On this day in 1932, pioneering pilot Amelia Earhart touched down in Londonderry, Northern Ireland after a 15-hour transatlantic flight that started in Newfoundland, off the coast of Canada.
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 ...
Imagine trekking through the skies on a thrilling treasure hunt where your team-mate, your wits, your map, and your compass are all you can rely on, to track down your targets... Beyond simple leisure ...
Having dreamed of flying since she was a young child, Rahaf Al Judaie was proud to gain her pilot’s licence last year with the Saudi Aviation Club. She believes that, “Every Saudi woman is capable of ...
Paragliders take us into a world driven not by the laws of man, but by the laws of nature. They have evolved significantly since their early parachuting days back in 1985. Early gliders had a glide ...
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 ...
One hundred and ten years ago today, on 8 March 1910, Frenchwoman Elise Deroche, aka Baroness Raymonde de Laroche, became the first woman pilot in the world to earn an airplane pilot licence. The Aero ...
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 ...
Team France are heading home from the UK elated, after a significant medal haul at the inaugural FAI World Paramotor Endurance Championships, hailed as a “historic moment” in the sport’s development ...
"It's the most beautiful thing about drone racing – I don't have limits anymore. I can compete with all the other participants, and I can have the same opportunities. There are no differences, we are ...
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 ...
On 2 August 1911 the Aero Club of America granted an FAI pilot’s licence to the adventure-loving journalist and screenwriter Harriet Quimby. It was the first licence to be awarded to an American ...
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