In May 2022, Pierre Carter plans to climb and hopefully summit Mount Everest, with high hopes to fly from the top. With his 7Summits7Flights project the South-African intends to climb and fly from the highest summit on every continent. Two are missing, Everest and Mount Vinson in Antarctica. His team is about to leave the town on Namche Bazaar in…

Recently, Acro World Cup overall winner Theo de Blic has been flying his tricks with a NOVA GLITCH. which measures only 9.5 m² flat. It is probably the smallest acro glider in the world at the moment. Theo describes it in a YouTube-video as the most radical glider he has ever flown. Because of the high wing load, everything happens much faster. In…

The German NOVA Flatlands Team has been around for a while now. Between Hamburg and the Bavarian Forest, the Black Forest and Altes Lager in eastern Germany, the pilots try to munch as many miles as they can, cruising over really flat land and the lower mountain ranges. Team Captain Thoralf Hase reviews the past season:

"In order to travel more sustainably, we left our car at home. So, we hitchhiked through Romania for a month. With a budget of less than five euros a day, we managed very well." On their trip, Jamila and Florian Bernauer forgo luxury, camp many nights in the outdoors, want to explore the country from the air and get to know the local paragliding…

As in the previous year, the NOVA Climb & Fly Team did not miss the opportunity to hold a joint team meeting. Despite the pandemic, it was possible to spend a wonderful weekend at the Volkzeiner mountain hut in East Tyrol in a responsible manner and with a lot of distance from civilisation (in the truest sense of the word). The CFT local legends…

As Sissi Eisl will be going on maternity leave at the end of November 2021, in recent months NOVA has been seeking a suitable replacement for the role of Managing Director. With Niki Kurcz (33), co-owner and currently Production Manager, NOVA has succeeded in finding a replacement from within its own ranks!

NOVA and Nicola "Nick" Donini announce the start of a long-term cooperation. The 25-year-old took part in the Red Bull X-Alps last summer on a NOVA XENON - so both partners know each other well and appreciate each other. In future, the Italian will act as a brand ambassador for NOVA, will fly NOVA gliders in the cross-country online leagues, as…

At the annual Pilots Team Meeting, NOVA once again awarded pilots who have rendered outstanding achievements to the Austrian brand. The two Germans Andi Ziegler and Markus Kaup as well as Hans Tockner from Styria were honoured as “Pilots of the Year 2021”. Manuel Ploner from East Tyrol received the "Newcomer of the Year" Award. The selection of the…

At the Red Bull Dolomitenmann 2021, the NOVA BANTAM dominated the field of participants and the result lists. Chrigel Maurer and Aaron Durogati took first and second place in the paragliding ranking. A total of 34 out of 98 pilots started with a BANTAM, and no less than eight BANTAM pilots were among the top ten.