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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 -...
15 Oct 2015
The Delegates to the FAI Members gathered in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, to attend the 109th FAI General Conference organised on Friday 25 and Saturday 26 September 2015 by the Royal Netherlands Aeronautical Association. It was preceded by the 2015 FAI Awards Ceremony on Thursday, where the...
15 Nov 2015
On 23rd and 24th October, Prague became the venue for the first ever World Championships in Indoor Skydiving. This dynamic sport, which belongs to the official air sports family for only a year and a half, hosted 202 flyers from 23 countries. The 1st FAI Indoor Skydiving World Championships 2015...
25 Aug 2021
On 25 January 2020, Leticia Noemi Marqués of Argentina, flying the Aerocene Pacha solar balloon, achieved 32 world records in just 16 minutes. The remarkable achievement was made in Argentina’s Salinas Grandes salt plain region at over 3000m above sea level, in an aerosolar balloon named Aerocene...
19 Aug 2023
By Hiromi Furukawa (JPN), Hot Air Balloon Pilot, CIA PMR & Officials Subcommittee member The 2023/6th FAI Junior World Hot Air Balloon Championship (JWHABC) begins soon with details as follows. Date: Practice flights on 20th and 21st August. Competition flights from 22nd to 26th August...
