Hola drone racing fans! The FAI Drone Racing World Cup is touching down in Barcelona, Spain this weekend – and it looks set to be another exciting and closely fought contest.
Organisers are expecting 70 of the best drone pilots from across Europe and around the world to descend on Les Comes, a short drive north of the city centre, for the 2018 Barcelona Drone Racing F3U World Cup.
The finely-honed skills of the crews participating in the Helicopter World Cup 2018 were put to the test once again at the third stage, held at Zielona Gora’s Przylep airfield (POL) on 28-30th June.
The challenging technical event saw 19 crews from four different countries compete in Fender and Slalom races in two classes: General and Masters.
Representatives of the 13 FAI Air Sports Commissions combined work with pleasure on their recent trip to the stunning venues chosen for the FAI World Air Games 2020 in Turkey.
Led by FAI Sports and Events Director Markus Haggeney, and hosted by Turkish Aeronautical Association Türk Hava Kurumu, the trip started in the cosmopolitan Turkish capital of Ankara.
The objectives were to introduce the delegates to THK officials, visit the proposed venues, and start looking into how to ensure the successful management of the games.
For the second time in this century hang gliding pilots enjoy the outstanding hospitality of Krushevo for their FAI Category 1. The event will be held from 08 Jul to 21 Jul 2018. 125 pilots from 26 nations take part in the championships. The opening ceremony was held in the centre of the town. Participants were greeted by the major Tome Hristoski, meet director Goran Dimiskovshki and FAI Jury President Mitch Shipley.
If you’re near Meiringen in Switzerland over the next few days, look up and you might be treated to an incredible spectacle, as almost 100 highly skilled aeromodellers take to the skies above the scenic Haslital region for the 2018 FAI F4 World Championships for Scale Model Aircraft.
The competition, which is held every two years and attracts the best pilots and builders of scale aircraft from around the world, started this weekend and runs until July 14.
The 3rd FAI World Cup of Indoor Skydiving may not be due to take place until October, but the athletes and organisers participating in this exciting event are already hard at work - planning and training to wow the judges and give you an amazing show.
Impressive, graceful and accessible, indoor skydiving is one of the fastest growing air sports in the world today.
This year's FAI World Cup competition will take place at Gravity Indoor Skydiving in the Kingdom of Bahrain from October 25 to 28.
Following the highly successful inaugural Championships in 2017, two stages in the FAI Swoop Freestyle World Championships will take place this year.
Swoop - Freestyle Canopy Piloting - is a high-impact, adrenalin-fuelled discipline, involving parachutists flying at high-speed across a body of water (“the Pond”) to score points based on style and execution.
To showcase this awe-inspiring spectator sport, the vibrant cities of Copenhagen (DEN) and San Diego (USA) will host the two international competition stages.
Drone racing is one of the fastest-growing air sports in the FAI, attracting thousands of youngsters each year.
As well as being fast and exciting it’s accessible. Pilots can join club leagues and get racing very quickly, often at local airfields or alongside more traditional aero-modelling clubs.
But there is more to a good drone-racing venue than simply putting poles in the ground and racing around them.
Spectators are due to flock to Voss, Western Norway to catch the first stage of the Acro World Tour (AWT) as part of the Ekstremsportveko festival - the largest extreme sport festival in the world – which runs from 23-29 June 2018.
As a proud International Olympic Committee (IOC) Recognised International Sports Federation, the FAI joins sporting organisations around the world in celebrating Olympic Day - an international initiative designed to promote fitness and wellbeing, as well as the Olympic ideals of Fair Play, Perseverance, Respect and Sportsmanship.
Introduced in 1948 to commemorate the birth of the modern Olympic Games on June 23, 1894, Olympic Day promotes participation in sports of all kinds regardless of age, gender or athletic ability.
