CONTENTS HIGHLIGHTS SPEED ^WINGS The Ozone line of paragliders continues to grow, with exciting new innovations across our range. The Ozone R&D Team has been hard at work perfecting exciting new wings, and refining our existing range, elevating performance and safety in every category. Whether your goal this year is to win the World Championships or to begin your very first XC flight, we have what you need to get there. Every wing we build, from beginner to competition, is created with an equal amount of care and passion for our sport and for our pilots. Team Ozone The Dream Team Nonstop Innovation SharkNose...

Spanning the globe from the wilds of the Karakoram to the tropical shores of Hawaii, Ozone Team Pilots fly every single day of the year. It’s our life and our passion, and we’re grateful to be able to share it with you.

Our on-going mission is to maintain the synergistic relationship between our own lovingly managed manufacturing facility, our innovative and passionate R&D Team, and a caring dealer network. All of this, we hope, will continue leading us to our Dream Team’s dream: More Happy Pilots. At the core of this is our R&D Team. Luc, Dav, Russ, Fred, Honorin, and Erich, all provide design input, exhaustively test everything we make, and work together to perfect every product that we launch. Since Ozone began in 1998, we have dreamed of becoming a “whole” paragliding company, in the realest sense of the...

Originally the brain child of Luc Armant and Fred Pieri in early 2011, the SharkNose evolved from a rough idea and a sketch into a performance and stability enhancing design feature through the combined efforts of the Ozone R&D Team. This innovative feature can be found in most wings in our range including the popular Buzz Z5, Rush 4, Delta 2, and Mantra M6. Can’t stop, won’t stop. Pushing the design envelope is at the core of what we do. The 2016 range contains some exciting new developments in design and materials technology, including an expanded use of the patented Ozone SharkNose and continued...

THE OZONE CHABRE OPEN MORE SMILES & TITLES Since the inaugural Ozone Chabre Open eleven years ago, over one thousand pilots have had the pleasure of experiencing a fun and accessible competition environment for intermediate level flyers. With daily XC coaching and de-briefs from world-renowned XC mentor, Jocky Sanderson, and a crack team of highly experienced comp organizers and retrieve drivers, we think this is the best possible competition for anyone who is interested in learning more about competitive XC flying. For more info, visit www.flylaragne.com. From 2010 through today, the vast majority...

Follow the latest and greatest with frequent updates and team pilot news. Action, product information, adventure. Striking images and stories, instantly. The easiest way to be notified of Ozone news as it happens. We currently have over 50 videos to share and enjoy on our Vimeo feed. There is plenty of inspirational footage as well as informational product videos to watch. Ozone puts a lot of effort into to make sure you have accurate and up to date information on most of our new gliders, including interviews and details straight from the Ozone Team of designers and test pilots. There are videos...

We’ve been following him closely ever since he left France in 2008 by pedalling to and then across Spain and Morocco, then sailed from Africa to South America and started biking across the continent. 3/4 of the way around the country counter clockwise to the North. From there it was into Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, and China. He rode across the Middle East into Turkey, Greece, and up the coast of the Adriatic Sea back into Europe and his starting point in France. He arrived home on December 29th, 2015 after 104,759 km (65,094 miles) of travel and flying over 250 paragliding...

Two Volcanoes. Two Missions. Great Success. Jochen Schweizer over Mt. Etna The idea: An ecofriendly paragliding adventure, no airplanes, no cablecars, no cars taking us anywhere. Just our legs and thermals, sometimes a boat to cross the sea. Our luggage: tents, sleeping bags, a heavy bag of camera equipment and 3 Ultralights with OZO and F*Lite harnesses. We started with road bikes from our home base in Bavaria, Germany, south to escape from Germany’s upcoming winter. at the beginning of December, a time Mt. Etna (3352m) showed intense activity for more than 2 weeks. Climbing it was forbidden....

RECORD HUNT FREQUENT FLYERS New World Record: 514 KM in Brazil Photo by Marcelo Prieto 3 Tandem World Records Ozone R&D team member Honorin Hamard and Karine Gras went to Quixada, Brazil, with the goal of besting at least one of the current tandem records. They came away with three! Flying a custom build Swift 4, they captured: •• Multiplace World Straight Distance Record: 403.4 km (250.7 miles) World Free Distance Using Up To 3 Turn Points: 386.9 km (240.4 miles) World Straight Distance To A Declared Goal: 335.4 km (208.4 miles) Charles came away with 2 more Records to add to his existing 2...

Our friend, team pilot, and Red Bull X-Alps competitor Dave Turner has completed FIVE laps across the Alps. Two of his five laps started in the west and went east, two included going completely around the Slovenian Alps, with this last two starting in Salzburg and following the 2015 X Alps route, once in preperation for the race and once for the actual competition. When it was clear that Dave wouldn’t finish the race before the time expiration, he decided to finish it anyway on his own time and with a huge smile on his face. Follow Dave’s adventures at facebook.com/dave.turner.98434. His list...

: Loren Cox - Dune Soaring, Ica, Peru

DESIGNER’S NOTES THE CONCEPT •• We have designed the Atom 3 as the easiest, safest, most simple glider that Ozone has ever produced. Inflation and ground handling are exceedingly simple, and will vastly accelerate the students’ ground handling and launch learning process. The Atom 3 is very pitch stable, but at the same time features a long brake travel and excellent behaviour at slow speeds with no deep stall tendency. FEATURES •• EN/LTF A certification. •• Durable cloth: Dominico 30D. This cloth has proven to retain its visual characteristics better than any cloth known today, and its mechanical...