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Paul Nagl is our Head of the service department. With his girlfriend Julie, he is currently taking a sabbatical and making his dream of a really big trip come true. The two have a paraglider and climbing gear in their luggage with the plan to use both as often as possible. In Part 1 Paul reports about their experiences in Colorado and Utah.
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Pierre Rosén is our distribution partner in Sweden – and a pretty unusual character. When Team Pilot Vera Polaschegg visited him last time, they had an interesting chat, talking about flying in Sweden, paragliding in general, the old and the new XENON (he flew both) and what he does in winter.
At noon on 15 May 2022, South African Pierre Carter paraglided from South Col (7.950 metres) on Mount Everest and landed near the settlement of Gorak Shep. The 56-year-old adventurer is the first paraglider pilot to take off from Everest with permission from the Nepalese authorities. So far, only three teams have been able to fly from Mount…
Long-awaited and postponed again and again due to Corona - eventually it finally worked out: the NOVA Flatland Team (NFT) met in Siegritz (Frankonia) at the beginning of May to winch-tow and celebrate together! Ralf Böhm reports on an extraordinary weekend with lots of flying, laughter, barley juice and more...
Austrian Helmut “Heli” Schrempf was one of the athletes invited to the inaugural UAE Hike & Fly Championships in the United Arab Emirates. An event that produced stunning images, had extensive budgets and generated a lot of discussion. Heli, an experienced instructor, SIV trainer and participant in many hike & fly races, took our XENON to the start…
In May 2022, Pierre Carter plans to climb and hopefully summit Mount Everest, with high hopes to fly from the top. With his 7Summits7Flights project the South-African intends to climb and fly from the highest summit on every continent. Two are missing, Everest and Mount Vinson in Antarctica. His team is about to leave the town on Namche Bazaar in…
On the 24th of March 2022, Swiss pilot Toni Brügger flew a 213.97 km FAI triangle in Ticino aboard a NOVA AONIC, a high-end EN A wing. He launched from Mornera, was in the air for 9 hours 10 minutes and achieved an average speed of 23.68 km/h. This means he not only had the furthest flight on the day from Mornera, but he also flew the fastest mean…
Recently, Acro World Cup overall winner Theo de Blic has been flying his tricks with a NOVA GLITCH. which measures only 9.5 m² flat. It is probably the smallest acro glider in the world at the moment. Theo describes it in a YouTube-video as the most radical glider he has ever flown. Because of the high wing load, everything happens much faster. In…
The German NOVA Flatlands Team has been around for a while now. Between Hamburg and the Bavarian Forest, the Black Forest and Altes Lager in eastern Germany, the pilots try to munch as many miles as they can, cruising over really flat land and the lower mountain ranges. Team Captain Thoralf Hase reviews the past season:
"In order to travel more sustainably, we left our car at home. So, we hitchhiked through Romania for a month. With a budget of less than five euros a day, we managed very well." On their trip, Jamila and Florian Bernauer forgo luxury, camp many nights in the outdoors, want to explore the country from the air and get to know the local paragliding…