British Records

Tom Payne has produced an excellent spreadsheet showing British Records. Now you just need to go and break a few!

More Records in Australia

Kari Roberson (Nova Mentor 2) flew 216.1km on 06/02 to set a new Australian Female Distance record only to be beaten by Meredyth Malocsay (Gradient XC3) with a flight of 257.8km the next day! Both flights were from Deniliquin.

Records, Records, Records

Once again, thanks to the Oz Report.


Maltahohe in Namibia has seen the rigid out and return record broken twice on the same day with 386km and 388km.

The Australian Distance Record has been broken by Sebastian Benz with an amazing 360.47 km
from Deniliquin in NSW, Australia.

Kerio View in Kenya has been showing its Record Breaking Out and Return potential.

Season summary so far

10 flights over 300km have already been flown this season.

The King of Big Distance flying is Brazilian, Marcelo PRIETO with 11 flights over 300km! (461,6km (Previous World Record), 414,7km, 402,0km, 371,0km, 364,7km, 348,4km, 348,0km, 340,4km, 340,2km, 320,0km, 302,0km)

Rafael SALADINI, BRA has flown 7 flights over 300km, Karel VEJCHODSKÝ CZE has now flown 6 and Olympio FAISSOL, BRA has flown 5.

21.11.2011 367.4km Rafal LUCKOS POL Ozone Mantra R11 Quixada, Brazil

04.12.2011 360.8km Karel VEJCHODSKÝ CZE Gradient Aspen 4 Riacho das Almas, Brazil

10.01.2012 359.5km Sebastian BENZ CHE Nova Triton Greenacres, Australia

03.11.2011 354.5km Josh DEGENAAR RSA Gradient Avax SR7 Copperton, South Afri

15.11.2011 336.7km Rafal LUCKOS POL Ozone Mantra R11 Quixada, Brazil

21.11.2011 319.0km Karel VEJCHODSKÝ CZE Gradient Aspen 4 Quixada, Brazil

29.11.2011 316.3km Karel VEJCHODSKÝ CZE Gradient Aspen 4 Patu, Brazil

14.11.2011 312.9km Martin BÜHLER LIE Ozone Mantra M4 Patu, Brazil

29.10.2011 311.5km Olympio FAISSOL BRA Ozone Mantra R10.2 Quixada, Brazil

26.10.2011 304.6km Olympio FAISSOL BRA Ozone Mantra R10.2 Quixada, Brazil

Texas Droughts

According to Dave Prentice it was too dry in Texas last year for Record flying with clouds disappearing inland. According to the Oz Report the drought is set to continue into next year.

Wow

Seeyou are working on a great new format. Thanks to the Oz Report for the link.

Matt Church leads the XC Contest!

Congratuations to Matt Church who now has 5 200km flights to his name and leads the XC Contest with 1356.2km.

Matt Church flies into the British Record Books

Congratulations to Matt Church who has been flying in Quixada at XCeara 2011. He has already flown 4 flights over 200km with a personal best of 277.7km, the fourth longest flight ever flown by a Brit! His total of 6 flights is 1126.8km already the highet score ever in the UK Intenational XC League. Not bad for a competition that has been running for 20 days!

7 Summits Team, great film

Great footage of the first of 7 summits, Kilimanjaro.

Longest flight of the year so far, Josh Degenaar

Congratulations to Josh for an amazing early season flight from Copperton in South Africa, 355km. He thinks that there was another 2 1/2 hours left in the day so the record was on! Even better, he did the flight on a Gradient SR7!

Olympio Faissol

The Brazilians are on fire once again with Olympio Faissol flying his first 300km flight of the new season on the 29/10.

2011 world record encampment

It looks like strange conditions aren't helping the World Record attempts in Texas.

Texas Record Encampment

The OZ Report indicates that the hang-gliders are waiting in Austin for conditions to improve in Zapata. The Ozone Record encampment has had to be cancelled at short notice but Steve Burns is still able to offer a tow service for anyone who wants to travel independently. Give me a call on 07974208076 to discuss.

Amazing flying in the Himilayas

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Gradient Montana 2011

The Montana for 2011 is now available. It is the light weight allrounder. Ondrej Dupal designed the wing to be universally suitable for the target group of Walk & Fly mountain pilots. With the XC-qualities of the Montana 2011 large distances are also possible (Martin Mueller, 180km FAI). Its agility shows, in addition, its qualities in the Freestyle range. Flight figures such as SATs, Helicopters and Loops can be conducted without deformation of the profile. The lightweight construction developed by gradient provides a good compromise between weight and stability, as well as aerodynamic behavior in extreme situations (e.g. tendency to shoot forwards). For travelling, the Montana 2011 easily fits into hand luggage. The new Montana 2011 has a new color Design and is available in sizes 22, 24, 26, 28, 30. The glider has received the certification EN/CLTA 1-2. Series production began in April. Contact us for a test flight.

World Record on the Bi Golden XC

Congratulations to Brett Janaway for setting a new Multiplace 100km Out and Return Record of 31.9kph.

British Records tumble.

In an incredible spell of weather in the UK, 14 British Records have been broken in the last month.


On 26th April, Richard Westgate (Gradient XC3) and Mike Cavanagh (Ozone Mantra M4) broke the UK (Local) Distance around a Triangular Course record with an epic 90km flight from Ben Toaig in Scotland. Mike completed the task in 4hrs 8mins and Richard in 4hrs 22mins. They will share the record. The flights score 338 points in the UK XC League, the highest individual scores ever recorded.

Gradient Acro Video

Gradient Freestyle Team

Superior from bernhard paraschach on Vimeo.

Amazing March Airmass

This has been the driest March in the UK on record with an amazing airmass giving great flying conditions in the north of the country for the last 2 weeks. The Winter XC League has been won by Phil Colbert with a record score of 406.9km, including a 125.3 km open distance flight on 18th March (the earliest ever 100km flights), and a triangle in the Lake District scoring 94.2km on 25th March. The excellent conditions migrated to the Alps with stunning early season flying on 29th and 30th March. Gerald Ameseder flew a 219.1km FAI Triangle on 30/03 from Hochstein in Austria and Paolo Manfrin flew a 174.3km FAI Triangle on 29/03 on his Aspen 3 from the Eggishorn in Switzerland.