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...
Florida Bill Intends to Strengthen Parasailing Safety
During the summer months the beaches in Florida are lined with adventure seeking tourist looking for a bird's eye view from a parasail. Little do they know that their adventure is widely unregulated in Florida...
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...
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...
Paracommuting – Powered Paragliding to Work
All across the globe, whenever the sun comes up, you will find workers dreading the arduous trek that awaits them - the morning commute. But one paragliding enthusiast has made powered paragliding news by...
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...
Paragliding Get A Ways for the Month of November
The month of November has many paragliding events that are taking place south of the border. These are great opportunity for those looking to fly a while longer while the weather is getting cooler.
Chile...
GoPro Survives 12,500 Foot Fall
Skydiver Lucas Damn’s helmet-cam made skydiving news when it was knocked out of its casing as he jumped out of the plane in a recent dive. The camera survived the 12,500 foot fall and...
Coupe Icare 2012
If you happen to be in France right now, you're in for a treat. The Coupe Icare has been the most anticipated air sports event since 1974. Held against the backdrop of the breath-taking...
Wings of Kilimanjaro
It is a spiritual journey for some, a personal challenge for all. Created by the violence of volcanic eruption it dominates the landscape of East Africa. It beckons to those adventurous souls who would...
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...
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...
2011 Paragliding Nationals – Hearn
The second half of the US Paragliding Nationals was held between August 14 and August 21, 2008.
After the first half of the national competition at Red Rock, Dean Stratton had a narrow lead of...
2011 Paragliding Red Rock Nationals
The first half of the 2011 U.S. Paragliding National Championship was held between July 24th and July 30th in Richfield, Utah.
Dean Stratton took top honors with Eric Reed and Hayden Glatte placing in 2nd...
2011 Paragliding World Championship Cancelled
The 2011 Paragliding World Championship was cancelled after safety concerns.
Two competition pilots crashed and died on the first day of the competition in separate incidents. On that same day there were three other reserve deployments....
Paragliding off Everest
When Babu Sunuwar climbed Mt Everest on May 21st, 2011, he did not do it for the view, although when he reached the summit he probably did enjoy the view that less than 2500...
Paragliding National Championship Sun Valley
Jack Brown out of Anchorage Alaska has taken the 2010 US Paragliding National Championship.
With bad weather including wind, hail, rotor, and locust, only two tasks were flown at Sun Valley, Idaho.
Sun Valley was the...
Chelan XC Open, 2010
The first half of the US Nationals Paragliding Championship, The Chelan XC Open, was held from July 10th to July 15 at the Chelan Butte in Washington state.
Chelan Butte is well known for its majestic mountain launch...
2010 East Coast Paragliding Championship
The East Coast Paragliding Championship was held from May 2-8, 2010 at the Florida Ridge Hang Gliding Park.
The competition is a flatland cross county, race-to-goal competition. Prize money consists of $500 distributed among the...
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...
