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20 Apr 2023
Congratulations to Yuval Sarig of Israel, who has been awarded the 2023 Aeromodelling Scholarship of the FAI Aeromodelling Commission (CIAM). Chosen for his significant number of championship titles over the previous six years of competing, Yuval – an F1 Free Flight aeromodelling pilot – also...
05 Aug 2015
This is IGC Journalist Angela Sheard's August 3, 2014 report from the World Gliding Championships in Leszno, Poland. Thursday’s (25.07.14) task for Open Class (only) was cancelled shortly after the start gate was due to open due to the black clouds rushing towards Leszno and over the airfield. Some...
At the start of the 20th Century, the pioneering flights of pilots such as Clement Ader, the Wright Brothers and Santos-Dumont, the proliferation of aeronautical competitions, and increasingly rapid technological advances marked the real birth of the modern aviation era. A small group of men...
19 Sep 2023
The two Gallet brothers from France each became champion in their category at the recent 2023 FAI F5J World Championships for Electric Powered Thermal Duration Gliders in Bulgaria: Adrien, aged 20, in the seniors, and his 12 year old brother Romain in the juniors. The remarkable double gold medal...
06 Sep 2016
Let us look back 45 years on the 6 September 1970 and recall an FAI World Record in Gain in Altitude for Aeromodelling and Spacemodelling (Class F) that has not been broken since. On that day, the American Maynard Luther Hill set the record in Gain in Altitude for Radio Control Flight Aeroplane,...
Glider Aerobatics Aerobatics Luca BERTOSSIO (ITA) Ferenc TOTH (HUN) Premysl VAVRA (CZE) Powered Aerobatics Olivier MASUREL (FRA) Artur KIELAK (POL) Rob HOLLAND (USA) F2D - Control Line Combat Model Aircraft Aeromodelling Alexandrs PROKOFJEVS (LAT) Jussi FORSS (FIN) Rudolf KOENIGSHOFER (AUT) F3N -...
