The FAI European Aerobatic Championship is an aerobatic competition held biennially, alternating with the World Aerobatic Championship.
Aerobatics is the practice of flying maneuvers involving aircraft attitudes that are not used in conventional passenger-carrying flights. The term is a portmanteau of "aerial" and "acrobatics". Aerobatics are performed in aeroplanes and gliders for training, recreation, entertainment, and sport. Additionally, some helicopters, such as the MBB Bo 105, are capable of limited aerobatic manoeuvres. An example of a fully aerobatic helicopter, capable of performing loops and rolls, is the Westland Lynx.
The Fédération aéronautique internationale is the world governing body for air sports, and also stewards definitions regarding human spaceflight. It was founded on 14 October 1905, and is headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland. It maintains world records for aeronautical activities, including ballooning, aeromodeling, and unmanned aerial vehicles (drones), as well as flights into space.
The Aresti Catalog is the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) standards document enumerating the aerobatic manoeuvers permitted in aerobatic competition. Designed by Spanish aviator Colonel José Luis Aresti Aguirre (1919–2003), each figure in the catalog is represented by lines, arrows, geometric shapes and numbers representing the precise form of a manoeuver to be flown.
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.
Sergey Stanislavovich Rakhmanin is a Russian powered and glider aerobatic pilot and flight instructor.
Svetlana Vladimirovna Kapanina is a Russian aerobatic pilot.
Catherine Maunoury is a French 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.
Olaf Schmidt is a German glider aerobatic pilot.
The FAI World Aerobatic Championships (WAC) is a competition in sport aviation organized by CIVA, the aerobatic commission of the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale, the world air sports federation.
Neil Williams (1934–1977) was a Welsh aerobatics pilot.
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.
Rob Holland is a highly accomplished aerobatic pilot from the United States. currently residing in Nashua, New Hampshire. Holland is one of the most decorated aerobatic pilots in U.S. history, with an impressive list of accomplishments that includes multiple championship titles and groundbreaking innovations in the field of aerobatics.
Madelyne Delcroix is a French former champion aviator and aerobatics pilot.
