Throughout winter 2024, paramotor pilot Dan Jones was constantly weather watching. Poring over meteorological data, he spied a window of opportunity for 3 March. His mission? To fly a 500km triangle and beat the 13-year-old FAI World Record held by Peter Schulz of Germany: Distance in a closed circuit without landing. Jones managed to fly 516,95km for the world record, beating Schulz’s 504,167km, set in 2011.

This Saturday 16 August marks the start of the 23rd FAI European Hot Air Balloon Championship in Wieselburg, Austria, where almost one hundred of Europe’s most skilled pilots will compete in an extraordinary demanding test of navigation, teamwork, and precision flying.

The FAI E-Drone Racing World Cup season 2025 will kick off with the first event called '2025 FAI Legacy e-Drone Racing World Cup' - a nostalgic return to a historic track. The aim? To find out how much drone racing has evolved since 2018!

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 flying, this is Rally Flying: an exhilarating air sport that combines precision navigation and accuracy landing with the spirit of adventure and purpose. This sport is about raw flying skill, astute observation, and seamless teamwork.

The 2025 FAI F3K World Championships for Model Gliders has come to a close with three new World Champions of FAI model gliding crowned, in Tarp, Germany, following an intense competition with six days of challenging tasks that put the pilots’ meteorological and aerodynamic expertise to the test.

The 24th FAI World Hang Gliding Class 1 and 10th FAI World Hang Gliding Class 5 Championships have finished in Ager, Spain. The event was held from 13-26 July 2025. It was organised by Club Zenith Vol Lliure with the support of Federación Aèria Catalana and Real Federación Aérea Española. Six tasks were flown with 115 pilots competing in Class 1, and 32 in Class 5.

Congratulations to the new World Champions!

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 human exploration and whose spirit now flies free, unbound by gravity.  

Baumgartner’s determination to set his own unique flight path thrust skydiving into global newsfeeds and helped air sports go viral through his bold, imaginative – and meticulously planned – feats.

The skies over Wieselburg in Austria will play host to a colourful and vibrant arena from 16-23 August 2025, as top pilots from 22 nations put their skill and strategy to the test in the 23rd FAI European Hot Air Balloon Championship.

The upcoming 2025 FAI F3K World Championships for Model Gliders – taking place from 26 July to 2 August in Tarp, Germany – will feature the first-ever Female Individual World Champion title in the history of the F3K class, marking a milestone in gender recognition. The event also represents the first time Germany has hosted the F3K class of aeromodelling at world championship level.

Have you been entranced by the beautiful colours and graceful flights of hot air balloons, but wondered how an aircraft with no way of steering can enter a competition? You are not alone!

National, Continental and World Hot Air Balloon Championship events bring together top pilots who battle it out to complete the challenging competition tasks and gain enough points to make it to the podium. But what makes a pilot stand out from the crowd, how does scoring work, and exactly how do you become a champion in this air sport?