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Competition aerobatics is an air sport in which ground-based judges rate the skill of pilots performing aerobatic flying. It is practised in both piston-powered single-engine airplanes and also gliders.
The World Gliding Championships (WGC) is a gliding competition held roughly every two years by the FAI Gliding Commission. The dates are not always exactly two years apart, often because the contests are always held in the summer in either the Southern Hemisphere or Northern Hemisphere.
Péter Besenyei is a Hungarian aerobatics pilot and world champion air racer.
The European Gliding Championships is a gliding competition held every two years.
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Sergey Stanislavovich Rakhmanin is a Russian powered and glider aerobatic pilot and flight instructor.
Svetlana Vladimirovna Kapanina is a Russian aerobatic pilot.
Jerzy Makula is a Polish pilot who won the FAI World Glider Aerobatic Championships seven times.
Leo Loudenslager was an American aviator. He is one of two aviators to have won seven national aerobatic titles and is one of only three Americans to win the World Aerobatics Championship title.
Markus Feyerabend is a German glider aerobatic pilot.
Mikhail Mamistov, is a Russian powered and glider aerobatic pilot.
Ferenc Tóth is a Hungarian glider aerobatic pilot who won the FAI European Glider Aerobatic Championships 2000, 2006 and 2008, and the FAI World Glider Aerobatic Championships 2003. Furthermore, he won a gold medal at The World Games 2017 in Wroclaw, Poland.
Victor Tchmal was a Russian glider and powered aerobatic pilot.
Olaf Schmidt is a German glider aerobatic pilot.
Sándor Katona is a Hungarian glider aerobatic pilot.
Gene Soucy is an American aerobatics pilot. The son of 2 pilots, he would wash airplanes at a local airport in exchange for flight time while growing up in Kentucky. He soloed in a glider at age 14, and in a regular airplane at 16.
Matthias Dolderer is a German professional race pilot. He is the 2016 champion of the Red Bull Air Race.
Martin Šonka is a Czech aerobatics (unlimited) and a former fighter pilot in the Czech Air Force. He has raced in Red Bull Air Race World Championship since 2010, becoming the World Champion in the 2018 Red Bull Air Race World Championship season.
Luca Bertossio is an Italian aerobatics pilot performing glider aerobatics as competitor for the Italian National Glider Aerobatic Team and as a professional Airshow pilot and Flight Instructor.
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- ↑ "FAI aerobatics: pilot profile of Alexander Panferov" . Retrieved 2008-01-11.[ permanent dead link ]
