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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…
Mikhail Mamistov – 2017 World Aerobatic Champion
After a closely fought World Aerobatic Championship at Malelane in South Africa, for the third time in his illustrious career Russian pilot Mikhail Mamistov again proved that steady and accurate flying provides the best approach to success. Throughout this gruelling event in temperatures well into the mid 30's the top positions had been shared between only a few pilots, with as…
Roman Ovchinnikov is the 2018 World Advanced Aerobatic Champion
During a week of hot days and occasional thunderstorms at Strejnic Airleid in Romania, in the 13th FAI World Advanced Aerobatic Championship Roman Ovchinnikov (RUS) emerged a worthy winner, with Bastien Le Roux (FRA) and Andrei-Mihai Serbu (ROM) close behind in the silver and bronze medal positions. In the Team classification France took the top slot from runners-up USA and Romania….
WACL signing ceremony in China
Many months of negotiations between CIVA President Nick Buckenham and British and Chinese executives from World Air Carnival Ltd., a UK based company dedicated to mounting a new series of aerobatic "World Air Master" (WAM) and "Formation Aerobatic Challenge" (FAC) tournaments in China, have now culminated in a formal agreement between CIVA and WACL to jointly manage these events. At a ceremony in China…
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