Timeline Photos FAI Balloon Live, a project in constant evolution: after the mobile app, the brand new Balloon Live Sensors 🎈☑️
Story + info 👉 https://bit.ly/3l7uL3w
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Timeline Photos Enjoy 50% off selected FAI-branded items 🎁
Be quick, as stocks are limited and the sale will end on 11 December 2020!
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Timeline Photos ✈️🌎 On 24 November 2000, American adventurer and pilot Steve Fossett and his crew Alexander Tai and Pierre d’Avenas broke the record for Speed around the world westbound (805.59 km/h) in a powered aircraft. Twenty years later, this record still... 1 Comments

So sad that we lost Steve way too early.

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Photos from FAI - World Air Sports Federation's post 🎈 Pivoting from COVID-19 cancellation to protocols for a safe event 😷
Read the story by Maury Sullivan, Event director of the 2020 US National Hot Air Balloon Championship
👉 https://bit.ly/3nBdG3P
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Timeline Photos 🤩 With 16000 pilots from 73 nations scored in 2020 despite the pandemic, the FAI CIVL World Online XContest (WXC) is an amazing success. Meet Andreas Rieck, the man behind the scenes who, for many years, has been running the... 12 Likes

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Timeline Photos The Plenary Meeting of the FAI Aeromodelling Commission (CIAM) took place online this weekend.
Main discussions / Revised list of events for 2021 / Awards 👇
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There seem to be some conflict between the FAI Event calendar and plenary meeting revised Event calendar on the date...

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Photos from FAI - World Air Sports Federation's post 🐦🎈 Fun & accessible, the Early Birds 2.0 worldwide balloon competition allowed pilots and officials to improve their skills in competition flying.
Pilots were given 2 weeks to complete a flight with a given tasksheet in their own time and... 2 Comments

Sehr erfreuliche Entwicklung!Adorava dar aulas de modelismo

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Photos from FAI - World Air Sports Federation's post Paragliding 😁 FAI has received World and South-American records claims from Rafael Monteiro Saladini 🇧🇷 who flew 530 km in straight distance to a declared goal.
Read his interview 👉 https://bit.ly/2GnavN2 40 Likes

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Timeline Photos ✨🚀 Records of all the historic spaceflights were ratified by the FAI Astronautic Records Commission (ICARE), which continues to appraise and administer records to this day.
📷 NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration 1 Comments

Beautiful Aotearoa!

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Posted: Last month

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Precision Flying: perfect landing 🎯 Perfect landing!
In the landing section of Precision Flying, pilots have to perform 4 landings from 1000ft on downwind. 2 are glides (one flapless) and 2 are powered approaches (one over a 2m barrier). Pilots aim for a 2m... 2 Comments

Lovely to watch this. Bravo!!!
To develop spot landing skills, I recommend pilots get some gliding experience. Every landing is...Ravansith Thammarangsy ça c’est de la précision !

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Timeline Photos 😷 COVID-19: read the interview with Sergey Ananov, President of the Russian Federation of Aeronautical Sports 🇷🇺
👉 https://bit.ly/31tPBmS
He discusses the impact of COVID-19 on air sports in his country and new perspectives for the FAI. 14 Likes

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Timeline Photos 🤗 Congratulations to the winners of the World Online XContest 2020 🏆
List of winners, stats & facts 👉 https://bit.ly/3kjoke6 10 Likes

Posted: Last month

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Photos from FAI - World Air Sports Federation's post 🚁 Early helicopter records 📜
Between 8 and 13 October 1930, pilot Nelli and engineer d'Ascanio 🇮🇹 broke three helicopter world records in Rome: duration record (8min 45sec), distance in a straight line (1078m) and altitude (18m).
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Photos from FAI - World Air Sports Federation's post Is Eole the first-ever aeroplane⁉️
On 9 October 1890, French engineer Clément Ader’s Eole aircraft took off from the grounds of Château d’Armainvilliers near Paris for a distance of approximately 50m and a height of around 20cm.
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VintageAirRally

A flying rally across Africa, from Crete to Cape Town, for aircraft built before the 31st December 1939.

The VintageAirRally Crete2Cape departs Crete on the 12th November, arriving in Cape Town five weeks later. Recreating the African aviation of the 1920s – The VintageAirRally follows in the slipstream of the early pioneers.

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www.vintageairrally.com