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12.12.2006
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426km mit dem Schirm
De Aar, South Africa
8 December 2006
3 Paragliding World Records broken in one epic flying day. Thursday the 7th of December 2006 was a memorable day in De Aar, South Africa as it saw 3 of the paragliding world records FAI confirmation pending broken in one day.
The longest individual open distance in the world : 426 km
The longest declared goal : 368 km
The new world distance on a tandem : 356km.
All the pilots spent over 7 hours in the air. The Slovenian born Valic brothers travelled to South Africa in the middle of November with the specific goal to achieve a world record in terms of a declared goal. Despite tough and very strong conditions, and after spending 6 and half hours in the air, both brothers made the declared goal, and had enough height and time to continue to fly further, eventually landing within 300 meters of each other, setting a new world record aswell of 426km! The two brothers flew at over 5200 meters above sea level. Two British pilots, Richard Westgate and Phil Bibby also travelled to South Africa to set a new tandem record. Their flight saw them not only achieve a new world open distance record at 356kms, but also beating the longest tandem flight to date in South Africa previously 223km as well as the longest UK flight, previously held for ten years at 285km by a female pilot! pending FAI approval
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