Flyer took off from a rail, and in later flights would sometimes employ a catapult. An editorial in the 2013 edition of Jane's All the World's Aircraft supported...

the Wrights used a catapult to assist most takeoffs of their 1904 and 1905 airplanes. The Santos-Dumont 14-bis did not use a catapult and ran on wheels...

Eugene Bullard, flew with regular French Aéronautique Militaire escadrilles. By April 1917, the Aéronautique Militaire had 2,870 aircraft with 60 fighter...

aviation records, which are registered and acknowledged by the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale.[citation needed] Georgy Mikhailovich Beriev founded the...

American Wright brothers flights in 1903 are recognized by the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI), the standard-setting and record-keeping body for...

nationale des constructions aéronautiques du Midi (SNCAM), which was formed in 1937 when Dewoitine's Société Aéronautique Française was nationalised,...

1000km diplomas". 5 October 2017. Retrieved 24 May 2019. The Fédération Aéronautique Internationale Hang Gliding Diploma (2006) for the invention of the modern...

Mustin successfully tested the concept of the catapult launch in August 1912, and in 1915 made the first catapult launching from a ship underway. The first...

940 km/h), aided by the upper-level westerly winds, to set a Fédération Aéronautique Internationale record. The P-80B prototype, modified as a racer and designated...

recordkeeping body, and the first of their kind recognised by the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale. Santos-Dumont is a national hero in Brazil, where it...