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Records & Achievements
01 Nov 2018

Ninety-year anniversary of the longest standing FAI records set by airship pilot Dr Hugo Eckener

Events
01 Oct 2018

Poland 2 navigates to success in thrilling 62nd Gordon Bennett Cup

Events
28 Sep 2018

Follow the progress of the 20 gas balloons in the 62nd Coupe Aéronautique Gordon Bennett

Events
25 Sep 2018

Counting down to the 62nd Coupe Aeronautique Gordon Bennett

British pilot Bareford victorious at 23rd FAI World Hot Air Balloon Championship

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Great news air sports fans! We have a brand new FAI Hot Air Balloon World Champion: the British pilot Dominic Bareford.

The young Briton took on a huge field of the best balloonists in the world to finish in first place at the 23rd FAI World Hot Air Balloon Championship in Groß Siegharts in Austria.

He was joined on the podium by Stefan Zeberli of Switzerland in silver medal position, and Russia's Sergey Latypov in third place.

Records & Achievements
17 Aug 2018

Forty years since Ben Abruzzo’s historic Atlantic crossing in a balloon

10 years ago today: balloonist Pauline Baker set two FAI World Records with her impressive 4272m flight

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Today, marks the 10th anniversary of Pauline Baker's record hot air balloon flight. On 24 January 2008, the Irish pilot broke the female altitude FAI World Records in class AX-03 (Hot-air balloons: 400 to 600 m³) and AX-04 (Hot-air balloons: 600 to 900 m³) after taking off from Mondovi (ITA) and reaching the altitude of 4272m. The records are still standing.