Advance paragliders in the West Country

Serving the Avon and Wessex clubs primarily, but also further afield too…

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.

Tim Pentreath

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