The CIAM F3 RC Aerobatics Subcommittee is responsible for the development and monitoring of four CIAM classes. F3A, F3P, F3M and F3S.

On this day in 2016, Russian adventurer Fedor Konyukhov set a new FAI absolute world record for the fastest circumnavigation of the globe in a combined (hybrid) hot-air and helium gas balloon, after ...

The FAI Astronautic Records Commission (ICARE) appraises and administers manned spaceflight record activities Read more ...

David Hempleman-Adams is a British adventurer who has set many world records. He is the only person to have travelled to the magnetic and geographic North and South poles and was the first person to ...

1.- Background a) Background in Astronautics Sir Isaac Newton discovered the concept of what is commonly named nowadays “orbiting”, long ago. This famous XVII-XVIII century scientist described what he ...

Corinna Schwiegershausen was born in Bremen, Germany in 1972 and took up hang gliding in 1991. She has been FAI Women's World Hang Gliding Champion four times. "My father started the sport and I ...

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 ...

FAI medals and diplomas aim at giving public recognition to those who have made outstanding contributions to aeronautics and astronautics, especially in the field of sporting aviation. They are ...

The 2024 FAI F4 World Championships for Scale Model Aircraft took place in Strejnic, Romania, from 10 to 17 August 2024. FAI congratulates the winners and thanks the organisers of the Championships.

IGC conducts FAI's Gliding activities, in particular World Records and Competitions with the exception of Glider Aerobatics ...

The Commission conducts FAI's Microlight and Paramotor activities, in particular World Records and International Competitions ...

2025 FAI World Hang Gliding Championships - Class 1, Class 5, Women ESP / Ager ...