Recent World Record Claims and Competitions Update 02/09

World Records and Record Claims received recently by FAI include:

World Record Claim - Claim number : 15270
Sub-class :DU (Ultralight Gliders)
Category: General
Type of record : Free distance using up to 3 turn points
Course/location : Rosamond Skypark, CA (USA)
Performance : 1003 km
Pilot : James M. PAYNE (USA)
Glider : _SparrowHawk
Date :25.04.2009
Current record : 799.5 km (22.05.2003 - Bostjan PRISTAVEC, Slovenia)

Ratified World Record - Claim number : 15213
Category: General
Group : Absolute records
Type of record : Assembled mass of spaceships linked in flight
Course/location : Kennedy Space Center, FL (USA)
Performance : 388'777 kg
Team: STS-126
Crew : Christopher FERGUSON (USA), Eric BOE (USA), Stephen BOWEN (USA), Donald R. PETTIT (USA), Robert Shane KIMBROUGH (USA), Heidemarie M. STEFANYSHYN - PIPER (USA), Sandra MAGNUS (USA), Michael FINCKE (USA), Yury LONCHAKOV (Russia), Gregory CHAMITOFF (USA)
Spacecraft : NASA Space Shuttle Orbiter "Discovery" / ISS 1J/A
Date :30.11.2008
Previous record : 367 964 kg (25.03.2008 - . Team, International)

Ratified World record : Claim number : 15236
Sub-class :D15 (15m Class Gliders)
Category: Feminine
Type of record : Speed over an out-and-return course of 500 km
Course/location : Omarama (New Zealand)
Performance : 157.9 km/h
Pilot : Jenny WILKINSON (New Zealand)
Glider : Schempp-Hirth Ventus 2 B
Date :07.01.2009
Previous record : 136.59 km/h (18.12.1998 - Angelika MACHINEK, Germany)

World record claims: Class R (Microlights)
Sub-class :RPF1Tf (Microlights : Paraglider Control / Foot-launched / Flown with one person / Thermal Engine / Feminine category)
Course/location : Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife (Spain)
Pilot : Karen SKINNER (Spain)
Current record : no record set yet

Claim number : 15275
Type of record : Altitude
Performance : 4030 m
Paramotor : _other _Not indicated powered by YR 200 / PAP
Date :01.05.2009

and

Claim number : 15293
Type of record : Time to climb to a height of 3 000 m
Performance : 29 min
Paramotor : _other _Not indicated powered by YR 200 / PAP
Date :01.05.2009

and

Claim number : 15294
Type of record : Speed over a straight 15/25 km course
Performance : 54 km/h
Paramotor : _other _Not indicated powered by ROS 125 / PAP
Date :02.05.2009

COMPETITIONS UPDATE (1st CATEGORY EVENTS)

(Multi-sport)
06-14.06.2009 FAI World Air Games (ITA)

(Air Racing)
13-14 June 2009 Red Bull Air Race World Championship (USA)

(Paragliding)
20-27 June 2009 5th FAI World Paragliding Accuracy championship (CRO)