Catherine Maunoury is a French

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 "aeroplane" and "acrobatics". Aerobatics are performed in aeroplanes and gl ...

pilot. She won the World Aerobatic Championships in 1988 and 2000 in the female category. Only

Svetlana Kapanina Svetlana Vladimirovna Kapanina () is a Russian aerobatic pilot. Biography Kapanina was born on 28 December 1968 in Shchuchinsk, Kokchetav Oblast, Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (now Akmola R ...

won this title more often. In 2005 she was awarded the Centenary Medal by the

Fédération Aéronautique Internationale The World Air Sports Federation (; FAI) is the world governing body for air sports, and also stewards definitions regarding human spaceflight. It was founded on 14 October 1905, and is headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland. It maintains worl ...

.http://www.fai.org/hang_gliding/node/119 - accessed February 2008

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Website of Catherine Maunoury (in French)
Year of birth missing (living people) Living people French aviators Aerobatic pilots French women aviators {{Aviation-bio-stub