The 34th FAI World Gliding Championships in Australia ends on a high
Monday, 23 January 2017 14:06
34th FAI World Gliding Championships 2017 are declared open
Monday, 09 January 2017 10:32
Two years ago: Father and son set African Record
Friday, 06 January 2017 09:46
Australia welcomes the world to the FAI World Gliding Championships 2017
Thursday, 05 January 2017 16:33
German Holger Karow wins 7th FAI Sailplane Grand Prix Finale in South Africa!
Friday, 11 November 2016 19:54
Until the last race it was very close at the top and any of the top five pilots still had a chance to win the contest. 7th FAI Sailplane Grand Prix Final kicked off in Potchefstroom (RSA)!
Sunday, 06 November 2016 08:04
The World Championship takes place from 05 to 12 November 2016 in Potchefstroom, Republic of South Africa (RSA). 125 Years of Flight Testing
Thursday, 04 August 2016 09:52
What is not as well known is that Lilienthal was a brilliant scientist and a revolutionary engineer. One hundred years after the first manned balloon flight, our understanding of mechanical flight had not advanced very much from the speculative art of Leonardo da Vinci. It was Lilienthal’s life’s work to understand the mechanical principles that allowed birds to fly. Through careful observation and experimentation, Lilienthal became convinced that:
These truths were first published in his book, Der Vogelflug als Grundlage der Fliegekunst (Birdflight as a Basis for Aviation). This comprehensive treatise, published in 1889, can be considered to be the first book on the subject of aerodynamics, and it included a chapter in which the author made a clear case that the future of aviation belonged to heavier-than-air flight. With the principles of mechanical flight thus established, the obvious next step would be to discover the design parameters for a machine that would be capable of carrying a man. Without any help from wind tunnels or computers, Lilienthal began construction of the first aircraft to be used specifically for the purpose of investigating the relationship between lift and drag. That aircraft first flew on a spring day in 1891, and the rest is history. Winners of the 2016 FAI Young Artists Contest Revealed
Tuesday, 26 April 2016 12:14
USA Tops the Final Medal Table of the FAI World Air Games
Monday, 25 January 2016 09:36
First sailplane flight over Dubai
Tuesday, 29 December 2015 15:56
On 7 December 2015 an historic first flight of a sailplane over the skyline of Dubai was performed. The pilots were Klaus Ohlmann and Tilo Holighaus. Here is Klaus's story of that flight.
After my presentation at the end of the Aeromedical congress, I paid a visit to our gliding friends in the Desert Drop Zone, where they were engaged in the "Gliding Match Race" event. Afterwards, we joined the German team for dinner in their hotel. As part of the effort to demonstrate our sport in Dubai, Schempp-Hirth had brought a brand new Arcus M , the latest doubleseater of their glider production. Tilo Holighaus proposed to me the idea of making some VIP-Flights with the Arcus. It was his brother Ralf who innocently posed the question of whether the famous skyscrapers of Dubai could produce lift, with an onshore breeze from the Gulf. Flying high: final FAI World Air Games medals awarded
Saturday, 12 December 2015 14:40
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