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The best of FAI 2016 competitions video is here!

Have a look at FAI's compilation video of the main competitions of the season 2016:

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Red Bull Air Race World 2016: Matthias Dolderer wins World Championship title


2016 10_17_Matthias_Dolderer1_2Matthias Dolderer won the Red Bull Air Race World Championship on Sunday 16 October 2016.

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Red Bull Air Race 2016: Interview with the champion Matthias Dolderer

2016 10_17_Matthias_Dolderer1Matthias Dolderer is the Red Bull Air Race World Champion 2016. Now 46 he’s been flying solo since he was 14. We asked him about what it’s taken to get here…

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Red Bull Air Race 2016: ‘This game is really about focus’ – Melanie Astles

2016 10_16_Melanie_Atles1Team Mélanie Astles is four-time French aerobatics champion who made the transition to Red Bull Air Race this year. Flying as part of the Challenger Class, the training class of the Red Bull Air Race World Championship, she is the only women competing on the circuit.

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Red Bull Air Race 2016: ‘Start with gliders first’ – Martin Sonka

2016 10_16_Martin_Sonka1Earlier this year we watched as Martin Šonka won gold in Freestyle at the 20th FAI European Aerobatic Championship, EAC 2016, held in his home country Czech Republic. A Red Bull Air Race pilot for the last three seasons, he explains how the two different disciplines of aerobatics and air racing complement each other – and why as a young pilot learning to fly a glider was one of the best things he ever did…

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Dutchman Frits Brink elected new FAI President

Brink2016 sFrits Brink from the Netherlands was elected yesterday as the new President of FAI at the 110th FAI General Conference in Bali, Indonesia.

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Red Bull Air Race 2016: What Nigel Lamb said to Mika Brageot...

Breitling-Team-Pair-650As one of the longest serving Red Bull Air Race pilots in the sport, Nigel Lamb is something of a legend in air racing circles. A longstanding Breitling Racing Team pilot, the British pilot was Red Bull Air Race World Champion in 2014 – and 2016 was his ninth season competing.

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110th FAI General Conference

GC2016 bannerThe sessions of the 110th FAI General Conference were held at the Westin Nusa Dua Hotel in Bali, Indonesia, on 14 and 15 October 2016.

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Red Bull Air Race 2016: Season Finale hits Las Vegas

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The Red Bull Air Race World Championships 2016 reaches its peak this weekend with an action-packed competition in Las Vegas.

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Prestigious FAI Awards presented for 2016

GC 2016_Awards_Gagarin_Group_picture_smallMen and women from across the world of air sports were honoured tonight with the prestigious FAI medals and diplomas at the 2016 FAI Awards Ceremony in Indonesia.

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NASA’s top man Charles Bolden is still aiming for the stars

bolden portrait_2Charles Bolden, who has been awarded the prestigious FAI Gold Space Medal for 2016, knows about space. Not only has he been in orbit four times, but for the last seven years he has been at the head of NASA.

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