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Do you know who holds the current world records in your sport, or who holds the largest number of aviation records? Who has gone the highest, fastest, farthest, or with the mostest? Such information is contained in the USA World and National Aviation-Space Records Book, published in Washington, D.C. by the National Aeronautic Association. The people who hold those records all have one thing in common; they captured the record by following a system and procedure recognized and subscribed to around the world. FAI Despite the influences of today's mass communications and the technology available for the instant dispersion of ideas, few things are the same world-wide. Aviation records is one of the exceptions. This happy circumstance developed from a group of forward-looking individuals, among them a representative of the United States, who met in Paris in 1905 and formed the Federation Aeronautique Internationale (FAI). They realized that aircraft were the wave of the future, and a means should be developed to measure aviation's advances. They knew there would soon arise a need for a standard of measurement, one in which claims of performance could be recognized with confidence that a system of rules had been followed.
