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 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.
The CIAM F3 RC Aerobatics Subcommittee is responsible for the development and monitoring of four CIAM classes. F3A, F3P, F3M and F3S.
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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 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 ...
Upon his untimely death aged just 56, Felix Baumgarter from Austria has joined the long list of visionary pilots, astronauts, athletes and aviators who possessed the courage to push the limits of ...
On 14 October 2012, more than eight million people tuned in online to watch the Austrian skydiver, Felix Baumgartner jump from the edge of space. The jump itself was just 09m 03s long, but the ...