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Current events

04 Oct
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06 Oct 2024
2024 44th Ljubljana Cup
Krsko - Zadovinek,
SLO
04 Oct
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06 Oct 2024
2024 Namwon World Drone Racing Masters
NamWon-city,
KOR
05 Oct
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06 Oct 2024
2024 32nd Open Ciudad de Valladolid - F2 World Cup
Valladolid,
ESP
05 Oct
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06 Oct 2024
2024 Pyrénées Cup
Saint Ferriol,
FRA
06 Oct
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12 Oct 2024
2024 FAI F3F World Championship for Model Gliders
Limoux,
FRA

FAI World and continental championships (CAT.1)

31 Oct
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03 Nov 2024
2024 FAI World Drone Racing Championship
Hangzhou,
CHN
10 Nov
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15 Nov 2024
2024 FAI F5B World Championship for Electric Model Aircraft
Maricopa, AZ ,
USA

Other FAI-Sanctioned events (CAT.2)

08 Oct
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14 Oct 2024
2024 SIERRA CUP
Lost Hills, California,
USA
08 Oct
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14 Oct 2024
2024 KOTUKU WORLD CUP OF NEW ZEALAND
Lost Hills, CA,
NZL
11 Oct
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13 Oct 2024
2024 Anatolian Free Flight Cup
Ankara,
TUR
12 Oct
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13 Oct 2024
2024 11th OPEN INTERNATIONAL - 3rd IBERIC OPEN - WORD CUP-CONTROL LINE PORTUGAL
Quinta do Conde,
POR
19 Oct
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20 Oct 2024
2024 Galicia Cup
Zhovkva,
UKR
19 Oct
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20 Oct 2024
2024 18° Trofeo 'Città di Capannori' - Memorial "Bruno FIEGL"
Capannori (Lucca),
ITA
19 Oct
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20 Oct 2024
2024 Krka Cup
Sentjernej, Novo mesto,
SLO
20 Oct
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2024
2024 SLO Cup
Sentjernej, Novo mesto,
SLO
24 Oct
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27 Oct 2024
2024 ASFC F9U World Cup Chongqing, China
Chongqing,
CHN
26 Oct
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2024
2024 CZE Cup
Kožlany,
CZE
26 Oct
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2024
2024 F1N Kup Slavonije i Baranje
Osijek,
CRO
26 Oct
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27 Oct 2024
2024 LAMIA OPEN F5J
Lamia,
GRE
27 Oct
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2024
2024 West Bohemian World Cup
Kožlany,
CZE
02 Nov
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2024
2024 Open International F7B Model Airships
Friedrichshafen,
GER
09 Nov
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2024
2024 4. Memorijal Murata Šarkinovića
Zenica,
BIH
14 Nov
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16 Nov 2024
2024 Riyadh Drone Racing World Cup
Riyadh,
KSA
15 Nov
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17 Nov 2024
2024 Intl V&V Gran Canaria
Gran Canaria,
ESP
16 Nov
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2024
FAI Hong Kong Open Drone Racing Championship
Hong Kong,
HKG
16 Nov
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17 Nov 2024
2024 Condor Cup
Santiago,
CHI
24 Nov
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30 Nov 2024
Saudi Arabia Competition For RC Airplanes
RUH,
KSA

Aeromodelling

The FAI Aeromodelling Commission (CIAM) conducts FAI's aeromodelling and spacemodelling activities, in particular World Records and International Competitions.

Aeromodelling, although it did not yet bear that name, predates “full-size” aviation. The greatest pioneers of human flight, from Cayley, Lilienthal, the Wrights and Levavasseur to Blériot, Ferber, Farman and Messerschmitt, initially used model aircraft to test the solutions they were in the process of designing. This just goes to show how long the history of aeromodelling is. Model aircraft contests were organised as early as 1905, designed as entertaining and accessible sideshows inspired by a gradual emergence of powered aeroplanes.

Aeromodelling swiftly gained popularity from the 1930s onwards. Radio control was not yet highly developed – and was not to be so until the 1950s – so it was almost exclusively free flying and control-line aircraft that were used.

Shortly before the Second World War, the first international competitions were organised in England and Germany.

1955 saw the début of aerobatics in competition. The first world championships were held five years later. Model spacecraft were invented in the early 1960s in the United States and the first world championships were held in 1972.

Aeromodelling today is above all the most significant FAI discipline in terms of numbers of flyers: it has been estimated that there are more than a million enthusiasts all over the world. There are now a great many aeromodelling categories, be it for aeroplanes (extensible engines, piston engine, jet engine, electric and even solarpowered engines), seaplanes, gliders, helicopters and space models.

FAI Aeromodelling Commission

CIAM World Cups