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The World Air League, based in Houston, Texas, is launching an extraordinary program of racing lighter-than-airships in an aviation record setting flight around the world.  Partnered with UNESCO World Heritage Centre, the union will bring to the world an historic, epic venture featuring zeppelins, dirigibles, blimps - all of which are considered lighter than air, an efficient and green form of aviation travel.

This will be the largest cultural, sports & entertainment event ever seen by the greatest number of live spectators in all of history.

Starting a series of sixteen races from the Greenwich Prime Meridian, the World Sky Race will circumnavigate the globe, and NASA Johnson Space Center will be among the incredible sites selected to host these magnificient skyships. The race route covers major metropolitan areas on five continents and will fly over more than130 World Heritage sites. The Monumental Icons of the world, ancient & modern, will host the participants of the World Sky Race. Included on the race course are:

• Starting on the Greenwich Prime Meridian in front of the Atomic Clock

• Big Ben, Houses of Parliament and London Bridge

• Roman Coliseum

• Great Pyramids of Giza

• Taj Mahal

• Petronas Towers

• Mount Fujiyama

• Kilauea Volcano and Diamond Head

• Golden Gate Bridge

• Teotihuacán Pyramids of the Sun

• NASA Johnson Space Center

“The race will serve to provide sporting excitement and also a means of highlighting the diversity of peoples and places around the world,” stated Francesco Bandarin, Director of UNESCO’s World Heritage Centre. The two organizations have agreed to jointly develop materials and curriculum for global teaching aids on history, geography, and culture. It is expected worldwide that classrooms will use the World Sky Race as a teaching tool.

By competing in and completing all sixteen races, the skyship and team with the fastest cumulative time will be crowned "World Skyship Champion".