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 ...

Twenty years ago on 14 May 2005, Didier Delsalle flew an Ecureuil AS 350 B3 helicopter to the top of Everest and gained an FAI World Record for highest take-off in a helicopter at 8848m. Read ...

Brazilian helicopter pilot Andre de Freitas and his British co-pilot Peter Wilson have set off today, 18 June 2024, to attempt a new record. Over the next 100 days, they will visit 35 countries over ...

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 ...

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.

The 2024 FAI F1D World Championships for Indoor Model Aircraft took place from 23 to 26 March 2024 in Slanic Prahova, Romania. During the competition, officials from the FAI, organisers, and ...

Five years ago today, Swiss pilot André Borschberg landed the zero-fuel aircraft Solar Impulse HB-SIA after a 26h 10m 19s flight from and to Payerne, Switzerland. A normal duration for a jet, but an ...

One hundred and ten years ago on 28 March 1910, Frenchman Henri Fabre achieved successful lift off of an aircraft not from the ground, but from the water, and also landed it back on the water – a ...

On September 24, 2013, Canadian pilot Alexis Reichert set a new female world record for flight duration in a human-powered rotorcraft by staying airborne for 53 seconds in the Atlas Human-Powered ...

The 3rd FAI World Air Navigation Race Championship took place in Kamenica nad Cirochou, Slovakia, from 18 to 24 August 2024. Full results Pictures FAI congratulates the winners and thanks the ...

With whom else than Steve Fossett could we open our series of world record celebrations? From 1995 to 2007, the FAI ratified 93 of his performances, which makes him the holder of the largest number of ...

Test event of 24th FAI World HG Class 1, 10th FAI World HG Class 5, 15th FAI Women World HG Class 1 Championships has opened the registration. The event will be held on Jul 21 - 27, 2024 in Àger, ...