• The FAI World Aerobatic Championships (WAC) is a competition in sport aviation organized by CIVA (Commission Internationale de Voltige Arienne), the aerobatic...
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  • The FAI European Aerobatic Championship is an aerobatic competition held biennially, alternating with the World Aerobatic Championship. www.fai...
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  • Gliding Championships. World Glider Aerobatic Championships take place each year (every two years until 2011) since 1985 under the auspices of the FAI. They...
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  • 2024 FAI World Glider Aerobatic Championships in Oschatz August 17–24: 2024 FAI World Aerobatic Championships in Zamość September 5–14: 2024 FAI Open European...
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    Svetlana Kapanina (category Aerobatic pilots)
    (FAI). In 2005 she was awarded the Sabiha Gökçen Medal and the Centenary Medal by the FAI. Competition aerobatics FAI World Aerobatic Championships FAI...
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  • (FAI). The IAC was founded in 1970 as an evolution of the EAA's "Precision Flying Division" to provide an organized method for advancing aerobatic skills...
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    simply an Immelmann) is an aerobatic maneuver that results in level flight in the opposite direction at a higher altitude. In World War I aerial combat, an...
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    Aerobatics (redirect from Aerobatic)
    limited aerobatic manoeuvres. An example of a fully aerobatic helicopter, capable of performing loops and rolls, is the Westland Lynx. Most aerobatic manoeuvres...
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    Aerobatic maneuvers are flight paths putting aircraft in unusual attitudes, in air shows, dogfights or competition aerobatics. Aerobatics can be performed...
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  • Leo Loudenslager (category Aerobatic pilots)
    of Sports Editors Competition aerobatics FAI World Aerobatic Championships FAI European Aerobatic Championships Emblen, Frank (1987-08-23). "The Guide:...
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    Aresti Catalog (category Aerobatic competitions)
    Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) standards document enumerating the aerobatic manoeuvers permitted in aerobatic competition. Designed by Spanish...
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    Kermit Weeks (category Aerobatic pilots)
    medal in the FAI World Aerobatic Championships staged in Czechoslovakia. Over the span of a dozen years, he placed in the top three in the world five times...
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  • Jerzy Makula (category Aerobatic pilots)
    Śląska) is a Polish pilot who won the FAI World Glider Aerobatic Championships seven times. He was World Glider Aerobatic Champion in 1985, 1987, 1989, 1991...
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    and inverted, such as Pitts- and Christen Eagle-type high-performance aerobatic aircraft, an alternative spin-recovery technique may effect recovery as...
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  • An aerobatic aircraft is an aerodyne (a heavier-than-air aircraft) used in aerobatics, both for flight exhibitions and aerobatic competitions. Most fall...
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    The split S is an Aerobatic maneuver and an air combat maneuver mostly used to disengage from combat. To execute a split S, the pilot half-rolls his aircraft...
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    Péter Besenyei (category Aerobatic pilots)
    interested in flying when he was a child. From watching 1962 World Aerobatic Championships he decided to become a pilot. At 15 years of age he flew a glider...
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    slips are especially useful when operating pre-1950s training aircraft, aerobatic aircraft such as the Pitts Special or any aircraft with inoperative flaps...
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  • Rob Holland (pilot) (category Aerobatic pilots)
    longitudinal axis. Competition Aerobatics FAI World Aerobatic Championships Aerobatic Maneuver International Aerobatic Club MX Aircraft "Rob Holland Ultimate...
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  • Ladislav Bezák (category Aerobatic pilots)
    Bezák (1932-2018) was a Czechoslovak aerobatic pilot, the first winner of the FAI World Aerobatic Championships in 1960, and first to win the Biancotto...
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    Walter Extra (category Aerobatic pilots)
    in the 1982 World Aerobatic Championships. His aircraft constructions revolutionized the aerobatics flying scene and still dominate world competitions...
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    Van's Aircraft RV-14 (category Aerobatic aircraft)
    The Van's Aircraft RV-14 is an American aerobatic kit aircraft designed by Richard VanGrunsven and produced by Van's Aircraft. It was introduced at AirVenture...
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  • Agricultural College World Archaeological Congress World Association of Copepodologists World Agroforestry Centre FAI World Aerobatic Championships Washington Athletic...
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  • FAI World Grand Prix is a Grand Prix aerobatics series led by Fédération Aéronautique Internationale. From 1990 to 1995, the competition was named as...
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    RAF Silverstone (category Royal Air Force stations of World War II in the United Kingdom)
    2024. "World Aerobatic Championship Concludes In Great Britain". International Aerobatic Club (iac.org). Retrieved 19 September 2024. "25th FAI World Aerobatic...
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  • Charlie Hillard (category Aerobatic pilots)
    International Aerobatic Club Hall of Fame, 1990 ICAS Foundation Air Show Hall of Fame, 1997 Biography portal FAI World Aerobatic Championships Paul Poberezny...
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  • Markus Feyerabend (category Aerobatic pilots)
    2008-01-11 Results of the German Glider Aerobatic Championships 2008 (unlimited)[permanent dead link] - accessed 2008-08-02 FAI aerobatics: pilot profile[permanent...
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    Barrel roll (category Aerobatic maneuvers)
    popularity during the early 1930s. In aviation, the barrel roll is an aerobatic maneuver in which an aircraft performs a helical roll around its relative...
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    War era and other factors, the Swedish cobra was largely unknown to the world until some former Saab 35 and 37 pilots wrote about it years later in books...
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  • Sergey Rakhmanin (category Aerobatic pilots)
    of FAI European Aerobatic Championships in 1999 and FAI World Aerobatic Championships in 2003 and in 2005. He won the bronze medal in the 1995 World Glider...
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