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Slam dunk from the sky – how basketball merged with aviation in Poland

13 August 2025 Kacper Kolibowski

Two Polish athletes, Piotr ´Grabo´ Grabowski – FIBA 3×3 World Champion in slam dunks, and Łukasz Czepiela – aerobatic pilot and winner of the 2018 Red Bull Air Race Challenger Cup, teamed up to perform […]

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Sebastián Álvarez breaks three major world records with single wingsuit flight

9 April 2025 Kacper Kolibowski

On the penultimate weekend of March, wingsuit pilot Sebastián ‘Ardilla’ Álvarez broke three world records by a considerable margin as part of the Red Bull Starman mission. With his most recent stunt, the Chilean athlete […]

DREAMERS AND DOERS

Dario Costa performs world-first flight along the Streif in Kitzbühel

29 January 2025 Kacper Kolibowski

On 23rd January 2025, the Italian aerobatic and stunt pilot Dario Costa pushed the boundaries of aviation once again, when he flew his Zivko Edge 540 aerobatic aeroplane at a top speed of 350 kph, […]

DREAMERS AND DOERS

Dutch big-air kitesurfer and Polish pilot perform historic feat in South Africa

22 January 2025 Kacper Kolibowski

On Thursday, 16th January 2025, at Dolphin Beach in Cape Town, extreme big-air kitesurfer Lasse Walker performed a world-first stunt by jumping with a kite in the water over a low-flying aircraft with world-wide-known aerobatic […]

DREAMERS AND DOERS

Austrian wingsuit pilot pushed boundaries of human flight by breaking three new world records

6 November 2024 Kacper Kolibowski

Peter Salzmann is the world-class wingsuit pilot, known for his daring flights and pushing the boundaries of what can be achieved in human flight. On 29th October 2024, he did it once again, by making […]

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Chilean wingsuit flyer made aviation history with world’s first stunt

2 October 2024 Kacper Kolibowski

On 24th September 2024, Sebastián Álvarez, skydiver and wingsuit flyer from Chile, has made aviation history by becoming the first person in the world to make a parachute BASE jump concluded with surfing the world’s […]

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Austrian skydivers flew through Tower Bridge in London

22 May 2024 Kacper Kolibowski

On 12th May 2024, two skydivers from Austria – Marco Fürst and Marco Waltenspiel – went down in history as the first daredevils  to fly with wingsuits through the iconic Tower Bridge on the River […]

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Aerobatic masters and a lot more exciting displays – Aviation Fair 2023

13 March 2024 Jacek Domański

On the last weekend of May 2023, the Pardubice airfield once again hosted the Aviation Fair (Aviatická pouť) air show. It was already the 31st edition of the biggest civilian aviation event in the Czech […]

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    4 August 2025
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