13th FAI World Paragliding Accuracy Championships have launched in Alanya-Antalya, Turkey. The event will be held from Oct 9 to Oct 19, 2025. It is organized by Alanya Air Sports Club & Ulu Sky ...

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 opening ceremony of the 1st FAI Asian-Oceanic Paragliding Accuracy Championships in Pasak Jodlasid Dam, Saraburi, Thailand took place in the morning of the 6th of April. The competition will run ...

On 1 March 1999, the hot air balloon pilots Bertrand Piccard of Switzerland and Brian Jones of Great Britain took off on an historic, non-stop, 20-day flight during which they circumvented the globe ...

The Lucky Lady II was never meant to fly around the world. The aircraft – a Boeing B-50A Superfortress – was originally a backup option for the B50 Global Queen, which had been selected to make the ...

(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 ...

The much-anticipated 2024 FAI World Drone Racing Championship is set to make an exciting return to China. This thrilling event is scheduled to take place in Hangzhou, over four days spanning from ...

Two-hundred and twenty years ago today, on 22 October 1797, pioneering balloonist André-Jacques Garnerin became the modern world's first successful parachutist.Born on 31 January 1769 in Paris, France ...

FAI is proud to announce that the first ever FAI World Drone Soccer Championships (WDSC) will take place in Shanghai, China, from 15 to 18 November 2025.

FAI celebrates today the 10th anniversary of the start of Solar Impulse’s historic round-the-world flight, the first-ever circumnavigation powered solely by solar energy. On 9 March 2015, the ...

Chilean wingsuit pilot Sebastián ‘Ardilla’ Álvarez has completed a breathtaking flight, submitting preliminary claims for multiple FAI World and South American records. The attempt demonstrated this ...

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 ...