When “Grandpa Flieger” had his grandchildren to visit, he wasn’t sure how best to entertain them. But as a model pilot and educator, an idea sprang to mind: tinkering with beginner model aircraft, to grasp the basics of aviation!
When “Grandpa Flieger” had his grandchildren to visit, he wasn’t sure how best to entertain them. But as a model pilot and educator, an idea sprang to mind: tinkering with beginner model aircraft, to grasp the basics of aviation!
Jury President Andrew Cowley from UK shares the news of the 7th FAU European Paragliding Accuracy Championships.
The 7th FAI European Paragliding Accuracy Championships is going on. Myrianthe Ewington reports. Day 5 greeted the competitors with glorious sunshine and beautiful blue skies. Round 8 started sharply at 10.30 but the air was already starting to bubble! The first few pilots (both new and experienced) took maximum scores struggling to deal with the incredibly light winds and initial thermals.
Yesterday's round 6 had a remarkable number of dead center hits - five pilots ended the day with 000 in the results: Vlastimil Vachtl from Czech Republic, Samuel Sperber and Dominique Leclercq from France, Jaka Gorenc from Slovenia, Matthew Bignell from UK and Xhonatan Islami from Albania.
The second day of flying started mid-morning with ideal flying conditions... The second round, which was started the day before, was successfully completed and after a short break, the third round was also completed. This makes the event valid after just two days of flying. The fourth round was started but brought to a premature halt by a light rain shower just before the scheduled finish time. However, many excellent low scores were achieved including several dead centres (0cm) making the competition very tight.
FAI has received a Straight distance to a declared goal European record claim from Francisco Gines Navarro Gonzalez (Paco Navarro) and Marcelo Sanchez Vilchez (Spain). On July 25, 2022 they flew on the course Zarza - Capilla (Spain) - Bonete (Spain) 329,91 km. The current record was set in 2019, at that time Jouni Makkonen flew in Finland 274,7 km.
UPD: FAI Has ratified this a Straight distance to a declared goal European record on December 6, 2022. Congratulations!
FAI Astronautics Commission (ICARE) has awarded the FAI Yuri A. Gagarin Gold Medal to NASA’s Robert Behnken (left, above image) and Douglas Hurley (right) for their exceptional performance as flight crew during the SpaceX Demonstration Mission-2 (DM-2).
The pair are long-term friends and colleagues – both former military pilots who were recruited together by NASA in 2000 – and are known as Bob and Doug by their many followers online.
Thirty-three-year-old Elena Fergnani has been flying since the age of 14. After three years she entered her first competition in a dual seater aircraft before quickly progressing to single seat competition. She became club class women’s world champion in Australia in 2020.
Fifty Precision Pilots representing 12 nations have gathered at Albi Le Séquestre aerodrome to begin landing and navigation practice before the 25th FAI World Precision Flying Championships commence on 22 August. Competition days run until 25th August (with 26th as reserve day), and anticipation is high for this contest, with the previous (24th) edition taking place back in 2019, when Poland took top spot on the Teams podium. Will they be knocked off their top spot in 2022?
