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.
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.
