Five years ago today: Jacques Bott supersedes his own record
Tuesday, 30 May 2017 09:27
Bidding opens for the 1st FAI World Drone Racing Championships
Tuesday, 30 May 2017 16:22
On this day: Charles Lindbergh became the first person to fly New York to Paris
Sunday, 21 May 2017 00:01
Ninety years ago, on 21 May 1927, American aviator Charles Lindbergh set the world alight when he completed the first non-stop solo flight from New York to Paris. In doing so he set an FAI World Record for ‘Distance in a straight-line without landing’. FAI Young Artists Contest 2018: 'Flight into the Future'
Tuesday, 16 May 2017 09:17
The FAI has announced the theme for its popular annual FAI Young Artists Contest for 2018. Youngsters between the ages of 6 and 17 are invited to submit drawings and paintings working under the theme of ‘Flight into the Future’. PGA Worlds is over. Meet the Champions!
Sunday, 14 May 2017 22:38
The 9th FAI Paragliding Accuracy Championship in Vlora Albania concluded with what was probably the most dramatic finish ever encountered in this aeronautic discipline. CIAM Flyer (02-2017) - Small-Scale Lindbergh 2003, Maynard Hill’s transatlantic flight
Tuesday, 09 May 2017 10:37
In 2002, after a gruelling 4-year marathon of hard work, retired Johns Hopkins University metallurgist Maynard Luther Hill began the attempts at crossing the Atlantic with his model aeroplane. On 9th August 2003 "TAM 5" took off in Newfoundland and, 38 hours, 52 minutes and 19 seconds later, reached Ireland near Mannin Beach. Red Bull Air Race 2017: Muroya wins in USA
Monday, 17 April 2017 08:30
New FAI Swoop Freestyle World Championships announced
Thursday, 13 April 2017 12:01
2017 FAI Young Artists Contest: Winners announced
Wednesday, 12 April 2017 10:49
100 days to go to The World Games in Poland!
Tuesday, 11 April 2017 13:49
The kick-off of this multi-sport event will take place on 20 July with the Opening Ceremony. FAI ratifies two world records for ‘revolutionary’ Aerobatics e-plane
Tuesday, 04 April 2017 10:13
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Five years ago Frenchman Jacques Bott superseded the record he himself established in 2010 by covering on 30 May 2012 an out-and-return distance of 366.4 km from Serres to La Batie-Montsaléon, France, flying an Aeriane Swift Light hang glider – the record still stands today!
FAI has issued a call for bids for the first FAI World Drone Racing Championships, to be held in late 2017 or early 2018.
Charles Lindbergh flew solo from New York to Paris on 20/21 May 1927. Celebrate the 90th anniversary of this historic flight – 
The theme for the 2018 FAI Young Artists Contest is ‘Flight into the Future’ – and entries are open.
The San Diego stop of the 2017 Red Bull Air Race World Championship was full of surprises on Sunday 16 April as Yoshihide Muroya of Japan claimed the win, while Slovenia’s Peter Podlunšek was second, and defending World Champion Matthias Dolderer of Germany took third.
A new FAI Swoop Freestyle World Championships will see its first event in August this year, following a new collaboration between the FAI and a specialist sports company, A. Sports.
The winners of the 2017 
Today marks the 100 days to go to the World Games 2017 in Wroclaw.
The FAI has ratified two new speed world records flown with a revolutionary electric-powered Aerobatics plane. Germany’s Walter Extra and Walter Kampsmann set one world record each, on 23 March 2017. Both pilots launched and flew the record from Schwarze Heide Airport near Dinslaken, Germany.-
60 years ago today: Sputnik 1 and the Dawn of Space
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Mamistov strikes gold for a third time
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Muroya wins in Germany’s Lausitzring
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Matt Hall wins Qualifying in Germany
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France takes the gold at the Coupe Aéronautique Gordon Bennett 2017
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French pair win world’s most prestigious gas-balloon race
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Drones at the cutting edge
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Sonka stuns rivals with Porto win
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Preparing for the Drone Invasion
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On this day in history: Alexandr Fedotov flies into the record books
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