During the last year the Commission?s time has been principally devoted to expanding and improving their proposals for World Air Games, Turin.

The Delegates unanimously agreed to change the venue for the Plenary Meeting from the usual visit to Lausanne to Turin where the Commission was very well received by the City of Collegno and the World Air Games Organising Body. Their hospitality was outstanding. More importantly the close working relationship between all parties resulted in clear understanding and joint co-operation at an early stage.

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Pictures from the 13th World Helicopter Championships 2008 can be found on the website of the german helicopter club.

Click on the link below to open the media gallery.

Day 1 - Opening Ceremony at the airfield Eisenach

Day 2 - Precision Hover Flying

Day 3 - Slalom

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The final results of the 13th World Helicopter Champions 2008 in Eisenach, Germany can be downloaded from the website of the german helicopter club.

The results are provided as PDF-Downloads.

Final results - overall

Final results precision hover flying - day 1 of the event

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Successful precision hover flying in heavy wind conditions

EC120 Hover ParcoursThe first competition, called precision hover flying, took place yesterday at Eisenach-Kindel airfield in Germany as the first part of the 13th World Helicopter Championships. It was a successful competition in heavy wind conditions.

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The 13th World Helicopter Championships in Eisenach, Germany, was officially openend yesterday evening with the greetings of the FAI-CIG President David Hamilton and the greetings of the prime minister of the Free State of Thuringia.

The president of Honor, Alfred-Pierre Herbert translated the greetings into german for the guests.

The opening ceremony was located at Eisenach-Kindel airfield in front of more than 25 Helicopters on a sunny day, surrounded by strong winds up to 32 knots.

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The 13th FAI World Helicopter Championship will begin officially with the opening ceremony on 13th of August 2008, at 19:00pm (local time) at Eisenach-Kindel airport, Germany.

The main events will take place from Thursday to Sunday, beginning with precision flying at 08:30 am thursday morning.

The offical program highlights are:

Wednesday, 13th August 19:00 pm - opening ceremony
Thursday, 14th August 08:30 am - precision flight
Friday, 15th August 10:00 am - navigation flight
Saturday, 16th August 10:00 am - slalom flight

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It is with great sadness and deep regret that I have been informed that Richard was involved in an aviation accident on 14th July 2008 (French National Holiday).

Richard was President of the Commission and an organiser of helicopter events including the World Championship in Chantilly, France.

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One Hundred years ago on 13th November 1907 Paul Cornu of France completed the first free flight in a helicopter. He built his helicopter using two counter rotating 6m rotors driven by a 24hp Antoinette engine. Paul reached an altitude of 0.3m and remained airborne for 20 seconds. Congratulations to our French predecessors.

CIG President David Hamilton congratulates Jennifer Murray and Colin Bodill both of the UK for the ratification of their Speed over both earth's poles world record. The crew are to be heartily congratulated on this record.

The local press in Germany followed an invitation of CIG president Mr. David Hamilton and the German Helicopter Club to visit the event of the Open German Helicopter Championships in Eisenach, Germany.

The German Helicopter Club, represented by Mr. Pit Schöffler, held a presentation about the upcoming event and gave an overview about the competition.

The reporters had the opportunity to ask questions about the event. Mainly they were interested in the media events like Fender Rigging, Slalom, Postman, Hover flights.

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