Mexican pilot Fernando Iriarte Woodside is making last minute preparations for an attempt to break Ramon Morillas’ World Record for distance which stands at 1106 km. Iriarte is the current holder of the Mexican record with an 11 and half hour flight in which he flew 622 km. After taking the Mexican record his sponsors [...]
Our associate editor, Michel Carnet, is now in China and will be bringing back all the news, results and behind the scenes gossip from the event on a daily basis. Click here to read his reports and discuss here.
For those of you that may have had any problems with the buckles slipping on the Paramania trimmers and not gripping well enough (2005 or 2006 production), Paramania have manufactured new stronger springs to replace the old ones with. The new springs are available free of charge from your Paramania dealer or by going to [...]
Jim Carolan has resigned as chairman of the fledgeling British Paramotoring Association. He took the opportunity to thank those that supported him but felt that the association needed a younger, more dynamic person to take it forward. www.bpmaonline.org.uk Discuss here
Kim Young Min owner of Korean paramotor manufacturer N-Zin wing was tragically killed during a speed race in Thailand. Initial reports suggest that his brake handle was sucked into the prop causing his wing to enter an unrecoverable spiral. Discuss here
Marcus King is the new Editor of Paramotor Magazine. Marcus has been the designer and news editor for Paramotor Magazine since Issue 1, and art director at Cross Country since 2005. Marcus has been paragliding since 1991, and just recently got into paramotoring, completing his BMAA course in July. He’s relishing his new role. After [...]
The UK Air Accident Investigation Board have released an initial report into the recent paramotoring accident in which highly respected pilot Kevin Rymer-Craig was tragically killed. The report concludes that the accident was a result of mechanical failure of part of the attachment system of the paramotor unit. The report goes on to recommend that [...]
Southern Skies are pleased to announce that their new PPG wing the NaJa (pronounced Naadjaa) has successfully passed the DULV flight-tests in three sizes. The name is latin for Cobra and the Southern Skies team say that the wing like the snake is very fast and agile but easy to launch. They also say that [...]
Ramon Morillas is selling the paramotor and wing he used to cross the Atlantic in 2007.
Two paramotors, one mountain and half a million dollars! Bob Drury goes behind the scenes of the GKN Mission Everest expedition
