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Ecuadorian pilot Juan Carlos Morán Reinoso has broken Ecuador’s Open Distance paraglider record with a flight of 85.8 km from Bototillo on 24 November.

Swiss paragliding acro champion Yves Berlowitz and his Lucky Clowns acro partner Remo Niederer set a new world record for 121 synchro infinite tumbles on 11 September 2010.

The pair D-bagged from a helicopter at 2,700 m (9,000 ft) above Linthebene, Switzerland.

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The trailer for the new 3D animated movie, ‘Rio’, has just been released. It features the blue macaw Blu’s first attempt at flight, mixing it with hang gliders swooping round the Christ statue and causing mayhem on the packed beach at Rio de Janeiro. As would be expected from 20th Century Fox, the team that created Ice Age and Robots, the film looks set to be fast, fun and pacy – shame we will all have to wait until April 2011 for its release.

Paragliding acro star and ground-handling afficionado Mike Kung’s ‘paraclimbing’ in wadi Rum, Jordan is being screened on the German television channel n.tv this week.

The show is part of the Take-Off TV programme, and will be broadcast on 3 May at 2:35, 4 May at 16.30 and 5 May at 1:00. From Saturday 7 May it will be available as a video on www.takeoff-tv.net

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British paraglider pilot Tom Payne stormed to the top of the British international XC league with an FAI triangle flight of 169.55 km, flown around the Chamonix – Annecy area of the French Alps on Wednesday 28 April 2010. The flight may also have earned him two UK records: UK National Distance around a triangular course – 169.55 km andUK National Speed over a triangular course of 150km – 7hrs 29mins 20.3 km/h.

Starting from les Grands Montets in Chamonix, his turnpoints were Les Dents D’Arclusaz and a point North of Parmelan (Annecy). Another British pilot, Jon Chambers, flew most of the triangle with Tom, but his left brake line snapped near the second turnpoint, forcing him to land early.

Tom describes his flight in detail on Paragliding Forum.

On the same day, there were seven 200+ km flights flown on paragliders in the Alps, the longest of which was French pilot Guy Parat’s 245.72 km triangle in the Grenoble area of France.

Swiss hang glider pilot Heinz Betschart topped the hang glider distances that day, with a 230.27 km FAI triangle flown in Switzerland on an Atos.

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