Refer to this SAD update: http://flygirl.co.za/content/view/174/120/ 

South Africa - Home of Paragliding World Records (but not the 426km as stated below)

Desiree and Arnold Pansi of FlyDeAar hosted the latest world record breaking flights by brothers Urban and Aljaz Valic who flew their Mac gliders 425/6 km to break Will Gadd´s open distance record (unofficially, because of a technicality)

The Slovenians took off from Vosburg, 100 north of De Aar, on winch and flew for over 7 hours to land 300m apart after flying past their declared goal of 368km and on to 425/6km.  The problem was that they flew back and landed and that is what they are scored on,not the distance in the air proven by their GPS's.

Tandem pilot Richard Westgate and passenger Phil Bibby flew their tandem 356 km to set a new tandem world record. The previous record was 299km.

Congratulations to everyone including www.flydeaar.co.za 

More on best flights from De Aar:

Urban & Aljaz Valec       Dec 2006       MAGUS 5                   368km - * NEW DECLARED GOAL &
The brothers flew independently landing 300m apart             425km and 426km

Richard Westgate (UK)      2006     GRADIENT Bi-Golden    356km - * NEW TANDEM WORLD RECORD*                                                                                                                          2005       GRADIENT Bi-Golden   223km - 1st Tandem site record                                                                                                              Simon Headford (UK)           2006        AIRWAVE Mustang     338km - British Open Distance record

Martin Bacsack (SA/AUS)     2005      GIN; Boomerang 3       344km - Previous SA Record                                                                                                                 John Broderick (SA)              2005      GRADIENT; Aspen      334km - a new SA Pilot record, which was broken minutes later by Martin Bacsack

Karl Bauer (GER)                2005      ADVANCE, Omega 6  222km - German Distance record                                                                                                         Alfredo Studer (CH)              2005       SWING, Mistral 4        306km - a new World Record on a DHV1-2 glider
Lolo Viarg (FR)                     2005      ADVANCE, Sigma 5    188km - LADIES site record

Since the site opened there has been:

32 x 200 plus km flights & 13 x 300 plus km flights flown on Paragliders.

NOTE that FlyDeAar don't even bother listing 100 plus km flights as this is considered easy pickings.  Anything under 50km is not noteworthy at all as it is an 'everyday occurance' in season!!!

Hang gliders have flown between between 200km & 450km.

For more on De Aar flying: 

www.pottiesbnb.co.za/

www.flydeaar.co.za