This is the second time that drone racing has made an appearance at The World Games and for the FAI it’s an important opportunity to showcase air sports to the outside world. With the next edition of ...

Fly to Save Lives’ will be the theme for the 2026 FAI Young Artists Contest. By focusing on this topic, the World Air Sports ...

Last week, the FAI Executive Board and Commission Presidents met in Lausanne for a two-day joint meeting. The gathering offered a valuable chance to meet face-to-face, reflect on challenges, and ...

After seven hard-fought racing days at the 2025 FAI Qualifying Sailplane Grand Prix at Terlet, Tijl Schmelzer from Belgium ...

Last week, at the Royal Aero Club Awards held at the RAF Club in London, Sir David Hempleman-Adams (pictured left) was officially presented with the title of FAI Companion of Honour—one of the highest ...

20 years ago, on 14 May 2005, French pilot Didier Delsalle took a helicopter to the top of the world and gained the FAI record for highest take-off - from the peak of Everest at 8,848m. After Jean ...

In October 2025, Michel Pallier will travel to the FAI Awards Ceremony in Finland to receive a FAI David Faulkner Bryant Diploma in recognition of his labour of love: a handbuilt construction of a ...

FAI is pleased to announce that the 119th FAI General Conference will take place from 22 to 24 October 2025 in Vantaa, Finland. This year’s annual meeting, hosted by the Finnish Aeronautical ...

CIVL is happy to inform that Section 7 of the FAI Sporting Code 2025 with its annexes, was published on fai.org. It can be ...

(Header image by Shengyu Wang of China, whose dynamic interpretation of the theme gained a third place in the senior category) Winning artists in the 2025 Young Artists Contest splashed colour and ...

During the 75th ISC Plenary meeting recently held in Rome, China was awarded the Bid to host the upcoming 16th FAI World Cup of Style and Accuracy Landing and 1st Asian Style and Accuracy ...

Registration for the 19th FAI World Paragliding Championships in Castelo, Brazil, is open. The event will take place from August 30 to September 13, 2025. Associação Capixaba De Voo Livre—ACVL, on ...