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32nd ICARUS CUP | 22 - 25 September, 2005 | The world’s biggest free flight event in St Hilaire du Touvet - Lumbin (Isère - France). 4 days of festivities, 8000 pilots, 75 000 visitors
| • The famous Masquerade Flights, a contest of hang-glider and paraglider pilots, on Saturday and Sunday
• Icarus
Over 100 air sports exhibitors plus displays of second-hand material for sale
5000m² indoors, 10000m² outdoors
A "must" for all free flight professionals.
Open : Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
• International Free Flight Film Festival
Over 60 film entries on airsports from numerous countries.
Thirty finalist film are projected to the public – ongoing shows Thursday through Sunday.
Awards for best films are presented by the jury at the Saturday evening showing.
• Other programs
- Air shows with top specialists in parachuting, wingsuit, gliding, boomerang, kites...
- Exhibition by the acrobatic team of the French Air Force
- Acrobatic show with hang-gliders and paragliders carrying smoke bombs.
- Speed-gliding : Hang-gliding competition among the world'top competitors
- Glide ratio contest
- A tyrolien cable for testing your own safety parachute
- Free flight museum.
- « Children' outdoor space" : paper plane contest, construction of identified flying objects, make-up up workshop, « garden of wind », gyroscope, bungy trampoline...
- « Turbulences » music festival animated by musician-pilots only.
- Street shows and dancing
- Paper hot air balloons by Brazilian artist Tura.
- Falconry demonstrations
• On the landing zone of Lumbin
- Hot air balloon competition in Lumbin
- An area for ultralights, iniation flights by ultralight and helio, the « Sports Expo » and numerous attractions.
• Novelties for 2005
- 40 years after: a reconstitution of the first paraglider by David Barich, invited by Porcher Sport Industries
- a retrospective of wings that marked the history of paragliding
- the Electroplume 250 -an electric blimp - and its inflatable hangar "the Dome".
- 1000 paper hot air balloons from Brazil launched simultaneously on Friday night
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