Cross Country Magazine – In the Core since 1988

Cross Country Magazine – In the Core since 1988 episodes:

• 08.09.2014

  Podcast: Mark Watts on flying 275km for the UK PG record

  On 3 August 2014 Mark Watts broke the UK paragliding and hang gliding distance records, flying 275.5 km from Milk Hill, to Cromer, Norfolk. This podcast interview (click Play above) by Hugh Miller, one of Mark’s flying friends, was done...

  
• 09.23.2013

  Coupe Icare 2013 podcast: Clement Latour + Catherine Mouligne + Icaro + Valic Brothers

  The Coupe Icare saw great weather over the weekend as tens of thousands of pilots and spectators descended on the small mountain village of St Hilaire de Touvet in the French Alps for four days of flying fun. In this...

  
• 06.30.2013

  Rat Race 2013 podcast: Final glide finish + Laddie Shaw + Keiko Hiraki

  Last day at the Rat Race and the final podcast from Andy Pag is packed.

  
• 06.29.2013

  Rat Race 2013 podcast: Michael Sigel + Experts Q&A + Boom 9 + Kari Castle

  On the penultimate day of the Rat Race in Oregon, Andy Pag talks to Swiss pilot Michael Sigel about beating the Americans on their home turf and finds out all about the Boomerang 9. Plus Nick Greece, Josh Cohn, Marty...

  
• 06.28.2013

  Rat Race 2013 podcast: Jeff Farrell, Jeff Huey and Mike Haley

  The flying is on at the Rat Race and Michael Sigel is leading the pack. The latest podcast from Andy Pag at the competition in Oregon features Jeff Farrell interviewing Jeff Huey and Mike Haley.

  
• 06.27.2013

  Rat Race 2013 podcast: Rob Sporrer, Luis Rosenkjer, and Jeff Farrell on the USA’s favourite wings

  While parawaiting Andy Pag talks to Rob Sporrer, Luis Rosenkjer, and Jeff Farrell about the wings they import to the US and the pilots that fly them.

  
• 06.26.2013

  Rat Race 2013 podcast: Zen Ken, Andrew Berkly and Paul Murdoch (contains some swearing)

  Andy Pag uncovers an amazing story from the practice task, involving a farmer, a gun, a quad bike and a totally destroyed wing...

  
• 06.25.2013

  Rat Race 2013 Podcast: Jug Aggarwal and Jeff Farrell

  As cabin fever sets in Andy Pag speaks to Jug Aggarwal about the Nor-Cal XC League which brings pilots together one weekend a month to fly tasks he sets.

  
• 06.24.2013

  Rat Race 2013 podcast: US Team Selection Process + Boom 9

  Andy Pag talks to Jeff Huey about how to get selected for the US Team and Brett Hazlett reveals what he thinks of his new GIN Boomerang 9

  
• 06.24.2013

  Rat Race 2013 podcast: Practice Day and how to fly the site

  Andy Pag talks to local gurus Bill Belcourt and Hayden Glatte about how best to fly Woodrat Mountain on Day 0 of the Rat Race 2013 – the biggest paragliding comp in the USA

  
• 07.16.2010

  Paraglider first look: Escape S’Pace

  Escape’s S’Pace is reviewed in issue 130 of Cross Country magazine. Marcus King takes a tour of the glider before test-flying it. Also available on YouTube in full HD • Got news? Send it to us at [email protected]. Fair use...

  
• 04.05.2010

  Podcast: Thomas de Dorlodot interview

  Thomas de Dorlodot is one of paragliding and paramotoring’s brightest stars. Interviewed in February 2010 for Issue 18 of Cross Country Magazine’s sister publication Paramotor Magazine he reveals what it takes to do the Red Bull X-Alps, his newfound passion...

  
• 02.27.2010

  Podcast: Speed Riding Ama Dablam with Stuart Holmes

  Stuart Holmes climbed and flew his speed flying paraglider from Ama Dablam - a 6,812 m jewel in the Himalayan crown. Ed Ewing spoke to him at his home in England about the flight.

  
• 02.03.2010

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• 11.16.2009

  Podcast: Squash Falconer Flies from Mont Blanc

  British female mountaineer and paraglider pilot, Squash Falconer, recently achievement a long-time ambition to climb and fly from the top of Mt Blanc, Europe’s highest peak. Travelling from the UK to Chamonix by motorbike with the wing on her back,...

  
• 11.04.2009

  Podcast: Alun Hughes on flying with John Silvester in the Karakoram

  Adventure filmmaker Alun Hughes spent a month paragliding in the high mountains of Pakistan with flying legend John Silvester to produce his latest spectacular film, The Birdman of the Karakoram. Cross Country magazine gets the lowdown…

  
• 10.11.2009

  Kym Fielke wins Nova Photo and Video Competition 2009

  The winner of Nova’s Media Contest 2009 was announced at the Free Flight festival, Tegelberg, last weekend. Australian Kym Fielke’s image of a paraglider soaring cliffs in Myponga, South Australia, was voted the best of 474 photos that were submitted,...