World champion, Ramon Morillas, has beaten 3 possible records in 1 flight (altitude; time to climb to 3,000 m; time to climb to 6,000 m). Morillas has always had great paramotoring ambitions, and the three high altitude flights he carried out during the last week of August and first days of September also served as [...]
The “Cercal Raide ” is a 200km paramotor run, organised by the school at Santiago do Cacem, Portugal. A crowd of paramotorists gather to fly together, starting at Cercal, and then heading south before following the Portuguese coast north to finish 200 km away, at Santo Andre. it is not a competition, but a gathering [...]
After the worst British summer weather on record, pilots of the Tip to Tip team finally landed at John O’Groats, Scotland at 11.07 on 13 August 2008. After taking off at Land’s End, Cornwall, on 29 July, the planned 8 day flight was dogged by gales, rain and thunderstorms, sometimes lasting up to three days!
Paul Haxby has bcreated a video introduction to the guided paramotor holidays he runs in North Wales. It is available on YouTube. www.axbsports.com Discuss here
Motocomm have created a new helmet camera kit, designed for motorsports use and endorsed by Chris Walker, that they say is set to revolutionise in-flight recording in the UK. The DSR-1003G kit comes in a carry case containing everything you could possibly need to mount the bullet camera to enable it to record extremely stable [...]
Jean Francois Guilbaud is organising a paramotor tour of America, from Saturday 20 September to 4 October, though dates may be moveable if the weather doesn’t play ball! He plans to cover 2900 km, taking in Salt Lake City, Grand Teton, Yellowstone, ( Rocky mountains), Little Bighorn, Rapid City, Mount Rhusmore (heads of the presidents), [...]
PXP are proud to announce their double win in the European Championships this year: Juanjo Garcia won the 4 stroke PF1 (foot launch) category, and Alfonso Lopez took first place in the 4 stroke PL1 (trike launch) category with their PXP 1450 engines. www.pxp.es Discuss here
