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The FAI [ Fédération Aéronautique Internationale ], whose head office is in Switzerland, governs world records in all kinds of air sports a...

For years, I've accompanied efforts aimed at demonstrating that the fabulous phenomenon of hang gliding was born in Grafton NSW. Click t...

There has been a bit of contestation, in recent times, about the question of whether or not John Dickenson 's wing, demonstrated at the ...

While I've been blogging on about interesting subjects such as France's Icarus Cup festival and John Dickenson 's role in the h...

It's not always easy to maintain that an individual named X invented, in the year Y , a phenomenon to be known as Z . In this respect, ...

The Coupe d'Icare [ Icarus Cup ] is an annual air show that takes place about 20 km to the north of Grenoble, in the village of Saint H...

A short video portrait of John Dickenson , who invented the concept of hang gliding in Grafton in 1963, is being aired every evening on regi...

This morning, in a villa on the slopes of the Chartreuse mountain range above Grenoble, I finally met up with a celebrated fellow-Australian...