Icare Landing
Lumbin : landing zone of the Coupe Icare
Situated below St Hilaire du Touvet in the Grésivaudan Valley, Lumbin is the second official site of the Coupe Icare.
Lumbin serves, first and foremost, as the landing area for the Coupe Icare !
Throughout the 3-day event, you can witness hang gliders, paragliders and the likes landing right there in the heart of the Grésivaudan Valley.
The Costume Contest for pilots serves as the highlight of this event, which is full of daring, laughter, amazement and poetry !
As for the numerous aerial shows (aerobatic hang gliding and paragliding, wingsuit, sail plane, free fall ...), they are bound to keep your eyes to the sky all afternoon. They are honestly worth the stiff neck you might suffer later!
Lumbin will also serve as a terrain for hot air balloons; they will show their colours especially mornings and evenings with awe-inspiring collective lift-offs. While in the vicinity you might gawk at the dynabubbles and other surprising dirigibles; watch them stir magically in the early morning mist.…
For several years, ULM or Ultralight motorized aircraft have claimed their stake in Lumbin ; an airstrip, entirely devoted to their special needs, will be the stage of successive presentations, demonstrations and initiation flights.
In the motorized category, you might note that there are helicopter initiation flights too.
Kiting will occupy the same spot in Lumbin where a display zone is set up. Keep your eye out for a whole program of scheduled demos.
Last but not least in Lumbin: radio controlled plane demos. To discover !
COUPE ICARE 2010
37th COUPE ICARE : from 16 to 19 of september, 2010
If you want the 2009 DVD...
Coupe Icare 2009 : A DVD that captures the best moments of the 2009 edition plus a bonus series of the most astonishing costumes from 1987 to 2000 and from 2002 to 2009. Price : 15€ (+2€ postage).
The Coupe Icare Legend: a 52 mn film by Jacques Bayol that recounts the adventure of free flight with a slew of unedited images and testimonies from some of the great pioneers like John Dickenson (Aus), David Barish (USA), Jean-Claude Bétemps (Fr) and others who made the wild dream of free flight come true. Price 15€ (+2€ postage).
Contact : COUPE ICARE - Office de Tourisme 38660 St Hilaire du Touvet
tel 04.76.08.33.99 - mail : info@coupe-icare.org
Coupe Icare 2009, in pictures
Poster of the Coupe Icare 2009...
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