Five years ago on this day: A Microlight and Paramotor World Record still standing
Two years ago: Father and son set African Record
Russian balloonist Fedor Konyukhov awarded FAI - Breitling Pilot of the Year 2016 Award
13 November 1926: The FAI World Record of Major Mario de Bernardi
One of the last records we would like to commemorate this year comes from an Italian pilot, famous in civil and military aviation: 12 November 1906: The first flight by Santos-Dumont
PILOT PROFILE: 60 seconds with hang gliding champion Christian Ciech
NASA’s top man Charles Bolden is still aiming for the stars
22 September 1936: The FAI World Record of Maurice Claisse
A life in aerobatics: Mikhail Mamistov
7 September 1956: The first human flies above 100.000 feet
11 August 1986: The FAI World Record of John Trevor Egginton
Profile of a world champion: Ferenc Toth
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Today, five years ago on 17 February 2012, Indian pilot Parmjit Singh, used a special harness, the Aeros Discus 14 with a Radne Motor AB Raket 120, to fly a record distance in a straight line without landing of 313.13 km from Bikaner to Sanderav in Rajasthan, India.
Two years ago on this day, Tijl Schmelzer and his father Bert were the very first to pass the 200 km/h barrier using thermals rather than mountain waves.
A Russian priest who circumnavigated the world in a balloon in record time has been presented the inaugural FAI - Breitling Pilot of the Year Award at a ceremony in Switzerland yesterday, Thursday 17 November 2016.
110 years ago, exactly today, the first officially observed flight in Europe that was longer than 25m was performed in Paris (FRA) by the Brazilian Aviation Pioneer Alberto Santos-Dumont, resident in France and famous for his experiments with small airships and balloons.
Christian Ciech is one of the most successful pilots in competition hang gliding, and was FAI European and World Champion at the same time in 2016. We spoke to him…
Charles 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.
The Bréguet Dorand aircraft was an experimental helicopter which was built in the Gyroplane Laboratoire in France.
From learning to fly in 1983 in the then Soviet Union, Mikhail Mamistov has become one of the most decorated pilots in the history of Aerobatics competition. We meet the legend…
60 years ago on 7 September 1956, American Test pilot Iven C. Kincheloe Jr. flew at more than 3.200 km/h (2.000 mp/h) and to a height of 38.5 km (126.200 feet), becoming the first human ever to fly above 100.000 feet with the Bell X-2 rocket-powered research airplane.
11 August 1986: A modified factory demonstration Westland Lynx AH.1 Helicopter piloted by Chief Test Pilot John Trevor Egginton set an FAI Absolute Record for Speed for helicopters over a straight 15 and 25 km course of 400.87 km/h (249.089 mp/h) near Glastonbury on the Somerset Levels and Moors, Southwest England.
Ferenc Toth has been at the top of his game since the turn of the century. The FAI Glider Aerobatics World Champion won his first major competition in 2000, aged 32. That was the FAI European Aerobatic Glider Championships, held in Provence, France, and it was a close battle between him and Jerzy Makula – the ‘grandfather’ of glider aerobatics – for the top spot.- Five years ago on this day: A Microlight and Paramotor World Record still standing
- Two years ago: Father and son set African Record
- Russian balloonist Fedor Konyukhov awarded FAI - Breitling Pilot of the Year 2016 Award
- PILOT PROFILE: 60 seconds with hang gliding champion Christian Ciech
- NASA’s top man Charles Bolden is still aiming for the stars
- A life in aerobatics: Mikhail Mamistov
- 11 August 1986: The FAI World Record of John Trevor Egginton
- 13 November 1926: The FAI World Record of Major Mario de Bernardi
- 12 November 1906: The first flight by Santos-Dumont
- Profile of a world champion: Ferenc Toth
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