Neil Robertson and Aleš Kubíček inducted into the CIA International Ballooning & Airship Hall of Fame

Update - 29 October 2024: Enjoy the video of the Hall of Fame  Induction ceremony held at the Anderson Abruzzo Albuquerque Balloon Museum on October 4, 2024, honoring Neil Robertson and Aleš Kubíček!

By Lynne Newton, Exhibitions Curator, Anderson Abruzzo Albuquerque International Balloon Museum

2024 CIAM Plenary Meeting: Highlights

The 2024 CIAM Plenary Meeting took place in Lausanne from 12 to 13 April. It was the first time the meeting had been held in person since 2019. The format was slightly different as all the Technical Meetings were organised before the Plenary using Zoom, which enabled more interested persons to participate; therefore, the Plenary was attended mostly by the Delegates.

Elections

It was an election year, and after the vote, most of the Bureau members from the previous two years retained their positions:

2024 FAI F1D World Championships for Indoor Model Aircraft: winners

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 participating teams paid tribute to the late Aeromodelling legend Jim Richmond, who made significant contributions to this particular class.

Winners

Senior Overall:

Travelling ultra-light: new FAI distance record by Jiří Pruša and Eliška Kudějová

Czech pilots Jiří Pruša and Eliška Kudějová climbed into the Shark 600 on 23 August 2023, slipping off their shoes to further reduce the aircraft’s weight, in addition to the kilos they had already shed through dieting in the run up to the flight. After a thwarted previous attempt in May, every last gram mattered to the pair’s mission: to beat the record of 1036.073km for ‘Distance in a closed circuit without landing’ set by Hungarian pilot Krisztian Dolhai in 2020. They beat his record by a substantial 876km.

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