15th FAI World Glider Aerobatic Championships / 3rd FAI World Advanced Glider Aerobatic Championships

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2012 FAI European Championship for Soaring Model Aircraft in Chamblay, France

All the pictures of the F3K competition are now available!

2012 FAI European Championship for Aerobatic Model Aircraft in Châteauroux, France

Check out the pictures from the F3A competition (Seniors / Juniors) !

World Glider Aerobatic Championships Close in Slovakia

The 15^th FAI World Glider Aerobatic Championships (Unlimited Category) and the 3^rd FAI World Advanced Glider Aerobatic Championships have come to a close in Dubnica nad Váhom, Slovakia on Saturday, August 18^th, 2012.

The new FAI World Glider Aerobatic Champion (Unlimited) is Maciej Pospieszynski (below) of Poland flying a Swift S-1. Ferenc Toth of Hungary was in second place, also in a Swift. Third was Markus Feyerabend of Germany in a Swift as well.

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2012 FAI World Championships for Free Flight Model Aircraft in Belgrade, Serbia

Beautiful pictures of the competitions won by Lutz Schramm (Seniors) and Gabriela Kaplanova (Juniors)

2012 World Games Test Events

Pictures of the Paragliding Accuracy and Canopy Piloting competitions in Cali, Colombia

CIAM Flyer (04-2012) - Quiet Flights over Land

AEROSTATS are lighter than air models. We have two main types of aerostats: Hot air balloons and Airships. Airships obtain their sustentation from gas (or from hot air), have propulsion units and can be directed.

Next, we have three types of airships:

1. Blimps have an inflatable envelope and their shape is obtain by the pressure of the gas inside the envelope. Blimps are the most common airship models and the easiest to build
2. Hot air airships obtain their lift from hot air produced in an inflatable envelope
3. Rigid airships have a covered rigid structure and contain inflatable gas balloons.

Download the full content of the latest CIAM Flyer (04-2012) - Quiet Flights over Land in PDF format !

• Current and past issues of the CIAM Flyer can be downloaded on the CIAM Flyer web page

Formation Skydiving & Artistic Events in Prostejov, Czech Republic: 27 Aug - 2 Sept 2012

The competition starts in a few days! Check out the invitation video!

2012 FAI World Championship for Soaring Model Aircraft

See the pictures of this competition won by Benedikt Feigl (GER) and Carlo Gallizia (ITA)

Paragliding Accuracy marks the spot in Cali, Colombia

The Paragliding Accuracy Test Event of the World Games in Cali, Colombia is underway. The competition, being held at the Marco Fidel Suarez Air Force base, provides a venue convenient for winch-launching and for spectators, close to Colombia’s ‘Salsa City’. It is being run in parallel with Parachuting Canopy Piloting.

The venue has been months in preparation, with the construction of a swoop pond for the parachutists, measuring 25m x 65m. The Paragliding Accuracy target is located close by, so that the landing areas of both disciplines are immediately in front of spectator stands. Although this year’s Test Events are low key affairs, next year, these airsports events are expected to attract huge crowds from the local population as well as internationally.

Two rounds each of paragliding accuracy and parachuting canopy piloting have been completed on the first full day of the competition.

The inclusion of Paragliding Accuracy in the Cali World Games has given a tremendous boost to the discipline in Colombia. Recent local FAI Cat 2 competitions have produced a field of 20 Colombian pilots competing this week. There is international representation, with pilots from Czech Republic and United Kingdom. Next year, 36 of the world’s top paragliding accuracy pilots will be selected and invited to participate.

The World Games

Paragliding Accuracy and Parachuting Canopy Piloting represent the only two airsports taking part in the 2013 edition of The World Games. A diverse range of some 30 non-Olympic sports are featured, including rugby, orienteering, fistball and Squash, acrobatic gymnastics, sumo wrestling and fin swimming. Some 4000 athletes from 120 countries are expected to compete. See: http://www.theworldgames.org/the-sports/sports

Test events for this multi-sport extravaganza are taking place throughout this year, and will all be played out at the same time next year from 25 July to 4 August.

Pic caption: Andy Shaw (GBR) scores in the first round of the Paragliding Accuracy World Games Test Event. Note the parachuting ‘swoop pond’ just behind.