Day 3 has been an incredibly intense day of competition at the 2024 FAI World Championships in Artistic Events, Formation Skydiving, Speed Skydiving, and Wingsuit Flying in Beaufort, USA. Results ...
13th FAI World Paragliding Accuracy Championships have launched in Alanya-Antalya, Turkey. The event will be held from Oct 9 to Oct 19, 2025. It is organized by Alanya Air Sports Club & Ulu Sky ...
It is exactly 30 years since Kanellos Kanellopoulos, a Greek cyclist who competed in the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, functioned as human engine for the 1988 MIT Deadalus project, completing a ...
The 19th FAI World Paragliding Championships have successfully finished in Castelo, Brazil. 129 pilots from 52 nations participated in the event. The event took place from 31 August to 12 September ...
A fourteen-year-old pilot from Korea has won the FAI Drone Racing World Cup. MinJae Kim, who fell in love with drones in elementary school, has devoted all his spare time to drone racing and even ...
On 1 March 1999, the hot air balloon pilots Bertrand Piccard of Switzerland and Brian Jones of Great Britain took off on an historic, non-stop, 20-day flight during which they circumvented the globe ...
The Karman line is the 100km altitude used by FAI and many other organisations to mark the “boundary” of space. In the last few years there have been many scientific and technical discussions around ...
Dressed in a spacesuit and wearing a large backpack, the astronaut floats gently upwards, light as a snowflake against the dark sky. As he floats, he gradually increases the centimetres, the metres, ...
Two-hundred and twenty years ago today, on 22 October 1797, pioneering balloonist André-Jacques Garnerin became the modern world's first successful parachutist.Born on 31 January 1769 in Paris, France ...
By Hiromi Furukawa (JPN), hot air balloon Pilot, CIA PMR & Officials Subcommittee member The 5th FAI Women’s World Hot Air Balloon Championship (WWHABC) in Northam, Australia is quickly approaching.
In 1922, to celebrate the centenary of the Independence of Brazil, Portuguese aviators Carlos Viegas Gago Coutinho and Artur de Sacadura Cabral set out from Lisbon with two goals: to make the first ...
Congratulations to Joe Wurts of New Zealand, and junior competitor John Bradley of USA, whose outstanding performances in the final rounds have rewarded them with gold medals and world champion titles ...