Paramotor Magazine, issue 16
December 2009 / January 2010
She is the uncrowned Women’s World Champion. Ed Ewing asked the Queen of paramotoring for an audience
There can’t be many paramotor pilots who have been featured in Cosmopolitan magazine, but Emilia Plak is one of them. Wearing jeans and a T-shirt she was photographed next to her motor, smiling out at the readers of the Polish version of the magazine.
She is exactly the sort of woman Cosmo, the world’s biggest selling women’s magazine, love. Young (she is 32); successful (she has her own company importing paramotor gear for Paramania and Swing and is also an instructor training 80 students a year); succeeding in a man’s world (she came fourth in this year’s World Championships, putting a few macho noses out of joint); and living a life full of adventure (she is off to Thailand, and recently spent two months travelling and flying in South America).
But there is more to her than a ‘Cosmo-babe’ label would imply...
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