Fédération Aéronautique Internationale
The World Air Sports Federation

“High Flyers” - Table of Contents

Message
by Dr Jacques Rogge, IOC President
Foreword
by Pierre Portmann, FAI President
Preface
by Eilif Ness, FAI President of Honour
The FAI : Role, Functioning and Initiatives at the Dawn of the 21st Century


The FAI : Six Chapters in a Hundred-Year History
- The Call of the Air : Air Sports Before the FAI
- The Origin and Initial Development of the FAI (1905-1914)
- Women and Records : a History
- Air Sports and the Olympic Games : the Dream that Never Came True
- A Question of Space (by Eilif Ness)
- The FAI Disciplines and the World Air Games


Appendices
- Meetings of the FAI General Conference (1905-2005)
- Presidents of the FAI
- Secretaries General of the FAI
- Members of the FAI in 2005
- The FAI Gold Medals (Air and Space)

Acknowledgements

Page 23 - Role and Initiatives of FAI Page 33 - Young Artists Contest
Page 51 - The Pioneers Page 57 - 14 October 1905


Page 97 - The Olympic Dream Page 107 - Olympic Rings (N. Kent & T. Sanders)
Page 148 - World Records Page 149 - Aeromodelling



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224 pages in colour, with 80 photographs and illustrations. Texts in English and French.


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