Air sports

Air Sports

Highest governing body	Fédération Aéronautique Internationale
Characteristics
Contact	No
Mixed gender	Yes
Presence
Country or region	Worldwide
Olympic	No
World Games	1997 – 2017

The term air sports covers a range of aerial activities such as:

• Aerobatics
• Air Rallies
• Aeromodelling
• Air racing
• Ballooning
• Drone racing
• General aviation
• Gliding
• Hang gliding
• Human powered aircraft
• Parachuting
• Paragliding
• Power Kites

The sports inserted above are governed internationally by Fédération Aéronautique Internationale and at the national level by aero clubs such as the National Aeronautics Association and the Royal Aero Club. The FAI web site contains lists of these national organizations. In some of the categories listed above are lightweight classes which can be alternatively grouped as Ultralight aviation.

Other aerial activities are not governed by the FAI rules

• Wingsuit flying
• Rocket Racing League is an attempt to create a new airsport

See also

• Airsport, a Czech aircraft manufacturer
• World Air Games

External links

• Fédération Aéronautique Internationale