Paragliding World Record Set In Brazil
Brazil is having a good year for world records. Just a little less than a month after Marcelo Prieto, Donizete Lemos, and Frank Brown set a new paragliding world record for their 513km flight in...
2014 US Paragliding Nationals
US Paragliding Nationals are on the horizon for 2014. White Owl Paragliding will be hosting the US Paragliding Nationals in Chelan, WA. The official dates have been posted, kicking it off with pilot registration...
WingmanCam – A Different Perspective
Nothing enhances the thrill of a flight outing quite like recording yourself on video camera. What better way to share your adventures with the rest of the world? Filming one's own self is difficult for paragliding and...
Beach Blast Cancelled Due to Government Restrictions
April brings disappointing powered paragliding news: Beach Blast, an annual powered paragliding (PPG) event at the Edgewater Resort in Panama City, FL, has been cancelled. Beach Blast was the largest PPG event in the...
Red Bull X-Alps 2017
WINNERS OF THE 2017 RED BULL X-Alps RACE
1st - Christian Maurer (10 days 23 hours)
2nd - Benoit Outters (11 days 1 hour)
3rd - Paul Guschlbauer (5km from goal)
Red Bull X-Alps is a biannual race...
Foundation For Free Flight
The Foundation for Free Flight is an organization that helps promote and conserve the free flight sporting industry in America. The organization was originally founded in 1987 to help support teams competing in hang...
USHPA Insurance
As of March 1, 2016, the United States Hang Gliding and Paragliding Association (USHPA) is losing its standard insurance coverage due to unaffordable premiums.
According to experts from USHPA, there are several factors that are driving premiums...
HD Video Helmet Camera Review
Be it hang gliding, paragliding, skydiving or ultralighting we all wish we had a video camera to shoot those memorable flying moments. With the spring flying season well underway, we are offering some assistance...
New Women’s Paragliding Record
It has been just a little over three years since Kamira Pereira flew 324.7km (about 201 miles) and set a women's world record for paragliding. On November 20, Seiko Fukuoka slaughtered that record as...
Meet the Women in US Paragliding Nationals
Paragliding isn't just a man's sport, although according to paragliding statistics, men outnumber the women 85/15. Most instructors agree that paragliding is really more about technique than strength, so the ladies could easily do...
2009 United States Paragliding Nationals – Utah
Part two of the United States Paragliding Nationals was held in Salt Lake City Utah at the Point of the Mountain Flight Park. Event organizers scheduled seven competition days between August 16-22.
This is the...
2009 World Air Games
The United States sent 17 competitors to the World Air Games between June 6th and June 14th 2009. This event is the premier event of for air sports enthusiasts boasting 10 disciplines, 27 competitions, and 3 venues...
First Female Afghan Paraglider
Say Hello to Afghanistan's First Female Paraglider
It's not every day that a mother and resident of Afghanistan, a country not historically known for its female athletes, is hopeful to attend international paragliding events. But...
Paragliding World Record, Meet Nick Greece
A few weeks ago, Nate Scales was still receiving handshakes and congratulations from fans for his paragliding world record-breaking flight of 319km over the northern Rockies when that record was broken by another paragliding...
Police S.O.A.R. to Catch a Thief
Palm Bay Police in central Florida are using a new technology to catch a thief. The Search Operation Aerial Response team (S.O.A.R) will use powered paragliders in their day to day operations to conduct...
New USA Paragliding Record
On June 30, 2012, in Sun Valley, Idaho, Matt Beechinor set a new paragliding record for the United States. Little did he know, Nate Scales would be coming on the scene, to the same...
Top World Records Countdown of 2012
The summer of 2012 was marked by any number of hang gliding, paragliding and skydiving world record records; in fact, some records that have held their ground for decades were shattered. Let's take a...
2009 West Coast Paragliding Championship
The West Coast Paragliding Championship took place between May 31 - June 6th, 2009 at Woodrat Mountain in Ruch, Oregon. With 3 of the 7 tasks cancelled for bad weather, there was almost as...
Icarus Trophy 2015
In recent paramotor news, the first ever long-distance paramotor adventure race has come to an end. Paramotor pilots from the around the world had a chance to compete in the first Icarus Trophy.
The Icarus...
Paraglider Jumps from 23,000 Feet
Paraglider pilot attempts to set an infinite tumble record from 23,000 feet. The oxygen feed pilot is hoping for over a thousand tumbles that would have smashed the previous record but stopped short due...