Archive for March, 2010

Low Level Paramotor Flying In Virginia Beach

Posted: 24th March 2010 by Jeff in Extreme News, flying videos
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Pilot Jeff Toll from Virginia Beach sent this cool flying video in to us the other day. Jeff flies a flat top 160 and a Sky Cima k2. Feel free to send us any of your favorite powered paragliding videos, we would be happy to post them up!

Bill Heaner World Record Paragliding Attempt

Posted: 15th March 2010 by Jeff in Events, Extreme News, flying videos
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On March 19, 2010 – World Class Paragliding Pilot Bill Heaner is going to attempt a world record. Bill is planning to launch his paraglider from a balloon and then come back and land in the same balloon basket he took off from. He will launch from 7,000 feet and then come back towards the [...]

Jon Black’s Beach Blast 2010

Posted: 14th March 2010 by Jeff in Events, Extreme News, flying videos
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The second annual Beach Blast in Panama City Beach, Florida is right around the corner.   The organizer John Black put on quite a show last year attracting over 300 pilots and thousands of spectators. This year he is expecting double that. People are coming from all around the world to Beach Blast 2010. The location is [...]

U-Turn Paragliders New High Speed Glider?

Posted: 12th March 2010 by Jeff in Extreme News, New Products
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American Paramotor Company U-Turn USA has teamed up with one of their wing partners U-Turn Paragliders (http://u-turn.de) to bring the paramotor industry the fastest wing on the market.  Now were not talking about +3-5 mph here.  We are talking 30+ mph over the existing competition.  U-Turn Paragliders is claiming that this wing will top out [...]

PPG Moron Ruins Another Wing

Posted: 11th March 2010 by Jeff in Accidents, Extreme News, flying videos
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In this episide of PPG For Morons, funny man Paul Anthem destroys yet another paraglider at the 2010 Salton Sea Fly In. From Video Description: Comedy series. Every friendly pilots nightmare– A powered paraglider pilot borrows a wing and has an accident with it. But don’t worry, he can fix anything….. sort of. Video info: [...]

Add High Hang Points, Torque, and an Inexperienced Pilot and What Do You Get?

Posted: 11th March 2010 by Jeff in Accidents, Extreme News, flying videos, Training
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-Riser Twist from hell that sends you into a plummeting departure from the sky back down to earth. Now this was mostly caused because the pilot was inexperienced. It’s not necessarily the fault of the equipment. That being said, the gentleman’s equipment in the video definitely didn’t help him in this situation. If this pilot [...]

Redbull Airforce Pilot Othar Lawrence Rocks!

Posted: 10th March 2010 by Jeff in Extreme News, flying videos
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In these two videos Redbull Airforce team pilot Othar Lawrence tears it up in the Grand Cayman Islands. What an awesome job to have. Doesn’t get much better than that. Othar’s equipment of choice is a Gin Boomerang and a Flat top 200 Super.

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