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Getting ready for the 16th FAI World Helicopter Championship!

The global helicopter community is gearing up for the FAI World Helicopter Championship 2018, which will be held July 23 - 29 in Minsk, Belarus.

To ensure the success of the Championship, the event organiser will draw on experience gained during the Helicopter World Cup 2017, as well as the 27-crew World Championship test-event at which it states that:

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Pushing the limits of aviation: Sergey Ananov

Five years ago on 22 February 2013, Sergey Ananov (RUS) made a "Distance without landing" flight in a Robinson R22 Beta Helicopter of 1232 km (previous record: 1176.79) from Moscow to Ufa (RUS) and a "Distance over a closed circuit" flight of 1062 km (previous record: 1016.20 km) in Moscow; thus breaking the long-held records set by American pilot L. W. Hartwig over five decades ago, more precisely in 1961!