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Orlowski is 2018 European Champion
Alexandre Orlowski beat off a strong challenge from fellow French pilots Louis Vanel and Mikael Brageot to take the European Champion’s title after an excellent unlimited championship at Jindřiuchuv Hradec airfield (LKJH) in the south of the Czech Republic during early September. Inevitably the French Team took the team title by a little over 4 percent, chased by the Russian Team in second and…
2018 World Aerobatic Glider Champions – Ferenc Toth and Jonas Langenegger
In the World Unlimited and Advanced Glider Championships at Zbraslavice in the Czech Republic both categories enjoyed a full five programme event. Ferenc Toth (HUN) finally took the Unlimited title by less than a half percent from Luca Bertossio (ITA) and Moritz Kirchberg (GER), while in the Advanced class Jonas Langenegger (SUI) took the honours by less than a quarter…
World Games Glider Aerobatics completed
Despite a huge thunderstorm that knocked-out just about everything electrical at Szymnow airfield on Sunday, the 4-programme glider aerobatics CIVA / FAI special event at the 2017 World Games has concluded with a very popular win for Ferenc Toth of Hungary, Italian ace Luca Bertossio chasing him home a close second. The full results are as usual on CIVA's results…
CIVA Facebook WORLD AEROBATICS
Launched in 2017 after some close co-operation with Jason Alexander, who ran CIVA’s video documentary team at the World Aerobatic Championship at Malelane in South Africa that year, our Facebook site at WORLD AEROBATICS gives us a well-spread online presence to complement this News website and our dedicated aerobatic championship results info-centre at CIVA Results. This is a great opportunity for…
Video preparations for WAC-17
As part of our preparation for the World Aerobatic Championship this year CIVA has teamed-up with South African media expert Jason Alexander of Red Star Productions with the express aim of making a 30-minute video of the event. The production will feature a strong emphasis from the pilots and judges own viewpoints, as the event progresses from the opening Free Known programme right…
Dmitry Samokhvalov is the 2017 European Advanced Champion
Russia’s Dmitry Samokhvalov was the overall winner at the European Advanced Championship recently held in the Czech Republic at Chotebor by just over 1.1% from Loic Lovicourt of France, with Roman Ovchinnikov of Russia in third place. Dmitri also collected a further set of gold, silver and bronze medals for the individual programmes, other medal positions across all the programmes going…
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