Month: May 2010
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Omega 8 development report 4
In the final stages of the OMEGA 8’s development, the test team put the wing through its paces over Interlaken, Switzerland. On the way up to launch, chief test pilot Kari Eisenhut explains the different characters in the ADVANCE team: Chrigel Maurer, Greg Blondeau, Andi Aebi, Bruce Goldsmith and Thomas Ripplinger. Read more here.
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Escape from Snowdonia…
Saturday I spent last weekend up in Snowdonia with a dozen or so fellow pilots from the Avon Club. Most were staying for the whole week, but with my ten day trip to Slovenia for the British Open coming up soon there was no way I could do both. Nick picked me up at 6am […]
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Omega 8 development report 3
In 2009, Chrigel Maurer astonished the paragliding world by winning the Red Bull X-Alps in record time. He did it on a lightweight wing built to withstand the harshest turbulence. Hugh Miller asks Chrigel and designer Thomas Ripplinger if the special X-Alps glider and final Omega 8 are at all similar. Read more here.
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Omega 8 development report 2
In his second report, Hugh Miller catches up with Advance test pilot Andy Aebi, the current FAI World Paragliding Champion. Click here.
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Swanage or bust!
The Long Mynd was the place to be on Saturday 15th May (Wayne Seeley flew 170km on his Omega 7!), but coming a close second was Batcombe (aka Telegraph Hill) in Dorset. The sky was looking epic as Nick, Mike and I drove down from Bath, and when we arrived shortly after 11am it seemed […]
Advance paragliders in the West Country 