Red Bull Air Race World Championship
The World Championship Air Race is a series of air races sanctioned by the World Air Sports Federation (FAI). Originally established in 2003 as the Red Bull Air Race, and created by Red Bull GmbH, the event involves competitors navigating a challenging obstacle course in the fastest time. Pilots fly individually against the clock and have to complete tight turns through a slalom course consisting of pylons, known as "air gates".
Action at Kemble Airport, Gloucestershire, England in June 2004
2006 champion, Kirby Chambliss, crossing the Quadro in the prescribed knife-edge flight in Perth, 2006
A plane slices through a pylon, resulting in a penalty.
Zivko Edge 540
Air racing is a type of motorsport that involves airplanes or other types of aircraft that compete over a fixed course, with the winner either returning the shortest time, the one to complete it with the most points, or to come closest to a previously estimated time.
T-6 Gold Start passing the finish pylon at the 2014 Reno Air Races
Louis Paulhan in a Farman III at the 1910 Los Angeles International Air Meet at Dominguez Field
Jimmy Doolittle on his Curtiss R3C-2 Racer, the plane in which he won the 1925 Schneider Trophy Race
Start formation Sport Class 2014 Reno Air Races
