Baptiste Vignes

Baptiste Vignes (1985 to 2022) was a French pilot, instructor and international aerobatics champion. He grew up in Le Havre, took his pilot licence at the Jean-Maridor flying club there and trained as an aerobatic pilot at the Bernay-Saint-Martin flying club in the Eure department. In 2012 he worked as an instructor and aerobatic coach in Dijon and the following year became chief pilot at the recreational flying company Top Gun Voltige. Red Bull recruited him in 2017 to compete in the Red Bull Air Race World Championship, and in 2019 he joined the flight test team at the French aerospace manufacturer Aura Aero. He died in 2022 with a colleague in the crash of an Aura Aero Integral R aerobatic prototype during a test flight.