Victor Tchmal (30 October 1960 – 14 June 2015) was a Russian

glider Glider may refer to: Aircraft and transport Aircraft * Glider (aircraft), heavier-than-air aircraft primarily intended for unpowered flight ** Glider (sailplane), a rigid-winged glider aircraft with an undercarriage, used in the sport of glidin ...

and powered

aerobatic Aerobatics is the practice of flying maneuvers involving aircraft attitudes that are not used in conventional passenger-carrying flights. The term is a portmanteau of "aerial" and "acrobatics". Aerobatics are performed in aeroplanes and glid ...

pilot.FAI Pilot profile of Victor Chmal
- accessed 2008-03-24 He won the 18th FAI World (Powered) Aerobatic Championships 1996 in Oklahoma City flying a Sukhoi Su-26.FAI World (Powered) Aerobatics Championships
- accessed 2008-03-24 In the 6th

FAI World Glider Aerobatic Championships The World Gliding Championships (WGC) is a gliding competition held every two years or so by the FAI Gliding Commission. The dates are not always exactly two years apart, often because the contests are sometimes held in the summer in the Southern ...

Fayence Fayence (; oc, Faiença) is a commune in the Var department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in Southeastern France. In 2019, it had a population of 5,735. Fayence is one of a series of "perched villages" overlooking the plain between ...

in 1995 he won the team gold medal together with

Mikhail Mamistov Mikhail Mamistov (born 26 April 1961, in Leningrad), is a Russian powered and Gliding, glider Competition aerobatics, aerobatic pilot.

and

Sergey Rakhmanin Sergey Stanislavovich Rakhmanin (russian: Сергей Станиславович Рахманин) (born October 18, 1961 in Karl-Marx-Stadt, Germany) is a Russian powered and glider aerobatic pilot and flight instructor. Powered aerobatic compe ...

. They all flew

Swift S-1 The Swift S-1 is a single seat aerobatic glider manufactured by Polish company Swift Ltd. Design and development Edward Margański, Jerzy Cisowski and Jerzy Makula developed the Swift at Bielsko-Biała from the SZD-21-2b Kobuz 3. The prototyp ...

.6th FAI World Glider Aerobatic Championships
- accessed 2008-02-156th FAI World Glider Aerobatic Championships: overall results
- accessed 2008-02-15

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