Icare Expo
ICARE EXPO : The air sports Trade Fair
ICARE EXPO - THE AIR SPORTS TRADE FAIR
A must for all free flight professionals.
ICARE EXPO – this annual air sports trade fair welcomes major manufacturers and representatives of free flight equipment and aircraft worldwide.
Like the Film Festival, Icare Expo promotes non-motorized air sports with the exception of ultra-lights, paramotors and similar weight-shift or light aircraft.
This year, all 150 stands related to air sports are anxious to welcome you under the giant 5000m2 tent.
Schedule :
Thursday - September 17 : 2:00 – 7:30 p.m.
Friday - September 18 : 10:00 – 7:30 p.m
Saturday - September 19 : 10:00 – 21:00 p.m
Sunday - September 20 : 10:00 – 18:30 p.m
(doors close 15 minutes beforehand)
If you're looking for a good buy :
- Inside the Expo is the 2nd Hand booth for paragliders, organized by the Club St. Hil’Air, where you can leave off a wing to sell over the weekend.
Aside from wings, we also accept safety chutes, instruments and accessories. Although we accept wings that have not undergone a revision, we nevertheless advise on getting a revision shortly beforehand and to furnish a certificate so as to increase all chances for a sale.
Open as of Thursday 2:00 p.m..
Contact : icare2009@clubsthilaire.fr
The traditional 2nd Hand Market held all day Saturday and Sunday, is set up for buying and selling material of all sorts. 10,000 m2 outdoors is reserved for 2nd hang gliders, ultra-lights and paramotors.
Jean Marc Mouligné Prize
The association “Le Cercle de l’Homme Volant” (Circle of the Flying Man), with aid from the specialized press, will for the 3th consecutive year during the Coupe Icare, award a prize of 1000 euros to the year’s most innovative, poetic flying invention, in memory of inventor Jean Marc Mouligné.
Wings for Cuba and Madagascar
This year, four enterprises (Kortel Design for Madagascar, the Circle of the Flying Man for Cuba, Rip Air and Wing Shop, specialists in tuning and verifying wings) teamed up to send equipment to pilots in need in other parts of the world.
If you would like to donate a wing or any other type of flying equipment that you no longer use but that remains in good condition, please kindly leave your donations at the Kortel Design or Rip Air stand during the Coupe Icare. All the equipment collected will be equally divided up and sent either to Cuba or to Madagascar, where it will be redistributed to local flying clubs by the respective flying federations. Wings that predate1995 will not be accepted. In advance we wish to express our sincere gratitude to all those who participate in this project.
Trekking Raffle
Win a wing as well as lots of other prizes from Trekking during the Coupe Icare !
For further information: www.trekking.fr/parapente or better, go right to the Trekking stand.
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...
Download the poster