There is growing excitement about the coming flying season. This year you can again experience a number of thrilling events with NOVA - guaranteed to have something for every pilot. Put the dates in your diary because you will find a summary of the event highlights for 2020 below. Let’s all keep our fingers crossed for good weather.

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At the end of 2019, Théo de Blic announced that he would split from his previous partner Gradient. Since then, the paragliding community has been speculating where the three-time Acro Paragliding World Cup Champion (2015 – synchro, 2017 & 2019) and three-time Acro Game Champion would move. Now, he has let the cat out of the bag  - from now on Théo...

30 years of NOVA meets another milestone… the new NOVA magazine “AIRTIME” is published for the first time in 01/2020. Everyone who joins us at the Thermik fair in Stuttgart on the 18th of January will be welcome to get their personal copy in German or English.

Every year, as soon as the cross-country flying season is over and the life of an XC addict is more relaxed again, the annual meeting of the NOVA Pilots Team takes place. This time on the Köckenhof, a cosy mountain farm in the Alpbach Valley. Eighty team pilots and NOVA staff from all over the world were invited. The reunion was reason to...

Das eigene Auto blieb zu Hause stehen um die Natur zu schützen. So ging es dreieinhalb Monate per Anhalter durch Skandinavien. Mit einem Budget von 300 Euro pro Person war es nicht immer einfach - aber möglich.

Unser Freund und Kollege Manuel ist im Alter von nur 37 Jahren nach langer Krankheit verstorben. Vergessen werden wir ihn nie.

Today we have very important news: we would like to present our new wing design. We wanted to follow our philosophy of a clear design style, but at the same time create a striking appearance that can also be seen from a distance and makes the glider seem more elongated. Model by model, this new design will feature on all future NOVA paragliders.

Since my beginnings in paragliding, I always have been fascinated by some pilots of my club telling stories about landing on the summit of Mont Blanc in 2012. I was wondering what kind of experience it would be and if I would be up to the task one day.

High cloud base, not much wind and strong thermals - the 2nd of June was a really epic day! NOVA pilots flew a total of 22 FAI triangles over 200 km. And one outstanding feat: the new tandem world record of Stefan and Uli Lauth - a 232 km FAI triangle on a BION 2.

The magazine Thermik has tested the MENTOR 6 in their issue 5/19. The editors are confirming exactly what we communicate about the XC-potential of this wing. Read the summary and the short assessment here.

As well as the applied innovations like Zig-Zag 3D-Shaping, the Mini-Rib Vector Tape, Double-B splits and the newly designed risers, on the MENTOR 6 the angle of attack of the outer wing also plays a significant role in terms of performance. Practical insights for flight practice can be derived from the directly related characteristics of the...

Terfens, 1st April 2019 – NOVA introduces a revolutionary innovation in paragliding: a microprocessor-controlled pilot assistance system, which is permanently installed in the glider and in future it will enable the networking of individual wings via the fast G5 mobile phone network.

For the MENTOR 6 we developed a number of performance-enhancing innovations. This is also true for the risers. It has a differentiated A3 riser transmission, as well as a optimised Speedbrake Riser. This offers considerable advantages, especially in accelerated flight. The new riser allows the MENTOR 6's cross-country potential to be fully...

Philipp Medicus has been working at NOVA for nearly ten years and in the past five he has been the head of the design and testing team.  This year, he and Luis Depping (NOVA harness designer), decided to make a detour on their way to the Coupe Icare and headed to Mont Blanc. Incidentally, the highest mountain in the Alps at 4808 meters.

Werner Schütz, Urs Haari and Armin Leitner have won the sports class of the national German, Swiss and Austrian cross-country championships – all flying a NOVA SECTOR.  With this impressive achievement, the pilots have demonstrated the outstanding cross-country potential of this wing.

For the last twelve years we have been awarding the Pilot and Newcomer of the Year at our annual Team Pilots Meeting. In 2018, the award went to Toni Brügger (SUI), Hans  Tockner  and  Tommy  Hofbauer  (AUT).  "Newcomers of the Year" were Maxime Boudot  (FRA) and Christoph Feichtl (AUT). So, why did they win?

NOVA Team Pilot Rinaldo Vuerich lives near Rome and belongs to the best XC pilots in central Italy. In August he flew a new record from Monte Cucco, following the “Magic Line” of a huge convergence with his SECTOR.

On the 19th of July 2018, NOVA team pilot Berni Pessl flew the longest FAI triangle ever flown in Slovenia (244.37 km) on a NOVA ION 5 Light: With this flight he proved yet again how high-performing a low-end EN B wing can be in the hands of a excellent cross-country pilot. On the 16th of June he was already able to do a 145 km flight from the...

NOVA begins the 2018 XC season with a sensational innovation: Pessl’s Speed Spray, a special compound, which is applied to a paraglider to optimise the performance of the wing. Depending on the wing model, the glide number can be improved by 0.9 to 1.27. Pessl’s Speed Spray (PSS) was developed in collaboration with Berni Pessl – one of the world's...

Franz Breitwieser from Kremsmünster proved yet again that there is no need for a hot-ship to fly big distances. And he also showed how well the ION 4 performs. On the 21st May 2016, the 34-year-old flew a 231.3 km FAI triangle from the Grente. And he was no slouch: his speed averaged 23.52 km/h. It was interesting that "Franky", who won the 2015...

Simon Halter from Kerns in Switzerland is the surprise winner of the PRION XC-Challenge 2016. On the 18^th August 2016, he flew his PRION 1 from Fiesch to complete a flat triangle of approximately 66 km. Even more surprising was the he had never heard of the competition until he received our congratulatory email. His initial reaction: "Is this for...

Austrian Florian Schöpf has won the MENTOR XC-Challenge 2016 with an FAI triangle of 246 kilometres from famous Grente (South Tyrol / Italy). When we asked him about his flight, he sent us a wonderful report: