HANNES ARCH: ‘DO WHAT MAKES YOU HAPPY’

One of the most popular Red Bull Air Race pilots is Hannes Arch, who was Air Race World Champion in 2008. He is known to the free-flight world as an early acro pilot and the ‘Race Mastermind’ behind the Red Bull X-Alps. At 48 he has nearly 20 years on Pál, but his progression through the sport has been similar. “I started really young” he says from his Air Race hangar in Abu Dhabi, “and actually I’m quite proud about the way I got into flying. It was hang gliding, I was 15 and with my Dad. It was a big adventure for me, for sure. “Then I got into climbing and mountaineering, and then I really got into paragliding when paragliding got big. I moved to Switzerland, I was…

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