FAI - Annual Report 2014

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FAI ANNUAL REPORT–2014 32
Achievements
International
Records
Alexis Anastasiou /
Petros Printezis (GRE)
−− WORLD RECORD
−− MICROLIGHTS AND PARAMOTORS
MICROLIGHTS: MOVABLE AERODYNAMIC
CONTROL / LANDPLANE/ FLOWN WITH TWO
PERSONS/ THERMAL ENGINE
− − Altitude
On 21 January 2014, Alexis Anastasiou and Petros
Printezis used a Pipistrel Sinus 912 with a 1 Rotax 912
engine to climb to an altitude of 7608 m from Kopais
Airfield in Greece.
Drawing up rules, and controlling and ratifying
aeronautical and astronautical world and continental
records represent important aspects of FAI activities.
Since the first record-setting flights were recorded
in 1906, more than 16,000 world records have been
ratified by FAI to date.
The full list of 2014 records canbe foundon