The TOP Wingsuit flyers from around the globe will get together at Skydive Fyrosity, Overton, NV to compete in the most challenging skydiving competition - Wingsuit Flying.
The sessions of the 111th FAI General Conference were held at the Royal Savoy Hotel in Lausanne, Switzerland, on 26 and 27 October 2017.
More than 100 delegates from Active, Associate Member Countries and International Affiliate Members were present, as well as FAI elected Officers, Presidents of Honour, Companions of Honour, delegates appointed by Presidents of Commissions and Observers.
FAI has launched its new website, offering easier access and an up-to-date design that works on mobile, tablet and desktop.
The address is www.fai.org.
The FAI website now features a cleaner look and a simpler navigation structure, making it easy for all those interested in air sports to keep in touch with what is happening in the competition scene, in world records and more generally in air sports.
Day 2 at the 2nd FAI World Indoor Skydiving Championships was long, hard and packed full of excitement. There are eight championship events here in Laval, Canada – here’s a roundup of what happened during the day.
In the hotly contested 4-Way Formation Skydiving, 15 countries have been battling it out. After completing five rounds on the first day of the comp, they all completed a further four today. The final round is on Sunday 22 October 2017.
They call him The Showman – and for good reason. Russia’s Leonid Volkov, 29, has shaken up the indoor skydiving competition scene since first blasting into it five years ago.
Consistently one of the best performers in his chosen discipline of Freestyle, watching Volkov fly is more like watching a dancer perform, or an actor act. His performance starts outside the tunnel, as he adopts the character he has decided to be.
Indoor Skydiving is spectacularly impressive to watch – especially when the best in the world are competing, like they are this weekend at the 2nd FAI World Indoor Skydiving Championships in Montreal, Canada.
But for the uninitiated, it can look confusing too. Here’s our 60-second guide to understanding Indoor Skydiving.
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, Garnerin reportedly first came up with the concept of a parachute whilst a prisoner in a Hungarian prison during the French Revolution – he was looking for a means of escape.
Melanie Astles (FRA) became the first female pilot to win a Red Bull Air Race when she won the Challenger Class at the Red Bull Air Race in Indianapolis.
The win came after she was fastest in Qualifying on the Saturday. When bad weather meant the racing was cancelled on the Sunday, the results stood and she was declared the winner of there weekend’s racing.
Yoshihide Muroya won the Red Bull Air Race World Championship 2017 after a final afternoon of racing that came down to the wire.
Battling bad weather and windy conditions, the final day’s racing in Indianapolis on Sunday 15 October 2017 saw blow-out after blow-out as pilot after pilot hit pylons, earning themselves three-second penalties.
