 363km in Brazil. It’s a pending World record for ‘free distance using up to three turnpoints’, and...
View ArticleCharles Cazaux and Seiko Fukuoka fly 400km in Australia
French team paraglider pilots Charles Cazaux and Seiko Fukuoka flew over 400km from Jil Jil (Birchip) in Australia on 9 December 2015. The pair, who are both Ozone pilots, launched, flew and landed...
View ArticleCarl Wallbank: 275km UK HG goal record
Carl Wallbank flew 275km to set a new UK hang gliding declared goal record on 23 April 2016. The flight has also been submitted to the FAI as European Declared Goal record. The flight, from Llangollen...
View ArticleFrench PG record: Martin Morlet flies 411km
On 1 May 2016, Martin Morlet flew his Enzo 2 across a 411km swathe of France, from Rouen to Limoges. This is currently the longest paraglider flight in France, and if approved by the FFVL will take the...
View Article122km on a tandem paraglider in Finland
Finnish pilot Hermanni Keinänen has filed a claim with the FAI for a 121.9km tandem ‘straight distance to a declared goal’ European record. He and passenger Tero Tikkanen, flew a GIN Fuse 41 from...
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