(Click here to download a summary sheet of all the IHPA trophies and awards.)
Hang Gliding Trophies
HG XC Trophy
Hang Gliding Cross Country Trophy
Awarded to the HG pilot who made the longest XC during the year
2008 - Geoff McMahon
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HG XC Championship
Hang Gliding Cross Country Championship Trophy
(HG XC League Trophy)
Awarded to the HG pilot who clocks up the most distance in the XC League during the year
(only the best 5 flights count)
2008 - Geoff McMahon
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HG Comps Trophy
Shane O’Reilly Memorial
Hang Gliding Competitions Trophy
Awarded to the HG pilot who clocks up the highest number of points in the IHPA Competitions League during the year
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Trevor Wilde Award
The Trevor Wilde Award
The Pilots Trophy
Awarded by the membership for outstanding contributions to the sport during the year
Did you win (or do you know who won) this trophy in any of the blank years?
Please help us to fill in the blanks in the IHPA Hall of Fame!
2008 - Phil Lardner
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Celtic Cup
The Celtic Cup
Ireland – Scotland – Wales – Iceland – Isle of Man
Click here for an RTE interview about the 1981 Celtic Cup
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Paragliding Trophies
PG XC Trophy
Paragliding Cross Country Trophy
Awarded to the PG pilot who made the longest XC during the year
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PG XC League
Paragliding Cross Country League Millennium Falcon Trophy
This trophy was donated to the IHPA by paraglider pilot John Penfold.
Originally awarded to “The Pilot’s Pilot (PG)” by popular acclaim at the AGM, it was rededicated 2004 as
The IHPA PG XC League Trophy after the Trevor Wilde Trophy was opened up to both HG and PG pilots.
It is now awarded to the PG pilot who clocks up the most distance in the XC League during the year (only the best 5 flights count)
After its own brief XC (from a clumsy pilot’s hands to the pavement) it was subsequently renamed The Millennium Jigsaw… but you can hardly see the cracks! Nice one Jason!
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PG XC Comps Trophy
Paragliding Cross Country Competitions Trophy
Presented to the winner of the IHPA Paragliding Competitions League
(league requires at least 5 tasks to be run to validate)
2008 - Gilbert McGlennon
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Trevor Wilde Award
The Trevor Wilde Award
The Pilots Trophy
Awarded by the membership for outstanding contributions to the sport during the year
Did you win (or do you know who won) this trophy in any of the blank years?
Please help us to fill in the blanks in the IHPA Hall of Fame!
2008 - Phil Lardner
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Irish Records
Note: Record flight categories are defined in Section 7D of the FAI Sporting Code.
Note: The current Section 7D document will always be used as the definitive reference.
Record Flight Categories in Ireland Current (and past) Record Holders
- Straight distance
- Straight distance to a declared goal
- Declared distance around a triangular course
- Declared distance using up to 3 turnpoints
- Declared out-and-return distance
- Free distance around a triangular course
- Free distance using up to 3 turnpoints
- Free out-and-return distance
- Speed around a triangular course - 25km, 50km, 100km, 150km
- Speed over out-and-return courses of 100km
- Gain of height
- Click here to register an Irish Record Flight claim
- Click here to view the FAI / CIVL Record Flight Database
- Straight distance
- Straight distance to a declared goal
- Declared distance around a triangular course
- Declared distance using up to 3 turnpoints
- Declared out-and-return distance
- Free distance around a triangular course
- Free distance using up to 3 turnpoints
- Free out-and-return distance
- Speed around a triangular course - 25km, 50km, 100km, 150km
- Speed over out-and-return courses of 100km
- Gain of height
- Click here to register an Irish Record Flight claim
- Click here to view the FAI / CIVL Record Flight Database
Straight distance
Date: 2019 May 12Class: Male
Sub-Class: O-3 Paraglider
Pilot: Bogdan Bialka
Type of Record: Straight Distance
Distance: 217.2km (134.96miles)
Aircraft: Ozone Enzo 3
Track Log: Leonardo
Previous Record: 210.3km (2019 May 11 - Bogdan Bialka)
Past Record Holders in this Category
Date: 2019 May 11
Class: Male
Sub-Class: O-3 Paraglider
Pilot: Bogdan Bialka
Type of Record: Straight Distance
Distance: 210.3km (130.67miles)
Aircraft: Ozone Enzo 3
Track Log: Leonardo
Previous Record: 202.1km (2019 May 05 - Rafal Obora)
Date: 2019 May 05
Class: Male
Sub-Class: O-3 Paraglider
Pilot: Rafal Obora
Type of Record: Straight Distance
Distance: 202.1km (125.58miles)
Aircraft: Ozone Mantra M7
Track Log: XContest
Previous Record: 190km (2018 July 25 - Rafal Obora)
Date: 2018 July 25
Class: Male
Sub-Class: O-3 Paraglider
Pilot: Rafal Obora
Distance: 190.0km (118.06miles)
Track Log: www.paraglidingforum.com
Date: 2006
Class: Male
Sub-Class: O-1 Flex Wing Hang Glider
Pilot: Geoff McMahon
Distance: 129.44km (80.43miles)
Track Log: none - see HG Trophies page
Date: 2017 May 10
Class: Male
Sub-Class: O-3 Paraglider
Pilot: Rafal Obora
Distance: 159.73km (99.25miles)
Track Log: www.xcontest.org
Date: 2016 March 31
Class: Male
Sub-Class: O-3 Paraglider
Pilot: Dorin Borodescu
Distance: 122.1km (75.87miles)
Track Log: www.paraglidingforum.com
Date: 1988
Class: Male
Sub-Class: O-1 Flex Wing Hang Glider
Pilot: Edward Redmond
Distance: 128.43km (79.80miles)
Track Log: none - see HG Trophies page
Date: 1987
Class: Male
Sub-Class: O-1 Flex Wing Hang Glider
Pilot: Bernard Skelly
Distance: 101.39km (63.00miles)
Track Log: none - see HG Trophies page
Date: 1982
Class: Male
Sub-Class: O-1 Flex Wing Hang Glider
Pilot: Ian Kibblewait
Distance: 77.73km (48.30miles)
Track Log: none - see HG Trophies page
Date: 1981
Class: Male
Sub-Class: O-1 Flex Wing Hang Glider
Pilot: Pat Molloy
Distance: 57.94km (36.00miles)
Track Log: none - see HG Trophies page
Date: 1980
Class: Male
Sub-Class: O-1 Flex Wing Hang Glider
Pilot: Pat Molloy
Distance: 49.89km (31.00miles)
Track Log: none - see HG Trophies page
Date: 1979
Class: Male
Sub-Class: O-1 Flex Wing Hang Glider
Pilot: David Hickey
Distance: 11.27km (7miles)
Track Log: none - see HG Trophies page
Date: 1977
Class: Male
Sub-Class: O-1 Flex Wing Hang Glider
Pilot: Trevor Wilde
Distance: 9.66km (6.00miles)
Track Log: none - see HG Trophies page
Straight distance to a declared goal
Date: 2018 June 19Class: Male
Sub-Class: O-3 Paraglider
Pilot: Rafal Obora
Distance: 99.7km (61.95miles)
Track Log: www.paraglidingforum.com
Free distance around a triangular course
Date: 2020 August 08Class: Male
Sub-Class: O-3 Paraglider
Pilot: Rafal Obora
Distance: 141.84km (88.14miles)
Track Log: www.xcontest.org
Past Record Holders in this Category
Date: 2017 June 19
Class: Male
Sub-Class: O-3 Paraglider
Pilot: Rafal Obora
Distance: 51.3km (31.9miles)
Track Log: www.paraglidingforum.com
Free distance using up to 3 turnpoints
Date: 2019 May 12Class: Male
Sub-Class: O-3 Paraglider
Pilot: Bogdan Bialka
Type of Record: Free Distance using up to 3 turn points
Distance: 226.8km (140.93miles)
Aircraft: Ozone Enzo 3
Track Log: Leonardo
Previous Record: 190km (2018 July 25 - Rafal Obora)
Date: 2018 July 25
Class: Male
Sub-Class: O-3 Paraglider
Pilot: Rafal Obora
Distance: 190.0km (118.06miles)
Track Log: www.paraglidingforum.com
Date: 2017 June 19
Class: Male
Sub-Class: O-3 Paraglider
Pilot: Rafal Obora
Distance: 51.3km (31.9miles)
Track Log: www.paraglidingforum.com
Free out-and-return distance
Date: 2018 June 23Class: Male
Sub-Class: O-3 Paraglider
Pilot: Rafal Obora
Distance: 27.3km (16.96miles)
Track Log: www.paraglidingforum.com
History
- Mt. Leinster Memorial
- IHPA World Records!
- Irish Aero Club
- IHPA Archive Dungeon!
- Pioneers of Irish Hang Gliding
- Mt. Leinster Memorial
- IHPA World Records!
- Irish Aero Club
- IHPA Archive Dungeon!
- Pioneers of Irish Hang Gliding
Mt. Leinster Memorial
The Mt. Leinster Memorial
Erected following the tragic death of Shane O'Reilly during the 2003 Celtic Cup
held at Mt. Leinster, this plaque remembers three IHPA pilots who lost their lives
pursuing the sport they loved, and serves as a permanent reminder that
life is both fragile and precious beyond measure.
IHPA World Records!
FAI / CIVL Certified World Records
Ireland 10 Jul 1989 107.1 miles Liavan Mallin Female Horseshoe Meadows, Owens Valley, CA, USA
Class 1 Hang Glider Airwave Magic IV Straight distance to a declared goal
Ireland 13 Jul 1989 132.0 miles Liavan Mallin Female Horseshoe Meadows, Owens Valley, CA, USA
Class 1 Hang Glider Airwave Magic IV Straight distance to a declared goal
Irish Aero Club
The Irish Aero Club 1909
The National Aero Club of Ireland 2009
The photo, below, was was also taken in the same location, on the 30th November 2009, to mark the Centenary of the IAC, now renamed
The National Aero Club of Ireland
[photo: 30 Nov 2009 - Left - Right (back row): 2L-Symeon Charalabides IHPA - 4L Sebastian van der Meijden IHPA - 7L Philip Lardner IHPA - 12L Graham Tobin IHPA - 14L Dara Hogan IHPA - 16L Eoin Hogan IHPA]
IHPA Archive Dungeon!
Enter the IHPA Archives Dungeon...
...wherein you will find, on dusty scrolls, long thought (and best) forgotten... tails of inflatable sex dolls... plastic shitters... naked Pig Sumo wrestling... human candelabras... wild cross-dressing AGMs... chain-saw Stag parties... Jerry Adams hang gliding... Flying Sluts... multiple writs for damages... and much, much more that should have seen the shredder long ago..!
Welcome to the Dungeon!
Why go to the bother of scanning in all this ancient guff? You may well ask..!
Well, we could invoke the lofty ideals of preserving the social history and evolution of the Association, but we don't honestly think you'd buy that! No, truth be told - it's more an act of charity towards all those toothless, superannuated old codgers (our founding members) now languishing in their maximum-security twilight facilities; to give them something to read while they gum their way through their mashed banana suppers and wait for the next chemical cosh to be handed out by the nurse. Sad but true, folks - The IHGA was responsible for creating an entire generation of derelicts who enthusiastically destroyed their livers in the pursuit of Irish Free Flight, spurred on by a collective death wish to fly those early suicide contraptions of bamboo and plastic.
Magazines
NB: If anyone has any of the old IHGA mags gathering dust in a box in the attic or further photographic evidence 'of a certain nature', please let me know and I'll add them here. Thanks.
Photographic Evidence!
Unfortunately history also records (in shocking detail... and in colour) the more colourful side of the IHGA's AGMs...
The Garda Síochána would like to thank Mike O'Brien for turning State's Evidence (super-grass) by providing the following:
Some of the 'themes' for past AGMs have included... Tarts & Vicars... Drag... Cowboys & Indians... Knackers... Black & White Minstrals... Naughty Skool Kids & Teachers... Doctors, Nurses & Patients... Top Hat & Tails or Ball-gowns... to name but a few!
In recent years the AGM has become all too sensible and professional, and has lost it's appeal for members to attend!
So... would you be more tempted to attend an IHPA AGM if the emphasis was on fun and craic!?
Who wants to attend a board meeting when you can take a walk on the wild side!
Vote now! (see poll below.)
And just to prove that some aviation really did get committed the next day...
Above: Finbarr Warren
Pioneers of Irish Hang Gliding
Gilbert McGlennon (25th Aug 2014): I found this video clip in some VHS tapes that were transposed from 8mm movie film. The quality is not good because of 3 media changes. It shows the late Joe Kerrigan with a glider he built and flew himself around 1973 and 1974. The clip shows the first outing with the glider at Lyre near Macroom Co.Cork. It is believed that was the first hanglider flown in Ireland, although I am not sure of that. Joe was certainly one of the pioneers of the sport in Ireland.
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