Coupe icare 2010
The 37th COUPE ICARE will welcome you happily in St Hilaire du Touvet - Lumbin from September 16-19, 2010.
The programme of this great annual international free flying event is, as always, packed with creative, audacious, inspiring, daring, fantastic, thrilling events… loads of colour and laughter… not to even mention pure pleasure of flying!
Les ICARES du CINEMA : 28th International Free Flight Film Festival
Starting Thursday at the south launch.
Air sports on the big screen !
Documentaries, clips, fiction, adventure and exploration films .... long and short features .... pertaining to the themes of air, wind, flight or any of the air sports!
ICARE EXPO : the air sports trade fair
Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday
A Trade Fair uniting over 200 worldwide manufacturers and other enterprises specialized in ultra light air sports des sports: paragliding, paramotor, hang gliding, ULM, sky diving….
Over 5000 m² of trade fair grounds are covered
Thursday : 2:00 – 7:30 p.m. / Friday : 10:00 – 7:30 p.m / Saturday : 10:00 – 21:00 p.m / Sunday : 10:00 – 18:30 p.m
10,000m² outdoor area reserved for second hand equipment: hang gliders, ULM, paramotors…
Second hand Paragliding Stand
New this year:
- Enlarged by 500m²
- A second hand paramotor stand
- The Tyrolean traverse cable to test emergency parachutes is back on the programme.
ICARE SHOW : aerial demos with top specialists
Saturday and Sunday
Aerobatics by top hang glider and paraglider pilots, speed gliding, paraglider drops, speed riding, parachuting, wingsuit, sail plane, ultralight and paramotor demos, girocopters and light helicopters, paragliding spot landing, kites, boomerang, demos by birds of prey…
ICARNAVAL : the famous Masquerade Flights
Saturday and Sunday
A contest of costumed hang glider and paraglider pilots: exciting, hilarious, original, fantastically creative and daring…
ICARE BALLONS
Saturday and Sunday
International meet of dozens of hot air balloons
“Dynabubbles”, dirigibles…
ICARE MOMES : a special area for youngsters
Friday, Saturday and Sunday
- In St Hilaire: paper plane contest, construction of identified flying objects, « wind garden», gyroscope, falconry demonstrations.....
- In Lumbin: area for kites, Icare Cinema for youngsters, modeling workshops…
ICARE FOLIES
Starting Thursday
Paper hot air balloons by Brazilian artist Tura : workshops and launch
Music, street shows and animation
But also : Glide ratio contest, Free flight museum, Inflation race for duelling paragliders, Vol 1807, etc ...
Discover : the Coupe Icare space (Icare laboratory) located at the upper cable car station: films, photos…
ICARE ATTERRO
Friday, Saturday and Sunday
ULM area and demo flights
Demonstrations of radio controlled planes
Kite : exhibition and demonstration area
Initiation flights by ultralight and helicopter
Paragliding lessons for the general public
The Sports Folies : 25 different sports disciplines giving demos
Leisure and outdoor sports trade fair
Great music on Saturday night
The Icares of Cinema: a selection for the young; prize-giving by the Children’s Jury of Lumbin, Saturday morning
Cadence workshops: a fun and sensitive initiation to the realms of health and ecology.
New this year:
• A model aircraft trade fair
• Fly surf demonstrations by top specialists in the field.
• Centennial celebration of the hydroplane’s 1st flight in 1910 by Henri Fabre.
ICARE ECO
-The Coupe Icare event is clean-minded, largely thanks to selective trash cans placed around the entire site by the Aremacs association, and also to the cups on deposit (available at most eating places).
- The Icarenbus offers free shuttles to help cut down on traffic!
- Beginning Thursday, 4 buses are reserved for pilots throughout the 4-day event to insure transportation between the landing and take-off areas.
- 8 additional buses on Saturday and Sunday provide continuous transportation service between
Lumbin and St Hilaire, as well as drop off at the parking lot of La Terrasse
- Reinforced eco-grocery bags (sacs cabas), branded with the Coupe Icare logo
THE OFFICIAL PROGRAMM PUBLISHED
The official program of the Icarus Cup is available in the press-shop with the number of Aérial August.
COUPE ICARE 2010
Once again this year, watercolorist and poster designer, Annick Saint Sabin, invites us into her imaginary world. After the spotted frog, the propeller–fitted hippo comes the well-endowed woman ready to send you in flight.
Downlorad the poster 2010 !
ICARE'S LABORATORY AT THE FUNICULAR
Icare’s Laboratory opened in the spring of 2010 at the upper Funicular station where you are invited to indulge in the mysteries of air, gravity and flight ; and to feed your dreams through projections of Coupe Icare films ; and to discover the history and function of the Funicular… Free entry.
14 IRAQI PILOTS AWAITED AT THE COUPE
They come from Mossoul in central Iraq and share the same passion as we do: to fly. Their present wish is to participate in the Coupe Icare this year.
AN AROUND-THE-WORLD ....
An around-the-world voyage ends with the Coupe Icare : On bord his Kompress helicopter, Matthieu de Quillacq launched on an amazing round the world journey whose last stage is scheduled to end in September, with a touchdown right in the middle of the Coupe Icare!
THE COUPE ICARE GOES TO CHINA
October 2010, the Coupe Icare goes to China, for the World’s Fair of Shanghai 2010. Rendezvous at the Rhône Alpes Pavilion.
SLEEP PEACEFULLY IN A DIOUX
The year, the Dioux will be reserved for pilots who want some serious bedtime peace and quiet. This special zone will be guarded every night to insure uttermost tranquillity.
900 VOLUNTEERS FOR THE COUPE ICARE !
900 volunteers for the Coupe Icare !
Assisting the Coupe Icare.org association, there are 30 partnering associations making for over 900 volunteers who participate in the elaboration of this event! A thousand thanks to all of them for their generous time, energy, enthusiasm and smiles.
DVD COUPE ICARE
DVD : The Coupe Icare 2009 Relive the best, most thrilling moments of the 2009 edition of the Coupe Icare through this DVD that includes a bonus of the most memorable if not outrageous participating costumes between 1987 - 2000 and 2002 - 2009. Price: 15 euros (+2 euros postage fee).
DVD : Legend of the Coupe Icare This 52 minute film by Jacques Bayol recounts the adventure of free flight with numerous unedited images and encounters with pioneers such as Australian John Dickenson, American David Barish, Frenchman Jean-Claude Bétemps and others whose desire to fly began as a wild dream. Price: 15 euros (+2 euros postage fee).
Available through : the COUPE ICARE - Office de Tourisme 38660 St Hilaire du Touvet
tel 04.76.08.33.99 - mail : info@coupe-icare.org
Retrouvez la Coupe Icare 2009, en images