News

Russell Ogden has joined the team! He is working with Dav & Jerome on the Design & Test Team. Russ is not just a talented pilot, instructor, school owner and a top competition pilot, he's also a bit of a

Design Department

Design has been going very well this past year thanks to Dav. Dav has always been very involved in design, almost since his first day with us. Dav has a very analytical mind and over the past year he has

Bob and Marcus back from India

Bob Drury and Marcus King have returned from their trip to India with some exciting tales, mainly involving riding Enfields and Delhi traffic. Bob along with Ulric Jessop returned to Kaylong for some full on Himalayan flying. He took along

Herminio Cordido Takes First place at the Red Bull Uribante Acro Competition!

Congratulations to Herminio for his first place finish on the Ozone 69 Freestyle wing! We are very excited to have Herminio on the Ozone team- he has already completed some amazingly well documented adventures in the Never Ending Thermal, and

Tops Without Borders - Tandems for Paraplegics

On Oct. 5th, Ozone Team Pilot Ralf Reiter and friends gave tandem flights to paraplegic passengers in Austria. The disabled passengers were taking part in an adventure week for paraplegics called `Tops Without Borders`. Besides Paragliding they also experienced White

Antoine goes flying

Antoine, our wonder boy is unfortunately leaving us to fly more! He is still going to be very involved with us as he is now our main sponsored pilot and we hope that he will be around at all the

Bob Drury plays Mother Goose!

Bob has been working on a BBC wildlife documentary with some feathered friends - bar-headed Geese. The plan is to film the migration of these wild birds from the plains of Tibet. First he had to rear the geese so

Mike Cav`s Big Weekend!

I'm not sure where the summer went this year, my air-time has taken a bit of a dive recently. However a few weeks ago I escaped the office, to try the new Geo! Dav & the team had been making

Acro in the Andes

Herminio Cordido our team pilot is going to ACROANDES, the acro comp in Argentina! We wish him good luck and good fun there with his 69! We also wish the organisers of this new comp the best of luck for

Marcus parted from computer!

We`ve torn Marcus away from his computer and sent him to the Himalayas as well, travelling-light with the new Geo! He emailed from Delhi to boast that his bag was 10k lighter than Bobs and is now heading to Bir

Thanks for your views!

16 October 2004

Thanks to all of you who submitted your views through the Pilot's Questionnaire over the past week. We have been amazed at the huge response and have started to analyse the results. Your FREE goodies will be on their way

Big thanks to Mike Kng

11 October 2004

We`ve just heard some sad news from Mike K�ng, due to his work as a DHV Test Pilot he will no longer be able to fly the glider of his choice. Mike has chosen to fly Ozone for the past

208 km on a Vibe!

05 October 2004

On the 25th of July, Jean Yves Figon, living in Volvic in Auvergne) took off at Puy de la Tache in the Massif du Sancy and flew to Rogues in le Gard a distance of 208 km on his DHV

St Hilaire 2004

19 September 2004

Well what a weekend! We`ve just got back from St Hilaire where we had a very busy time not to mention some great partying. There was lots of interest in Ozone and our new gliders that we previewed at the

New Ozone T-Shirts

We are releasing a new clothing range for 2005 with 6 designs of T-Shirts including a girls `T`, there is also the choice of long or short sleeve. They will be available through Ozone dealers soon, but we will be

El Yelmo Festival Spain

In July I was at the El Yelmo festival with Angel our Spanish distributor. It was a great celebration of everything paragliding, with a superb site with fantastic evening conditions! On Saturday it was simply amazing, I think there were

Birdwing Fly-In Event

Jerome, my girlfriend and photographer Melanie and myself recently attended the Birdwing Fly-In organised by Hans Nagli and his team at Meringen in Switzerland. The site is enormous and with 1600m of height to play with, you can imagine how

SixtyNine

As reported in the last news the SixtyNine has been load tested to a massive 15G. The SixtyNine (Factory Version) has been designed for pilots who specialise in the sport of acro at a very high level and will continue

People changes at Ozone

Sam Lowe, who joined Ozone over a year ago has now taken on the role of Paragliding Manager. As Ozone has grown it has become apparent that we need someone like Sam dedicated to ensuring that the needs of ozone

Antoine French Champion

I`m pretty proud to be able to tell you that despite not having flown my hang glider a lot this summer I managed to win the French Hang Gliding Championship for the third time! Thanks to my Moyes Litespeed S

Judy breaks UK Women's distance record

News from the UK; Judy Leden has broken her own UK woman's record with a 125km flight from Bradwell Edge aboard her Vulcan small. She said at last year's XC league prize giving that she was back and now she

Toni flies 135km on his Vibe

Over in Slovenia Toni Pljakoski had a great day out when he managed to fly 135 km out and return. You can see his flight here in the online Contest.

Rachel Evans' Mojo Works!

Rachel Evans from Allez-up in Laragne has been out proving that DHV1s can go the distance. On Monday 19th August she managed to fly from Laragne Chabre take off to near Grenoble on her brand new Mojo, a distance of

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