It was a rapid dash up to St. Hilaire via Judith's to arrive just-in-time to meet the new French AirDesign Importer, find our house for the weekend and then back for Xavier's party in the big-top ... a great evening of music, green beer and lots of friends :)

... drinking to Xavier!

Thursday was 'work' day setting up our stand before the real work began - lots of AirDesign chat, meeting producers, importers, distributors and a little bit of flying too to show off what we do!

AirDesign stand at St. Hilaire

St.Hilaire is always a great place to catch up with people I haven't seen for years and this year was no exception and as always with the new friends you meet here its a very social weekend ... as well as hard work!

Support for AirDesign from the highest levels!! ;-)

We were exhausted each evening after 10 hours on the stand each day so the partying was minimal though we did demolish a few bottles of vino tinto back at the house.

Home Sweet Home

All in all, it was the best St.Hilaire in years, helped largely by the good weather and great company but also due to the number of paragliding brands represented ...  in recent years it has become dominated by the motors which wasn't so good for those with no interest in flying with a noisy whirly-thing strapped to their back.

The 'glider without name' : our new AirDesign tandem

Lots of happy pilots demo'ed our gliders and feedback was really good from pilots of all shapes, sizes & interests.

Sunset on the Belledonne mountains

Dents de Crolles in the early morning

Slinky Lycra windmill !

Next stop on the AirDesign roadshow, Tegelberg in Germany ...