The FAI World Aerobatic Championships (WAC) is a competition in sport aviation organized by CIVA, the aerobatic commission of the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale, the world air sports federation.

Svetlana Yevgenyevna Savitskaya is a Russian former aviator and Soviet cosmonaut who flew aboard Soyuz T-7 in 1982, becoming the second woman in space. On her 1984 Soyuz T-12 mission she became the first woman to fly to space twice, and the first woman to perform a spacewalk.