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

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 ...

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 ...

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

The Coupe Aéronautique Gordon Bennett, the FAI World Long Distance Gas Balloon Championship, is the oldest and most prestigious event in aviation and the ultimate challenge for the pilots. It is a ...

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

Guillaume Catry has been active in Mechanical Engineering and Space Technologies at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) since 2015. He is the co-inventor and principal ...

Remarkable in its simplicity, Alan Eustace’s high altitude parachute jump on 24 October 2014 saw the 57-year-old float up, suspended below a gigantic helium balloon, to the outer edge of the ...

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 ...

CIACA's missions include the promotion of the construction of amateur and home-built aircraft; the restoration of vintage aircraft ...

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 ...