Sport is beautiful, but it is not enough. During the past 14 years Haute Voltige has pioneered a system to create public awareness of aerobatic competitions. We are quite proud of what has been achieved as pilots can now secure sponsorship, the World Air Sports Federation (FAI) has raised new sources of income, and new competitions are popping up like mushrooms.

It is now time for us to evolve and fly Haute Voltige to a higher level. Still with the top sportsmen and the competitive input of the FAI World Grand Prix, but honestly, who cares of the best aerobatic pilot in the world if he can only display the same stunts over and over again? We need solo pilots and formation teams with the talent to express their soul, not only their bravado, and to be different each time, not exactly the same, not exactly another one.

Sports and Technique is a necessary approach to offer a spectacular demonstration of what are basically Lines and Angles, Loops and Circles, Rolls and Spins, but they are just a tool to explain the philosophy of Haute Voltige. It is a human adventure, it existed at the origin of our civilisation and it will still be there at the end of its times. This is what we have to demonstrate, this is why we will put more effort to this part of our activity: Art and Culture in the Air. 

We will maintain flying to music, like we have since our first event as this was the original way for Haute Voltige to escape the Daedalus maze. Like Icarus, we will definitely rise above the maze, quite happy to leave the fighting base to the bull, even if we'll have to die each time in the renewal.

Maybe Haute Voltige is not wealthy enough to twinkle like a star right now, but we know the "journey" is more important than the "destination". We have learned a lot about the world of human beings just by flying, listening to the skies and understanding the  language of the birds. Times are changing, the climate too, but we know the origin and the end are part of the acrobatic loop in a simple spiral. This is what ruled humanity since the invention of numbers and alphabets, the straight line and the round curve, the I and the O. This is "Art and Culture in the Air", poetry in action  for Haute Voltige, an alchemy that will take you to discover  a secret of the world that is part of all cultures.

The “Premier” Haute Voltige event will remain at Twin Ring MOTEGI, Japan, on the first week-end of November. We are committed to MOTEGI as it is "two rings", a special location for families, with a name talking to the past as well as the future, because it is  Japan with a mysterious culture between esoteric Tokyo and Kyoto, in the same time so similar, yet so different to the Occident. And, last but not least, because it is Mobilityland, the temple for acrobatic opposites, a dedication to our civilisation of mobility, motor sports aware of environmental issues, human simulators, instant communication of ideas to our brains which are usually  reluctant to changes.
Just remember ... Haute Voltige, MO-TE-GI.