FAI has granted a Gold Air Medal to Canadian-US inventor Domina Jalbert, whose work on canopies and multi-cell wing type aerial devices was a key to modern paragliding, kiting and sky diving. The award ceremony will take place on December 05, 2019. Domina Jalbert was nominated to this highest FAI award by the proposal of CIVL and IPC.
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In 2019 the IGC, the world's highest authority in the Gliding Sports in the world’s highest aviation authority FAI - Fédération Aéronautique Internationale - will celebrate two Awards, the jubilee of the first Lilienthal Medal for Gliding 1938 given in January 1939 at Paris to Tadeusz Gora (Poland) and the 1995 World Soaring Cup (WSC) a challenge cup initially given by New Zealand competition gliding enthusiasts. In 2018 the IGC Plenary approved a proposal that the WSC would be given annually to the IGC Champion Pilot of the Year. In 2018 the
The achievements of athletes and pilots from across the world of air sports were celebrated last night at the annual FAI Awards Ceremony, held in Luxor, Egypt.
The 2018 ceremony marked the start of the 112th FAI General Conference, the plenary sessions of which take place on 26 and 27 October.
FAI President Frits Brink presented the awards, as well as an “FAI Companions of Honour” Diploma to Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud from Saudi Arabia.
