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September 22, 2020

International Aerobatic Club (IAC) Update

2020 has been quite the year for the International Aerobatic Club (IAC). The two main annual events we are involved with were cancelled, due to the Covid-19 pandemic. During the EAA’s AirVenture this year, the IAC was planning on celebrating its 50th Anniversary with special displays and archival photos telling our story. We were also planning on a number of forums and presentations that focused on aerobatics, not to mention the sale of new 50th anniversary merchandise in our IAC pavilion on the EAA grounds. Since AirVenture couldn’t be held, the EAA conducted a virtual form of the celebration with...

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September 22, 2020

USPA Board Chooses Albert Berchtold to Succeed Longtime Executive Director Ed Scott

After an eight-month search process, the USPA Board of Directors selected Albert Berchtold, D-27832, as USPA’s next executive director. He will officially take the job on January 1, 2021. Berchtold is currently a marketing manager at Performance Designs, a parachute manufacturer in DeLand, Florida, where he has worked for 14 years. With more than 5,500 jumps, Berchtold is an active skydiver and international competitor who is a member of the current U.S. Canopy Piloting Team that is headed to the next world championships. Until just last year, he was also managing director of the Florida Canopy Piloting Association, a position...

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March 1, 2020

USPA Executive Director, Ed Scott to Retire

U.S. Parachute Association Executive Director Ed Scott will be retiring from USPA at the end of 2020, after 13 years in the position and 24 years with the association. Previously with the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association and the National Association of State Aviation Officials, Scott joined USPA in 1996 as Director of Government Relations before being selected as USPA’s ninth Executive Director in 2007. Over the past 13 years USPA has grown from 30,000 members to 41,000 members while skydiving safety has improved dramatically. In that period, the skydiving fatality rate per 100,000 jumps has fallen from 1.15 to...

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October 13, 2019

Academy of Model Aeronautics Members Claim Guinness World Record

Guinness World Records recently approved the highest altitude remote-controlled (RC) model aircraft flight of 10,607 m (34,800 ft). The record was achieved by Paul Kaup, Jake Minker, Nick Ross, Eric Gordon, Rachel Stark, and Dani Deckert at Spaceport America in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico on October 13, 2019. The team was a part of StratoJourney, a STEM project for students in 6th through 12th grade.

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September 14, 2018

United States Parachute Association News

U.S. Skydiver Wins World Championships! U.S. Parachute Team member Nicholas Batsch has once again earned the title of World Champion of Canopy Piloting after beating out 65 other competitors from around the globe at the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale Canopy Piloting World Championships held in Wroclaw, Poland, in July. Batsch repeated his world champion title, winning the overall gold medal, as well as silver in the speed event and bronze in the distance event. Other U.S. Team members also won big: Curt Bartholomew won gold in the accuracy event and the overall bronze medal, and Justin Price won bronze in the...

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May 1, 2018

United States Parachute Association News

May is Learn to Skydive Month! This May, participating skydiving centers around the country are offering first-timers the chance to learn how to skydive-for free! The U.S. Parachute Association has proclaimed May as “Learn to Skydive Month.” Throughout the month, participating skydiving centers will host “Learn to Skydive for Free” classes, which include the ground-training portion of a first-jump course, the first step toward a solo skydive. U.S. Parachute Association-certified instructor s will teach the course s , which include all the basics for jumping solo. Students will learn about equipment, aircraft, exiting, freefall, how to open and land a...

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March 3, 2018

U.S. National Records for Gliders Presented at the 2018 SSA Awards Banquet

NAA President & CEO, Greg Principato presented two U.S. National Records for Gliders at the 2018 Soaring Society of America (SSA) Awards Banquet in Reno, Nevada on March 3, 2018. Anthony B. Condon II accepted his record certificate for a record performance on May 5, 2017: Class D, Standard, General Straight Distance to a Goal Hutchinson, KS to La Grange, TX Schempp-Hirth Standard Cirrus, N10LA 537.28 miles (864.67 km) James M. Payne and Morgan Sandercock also accepted their record for flight on September 3, 2017: Class DO, Open, Multiplace, General Absolute Altitude El Calafate, Argentina Perlan 2, N901EE 52,221 feet...

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March 1, 2018

Model Aeronautics News

Team USA Wins First Place at 2018 FAI F1D World Championship Senior team member Brett Sanborn won the individual championship and the US team won first place in the team competition at the 2018 FAI F1D World Championship for Indoor Model Aircraft. Pictured are the Senior team winners: USA (first), Romania (second), and the United Kingdom (third). AMA congratulates the event participants, volunteers, National Free Flight Society members, and the West Baden Springs Hotel, in West Baden, IN, for such an outstanding event! For more information, please click here. Celebrate National Model Aviation Day on August 11 Join the Academy...

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February 14, 2018

Turkey Named as the 2020 Host Country for the FAI World Air Games

Turkey will be the official host country for the FAI World Air Games 2020, according to a contract signed on February 14, 2018 by Kursat Atilgan, President of the Turkish FAI Member Türk Hava Kurumu (THK), and Frits Brink, President of the FAI, in Lausanne, Switzerland. Scheduled for September 2020, the Games will take place in some of the most iconic locations in Turkey, with the event split between Ankara, Antalya, Eskisehir, Efes/Selcuk, Ölüdeniz/Fethiye and Pammukale/Honaz. The spectacular Opening Ceremony will take place in Turkey’s cosmopolitan capital city Ankara, while the Closing Ceremony will be in the popular tourist destination...

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