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Máté Nagy reaches the podium at the Preworlds (26.07.2010)

Máté Nagy (left) at the award ceremony

Nova Team Pilot Máté Nagy reached a great second place at the Preworlds in Piedrahita (Spain) with his Triton in the serial class. Piedrahita is a village, 150km west of Madrid, which is known for great soaring and thermal conditions. During the Preworlds the site presented itself in the best light and the serial class could complete five tasks with up to 155 kilometers.

Máté, who started paragliding in 2006 felt comfortable in the very strong conditions and was able to win two tasks and finally finished second in the overall ranking.

Christoph Bessei, a member of the Nova Juniors team, competed in his first international competition and finished in the middle of all participants. (rank 33)

Congratulations to both of you!

XC Month (19.07.2010)

After a lot of bad weather in may and june, july finally offers great conditions for nice flights and big XC flights. NOVA Team Pilot Peter Ertle was on the spot and could improve his PG-OPEN ranking at DHV XC from place 118 to the third place with just two flights. Peter flies one of the very first Tritons, which left our factory in autumn 2008. Probably there is no other Triton with a similar kilometrage: Peter submitted flights with more than 3000 kilometers! He reports, that the glider flies as nice, as it did on the very first day, and that his excitement about the glider is still the same as well. For him, the Triton offers a perfect combination of performance, handling characteristics, stability and safety.

It seems, that we stroke the right path, when we decided, not to build a very extreme wing, to barely pass the EN D / LTF 2-3 tests.

Congratulations Peter!

test work (01.07.2010)

Collapse co-production of Alex Höllwarth and Hannes Papesh (sitting in front)

After one month without great weather, we are really happy about the perfect conditions at the moment which allow us progress with different projects. One of these projects is a biplace, we have started to work on recently.

The challenge, when testing high performance prototypes often is, to deal with the reactions after collapses. The problem we are facing with our tandem is, that we are almost unable to provoke big collapses. On the two pictures above you can see our test pilot Alex Höllwarth and Hannes Papesh who induces a collapse with all his effort to get an idea of the gliders behaviour.

The first impression is quite good, but there is still a lot of work left, before we can present our new biplace. (It is almost certain, that we will introduce (at least) one solo glider before.)

We hope, that where ever you fly, the weather is as enjoyable as here in Tyrol and that you are having some nice flights!

Prion 19 certified (EN A/ LTF 1) (11.06.2010)

On a small XC flight with the PRION

A couple of days ago the smallest PRION (19sqm projected) was successfully certified with EN A/ LTF 1. Our test pilot Alex Höllwarth had to work hard during the last weeks to reach the safety level of the bigger sizes without loosing speed or the well balanced handling characteristics.

Finally Alex was successful and the small PRION offers (like the other sizes) superior take-off and flight behaviour and a very pleasant handling characteristic. Thanks to the weight range of 60-80kg very light pilots can now enjoy flying a PRION with perfect wing loading.

You can get a demo wing of the PRION 19 at your NOVA dealer soon!

PRION Feedback from the training hill (24.05.2010)

In this news section we often report about breathtaking XC flights or about other outstanding performances of great pilots.

We don't write too much about the joy of the recreational pilots or about the fascination of pilots who experience their first flights on the training hill. But those pilots make a big contribution to keep our sport alive. That's why we try hard to build the best gliders for this group of pilots and it fills us with pride if we are as successful as with the PRION.

We have been working intensely on our new EN A / LTF 1 glider and tested it in various conditions even more than we usually do. The reason for that might be, that our test team never so much fun with an EN A glider.

In the meantime we have received the first feedback from the schools, who told us that the teachers are as happy with the PRION as the pilots.

Our experience and our know-how doesn't just enable us to build great high-performance gliders for very experienced pilots. We are also capable of developing well-engineered EN A gliders, which don't get boring even after some years of flying experience.

We would like to invite all pilots to try one of our demo-gliders. Especially those, who still think, you can't have fun with a EN A wing.

Thanks for the video above to Ingo Kallmeyer and to the 1.DAeC school. (Youtube HD-Version)

Michael Pohl flies a 200km FAI triangle with his Triton (03.05.2010)

NOVA Team Pilot Michael Pohl aims to fly a 200km FAI triangle from Greifenburg (Emberger Alm) for quite some time. It is obvious that this is not an easy task, and no pilot has been able to fly this distance with a serial glider in Greifenburg. Until last Wednesday, when Michael landed with his TRITON after more than 8 hours and 200,27km.

Congratulations for this outstanding flight and thanks for showing once again what the TRITON is capable of in the hands of such a good pilot.

With this flight Michael has reached his big season-target early this year, which motivates him to fly even further. He is thinking of FAI triangles with more than 220k. We are looking forward to your upcoming flights!

see Michaels flight