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Fédération Aéronautique Internationale

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The Fédération aéronautique internationale (FAI; The World Air Sports Federation), is the world governing body for air sports. [1]

93 relations: Aéro-Club de France, Aero Club of America, Aero-Club der Schweiz, Aerobatics, Aeronautics, Air sports, Airplane, Airship, Albanian Air Sports Federation, Alberto Santos-Dumont, Aleksandr Vasilyevich Fedotov, Alphonse Pénaud, André Borschberg, Andrei Tupolev, Ann Welch, Australian Sport Aviation Confederation, Balloon (aeronautics), Bertrand Piccard, Breitling Orbiter, Brian Jones (aeronaut), Caproni Ca.161, Charles Lindbergh, Control line, Discus Launch Glider, Einar Enevoldson, Eldon W. Joersz, Electric aircraft, FAI Gliding Commission, FAI Gold Air Medal, FAI World Grand Prix, Fédération Aéronautique Internationale, Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile, Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme, Felix Baumgartner, Flight airspeed record, Flight altitude record, Flight distance record, Free flight (model aircraft), General aviation, Glaser-Dirks DG-500, Glider (sailplane), Gliding, Hang gliding, Henri Mignet, History of human-powered aircraft, Hot air ballooning, Human power, Human spaceflight, International Parachuting Commission, Jabiru Aircraft, ..., Karl Rabeder, Klaus Ohlmann, Lausanne, Leonardo da Vinci, Lilienthal Gliding Medal, List of spaceflight records, Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird, Malcolm Ross (balloonist), Mario Pezzi (aviator), Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25, MIT Daedalus, Model aircraft, Montgolfier brothers, Motor glider, National Aeronautic Association, Parachuting, Paragliding, Paramotor, Paul Tissandier, Polish Aero Club, Prototype, Radio-controlled aircraft, Red Bull Stratos, Rotorcraft, Royal Aero Club, Schempp-Hirth Nimbus-4, Solar energy, Solar Impulse, Spacecraft, Spaceplane, Steve Fossett, STOL, Tiltrotor, Two Eagles Balloon, Ultralight aviation, Unmanned aerial vehicle, Victor Prather, Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer, Vostok (spacecraft), VTOL, Westland Lynx, World Air Games, Yuri Gagarin. Expand index (43 more) »

Aéro-Club de France

The Aéro-Club de France was founded as the Aéro-Club on 20 October 1898 as a society 'to encourage aerial locomotion' by Ernest Archdeacon, Léon Serpollet, Henri de la Valette, Jules Verne and his wife, André Michelin, Albert de Dion, Alberto Santos-Dumont, Henry Deutsch de la Meurthe, and Henry de La Vaulx.

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Aero Club of America

The Aero Club of America was a social club formed in 1905 by Charles Jasper Glidden and Augustus Post, among others, to promote aviation in America.

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Aero-Club der Schweiz

The Aero-Club der Schweiz is Switzerland's national aero club, based in Luzern.

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Aerobatics

Aerobatics (a portmanteau of aerial-acrobatics) is the practice of flying maneuvers involving aircraft attitudes that are not used in normal flight.

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Aeronautics

Aeronautics (from the ancient Greek words ὰήρ āēr, which means "air", and ναυτική nautikē which means "navigation", i.e. "navigation into the air") is the science or art involved with the study, design, and manufacturing of air flight capable machines, and the techniques of operating aircraft and rockets within the atmosphere.

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Air sports

The term air sports covers a range of aerial activities such as.

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Airplane

An airplane or aeroplane (informally plane) is a powered, fixed-wing aircraft that is propelled forward by thrust from a jet engine, propeller or rocket engine.

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Airship

An airship or dirigible balloon is a type of aerostat or lighter-than-air aircraft that can navigate through the air under its own power.

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Albanian Air Sports Federation

Albanian Air Sport Federation (Federata Shqiptare e Aeronautikës) is the governing body for the sport of Air sports in Albania and member of the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI).It was founded in 2010 in Tirana.

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Alberto Santos-Dumont

Alberto Santos-Dumont (20 July 187323 July 1932, usually referred to as simply Santos-Dumont) was a Brazilian inventor and aviation pioneer, one of the very few people to have contributed significantly to the development of both lighter-than-air and heavier-than-air aircraft.

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Aleksandr Vasilyevich Fedotov

Alexander Vasilyevich Fedotov (June 23, 1932, Stalingrad, USSR - April 4, 1984, USSR) was a Soviet test pilot which was- Hero of the Soviet Union, Honored Test Pilot of the USSR, Lenin Prize, Major-General of Aviation.

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Alphonse Pénaud

Alphonse Pénaud (31 May 1850 – 22 October 1880), was a 19th-century French pioneer of aviation design and engineering.

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André Borschberg

André Borschberg FRSGS (born December 13, 1952) is a Swiss entrepreneur, explorer, pilot and speaker.

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Andrei Tupolev

Andrei Nikolayevich Tupolev (Андрей Николаевич Туполев; November 10, 1888 – December 23, 1972) was a pioneering Soviet aircraft designer.

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Ann Welch

Ann Courtenay Welch OBE, née Edmonds, (20 May 1917 – 5 December 2002) was a pilot who received the Gold Air Medal from Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) for her contributions to the development of four air sports - gliding, hang gliding, paragliding and microlight flying.

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Australian Sport Aviation Confederation

Australian Sport Aviation Confederation is the governing body for the sport of Air sports in Australia.

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Balloon (aeronautics)

In aeronautics, a balloon is an unpowered aerostat, which remains aloft or floats due to its buoyancy.

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Bertrand Piccard

Bertrand Piccard FRSGS (born 1 March 1958) is a Swiss psychiatrist and balloonist.

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Breitling Orbiter

Breitling Orbiter was the name of three different Rozière balloons made by the company Cameron Balloons to circumnavigate the globe, named after the sponsor company Breitling.

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Brian Jones (aeronaut)

Brian Jones (born 27 March 1947 in Bristol, England) is an English balloonist.

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Caproni Ca.161

The Caproni Ca.161 was an aircraft built in Italy in 1936, in an attempt to set a new world altitude record.

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Charles Lindbergh

Charles Augustus Lindbergh (February 4, 1902 – August 26, 1974), nicknamed Lucky Lindy, The Lone Eagle, and Slim was an American aviator, military officer, author, inventor, explorer, and environmental activist.

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Control line

Control line (also called U-Control) is a simple and light way of controlling a flying model aircraft.

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Discus Launch Glider

A Discus Launch Glider (DLG) is a radio controlled model sailplane launched using a 'discus launch' in which the glider is held by a wingtip and rotated around the flyer by hand before release.

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Einar Enevoldson

Einar K. Enevoldson (born June 15, 1932, in Seattle, Washington) is the director of the Perlan Project.

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Eldon W. Joersz

Major General Eldon Wayne Joersz (born February 5, 1944) is an American pilot, who jointly holds the World Air Speed Record.

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Electric aircraft

An electric aircraft is an aircraft powered by electric motors.

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FAI Gliding Commission

The International Gliding Commission (IGC) is the international governing body for the sport of gliding.

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FAI Gold Air Medal

The FAI Gold Air Medal was established in 1924 by the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale and was first awarded in 1925.

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FAI World Grand Prix

FAI World Grand Prix is a Grand Prix aerobatics series led by Fédération Aéronautique Internationale.

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Fédération Aéronautique Internationale

The Fédération aéronautique internationale (FAI; The World Air Sports Federation), is the world governing body for air sports.

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Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile

The Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA, English: International Automobile Federation) is an association established as the Association Internationale des Automobile Clubs Reconnus (AIACR, English: 'International Association of Recognized Automobile Clubs') on 20 June 1904 to represent the interests of motoring organisations and motor car users.

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Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme

The Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme (FIM, International Motorcycling Federation) is the global governing/sanctioning body of motorcycle racing.

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Felix Baumgartner

Felix Baumgartner (born 20 April 1969) is an Austrian skydiver, daredevil, and BASE jumper.

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Flight airspeed record

An air speed record is the highest airspeed attained by an aircraft of a particular class.

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Flight altitude record

This listing of flight altitude records are the records set for the highest aeronautical flights conducted in the atmosphere, set since the age of ballooning.

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Flight distance record

This list of flight distance records contains only those set without any mid-air refueling.

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Free flight (model aircraft)

Free flight is the segment of model aviation involving aircraft with no active external control after launch.

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General aviation

General aviation (GA) is all civil aviation operations other than scheduled air services and non-scheduled air transport operations for remuneration or hire.

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Glaser-Dirks DG-500

The Glaser-Dirks DG-500, and later the DG-505, is a two-seat glider of glass-reinforced plastic and carbon fiber reinforced plastic construction, manufactured in the DG Flugzeugbau GmbH in Bruchsal, Germany.

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Glider (sailplane)

A glider or sailplane is a type of glider aircraft used in the leisure activity and sport of gliding.

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Gliding

Gliding is a recreational activity and competitive air sport in which pilots fly unpowered aircraft known as gliders or sailplanes using naturally occurring currents of rising air in the atmosphere to remain airborne.

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Hang gliding

Hang gliding is an air sport or recreational activity in which a pilot flies a light, non-motorised foot-launched heavier-than-air aircraft called a hang glider.

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Henri Mignet

Henri Mignet, (October 19, 1893 – August 31, 1965), was a French radio engineer who became well known as an aircraft designer and builder.

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History of human-powered aircraft

The history of human-powered aircraft (HPA) started in the early twentieth century.

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Hot air ballooning

Hot air ballooning is the activity of flying hot air balloons.

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Human power

Human power is work or energy that is produced from the human body.

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Human spaceflight

Human spaceflight (also referred to as crewed spaceflight or manned spaceflight) is space travel with a crew or passengers aboard the spacecraft.

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International Parachuting Commission

The International Parachuting Commission of the FAI (Fédération Aéronautique Internationale) conducts the FAI's parachuting activities in particular World Records and International Competitions.

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Jabiru Aircraft

Jabiru Aircraft Pty Ltd is an Australian aircraft manufacturer that produces a range of kit- and ready-built civil light aircraft in Bundaberg, Queensland.

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Karl Rabeder

Karl Rabeder (born 1963) is an Austrian businessman who founded the non-profit organization MyMicroCredit in 2009, which aims to reduce poverty in Central and South America.

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Klaus Ohlmann

Klaus Ohlmann (born 1952 in Neustadt, Germany)) is a German glider pilot who has established 36 world records approved by FAI. Among these is the record for a free distance flight with up to 3 turn-points by flying 3,009 km from Chapelco Airport at San Martín de los Andes (Argentina) in a Schempp-Hirth Nimbus 4 DM on 21 January 2003 with his co-pilot Karl Rabeder. He also broke Hans-Werner Grosse's free distance record, which had lasted over 30 years, on 9 January 2003 by a flight of 2,247.6 km in a Schempp-Hirth Nimbus 4 DM at El Calafate in Argentina. On 1 February 2014, he became the first–ever glider pilot to fly over Mount Everest. He is a member of the Mountain Wave Project of the meteorological section of OSTIV. Flying in wave conditions are his forte. Klaus lives in southern France, near Serres, where he has a glider center called, renowned for his guided flights in the area.

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Lausanne

Lausanne (Lausanne Losanna, Losanna) is a city in the French-speaking part of Switzerland, and the capital and biggest city of the canton of Vaud.

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Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (15 April 14522 May 1519), more commonly Leonardo da Vinci or simply Leonardo, was an Italian polymath of the Renaissance, whose areas of interest included invention, painting, sculpting, architecture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history, and cartography.

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Lilienthal Gliding Medal

Lilienthal Gliding Medal – the highest soaring award in the world, established by Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) in 1938 in honor of Otto Lilienthal, a German pioneer of human aviation.

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List of spaceflight records

This is a list of spaceflight records.

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Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird

The Lockheed SR-71 "Blackbird" is a long-range, Mach 3+ strategic reconnaissance aircraft that was operated by the United States Air Force.

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Malcolm Ross (balloonist)

Malcolm David Ross (October 15, 1919 – October 8, 1985) was a captain in the United States Naval Reserve (USNR), an atmospheric scientist, and a balloonist who set several records for altitude and scientific inquiry, with more than 100 hours flight time in gas balloons by 1961.

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Mario Pezzi (aviator)

Mario Pezzi (9 November 1898 – 26 August 1968) was an Italian aviator known worldwide for his flight in which he achieved greater height than any other pilot in a propeller-powered airplane.

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Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25

The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 (Микоян и Гуревич МиГ-25; NATO reporting name: Foxbat) is a supersonic interceptor and reconnaissance aircraft that was among the fastest military aircraft to enter service.

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MIT Daedalus

The MIT Aeronautics and Astronautics Department's Daedalus was a human-powered aircraftJohn McIntyre,, AeroModeller, August 1988 (in files of Royal Aeronautical Society Human Powered Aircraft Group) (accessed Nov. 13 2012) that, on 23 April 1988, flew a distance of 72.4 mi (115.11 km) in 3 hours, 54 minutes, from Iraklion on the island of Crete to the island of Santorini.

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Model aircraft

A model aircraft is a small sized unmanned aircraft or, in the case of a scale model, a replica of an existing or imaginary aircraft.

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Montgolfier brothers

Joseph-Michel Montgolfier (26 August 1740 – 26 June 1810) and Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier (6 January 1745 – 2 August 1799) were paper manufacturers from Annonay, in Ardèche, France best known as inventors of the Montgolfière-style hot air balloon, globe aérostatique.

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Motor glider

A motor glider is a fixed-wing aircraft that can be flown with or without engine power.

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National Aeronautic Association

The National Aeronautic Association of the United States (NAA) is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization and a founding member of the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI).

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Parachuting

Parachuting, or skydiving, is a method of transiting from a high point to Earth with the aid of gravity, involving the control of speed during the descent with the use of a parachute/s.

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Paragliding

Paragliding is the recreational and competitive adventure sport of flying paragliders: lightweight, free-flying, foot-launched glider aircraft with no rigid primary structure.

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Paramotor

Paramotor is the generic name for the harness and propulsive portion of a powered paraglider ("PPG").

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Paul Tissandier

Paul Tissandier (19 February 1881 – 11 March 1945) was a French aviator.

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Polish Aero Club

Aeroklub Polski (AP; Polish Aero Club) is the Polish central association of persons practising air sports or recreational flying.

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Prototype

A prototype is an early sample, model, or release of a product built to test a concept or process or to act as a thing to be replicated or learned from.

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Radio-controlled aircraft

A radio-controlled aircraft (often called RC aircraft or RC plane) is a small flying machine that is controlled remotely by an operator on the ground using a hand-held radio transmitter.

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Red Bull Stratos

Red Bull Stratos was a space diving project involving Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner.

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Rotorcraft

A rotorcraft or rotary-wing aircraft is a heavier-than-air flying machine that uses lift generated by wings, called rotary wings or rotor blades, that revolve around a mast.

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Royal Aero Club

The Royal Aero Club (RAeC) is the national co-ordinating body for Air Sport in the United Kingdom.

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Schempp-Hirth Nimbus-4

The Schempp-Hirth Nimbus-4 is a family of high-performance FAI Open Class gliders designed by Klaus Holighaus and manufactured by Schempp-Hirth Flugzeugbau GmbH in Kirchheim, Germany.

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Solar energy

Solar energy is radiant light and heat from the Sun that is harnessed using a range of ever-evolving technologies such as solar heating, photovoltaics, solar thermal energy, solar architecture, molten salt power plants and artificial photosynthesis.

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Solar Impulse

Solar Impulse is a Swiss long-range experimental solar-powered aircraft project, and also the name of the project's two operational aircraft.

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Spacecraft

A spacecraft is a vehicle or machine designed to fly in outer space.

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Spaceplane

A spaceplane is an aerospace vehicle that operates as an aircraft in Earth's atmosphere, as well as a spacecraft when it is in space.

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Steve Fossett

James Stephen "Steve" Fossett (April 22, 1944 – c. September 3, 2007) was an American businessman and a record-setting aviator, sailor, and adventurer.

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STOL

STOL is an acronym for a short takeoff and landing aircraft, which have short runway requirements for takeoff and landing.

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Tiltrotor

A tiltrotor is an aircraft which generates lift and propulsion by way of one or more powered rotors (sometimes called proprotors) mounted on rotating engine pods or nacelles usually at the ends of a fixed wing or an engine mounted in the fuselage with drive shafts transferring power to rotor assemblies mounted on the wingtips.

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Two Eagles Balloon

The Two Eagles Balloon is a custom balloon designed to break world records.

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Ultralight aviation

Ultralight aviation (called microlight aviation in some countries) is the flying of lightweight, 1- or 2-seat fixed-wing aircraft.

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Unmanned aerial vehicle

An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), commonly known as a drone, is an aircraft without a human pilot aboard.

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Victor Prather

Lieutenant Commander Victor Alonzo Prather Jr. (June 4, 1926 – May 4, 1961) was an American flight surgeon famous for taking part in "Project RAM", a government project to develop the space suit.

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Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer

The Scaled Composites Model 311 Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer (registered N277SF) is an aircraft designed by Burt Rutan in which Steve Fossett flew a solo nonstop airplane flight around the world in 2 days 19 hours and 1 minute (67 hours 1 minute) from February 28 to March 3, 2005.

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Vostok (spacecraft)

The Vostok (Восток, translated as "East") was a type of spacecraft built by the Soviet Union.

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VTOL

A vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft is one that can hover, take off, and land vertically.

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Westland Lynx

The Westland Lynx is a British multi-purpose military helicopter designed and built by Westland Helicopters at its factory in Yeovil.

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World Air Games

The FAI World Air Games (WAG) is an international air sports event organized by Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (World Air Sports Federation - FAI), inspired by the Olympic Games.

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Yuri Gagarin

Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (p; 9 March 1934 – 27 March 1968) was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut.

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References

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