{"id":10047,"date":"2018-10-02T12:48:34","date_gmt":"2018-10-02T10:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ojovolador.com\/?p=10047"},"modified":"2018-10-03T13:39:02","modified_gmt":"2018-10-03T11:39:02","slug":"magic-and-color-filled-a-brilliant-45th-coupe-icare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ojovolador.com\/en\/magic-and-color-filled-a-brilliant-45th-coupe-icare\/","title":{"rendered":"Magic and color filled a brilliant 45th Coupe Icare"},"content":{"rendered":"

With high temperatures and the sun shining during the 4 days -with only a few moments of clouds and rain on Friday- the largest event dedicated to our sports in the world, the Coupe Icare, deployed all its splendor to more than 90000 spectators who visited the small alpine village of St Hilaire du Touvet (France) between September 20 and 23.<\/p>\n

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iCarnaval of disguises at the Coupe Icare, the most fun contest of the event. Photo: Bruno Lavit Photograhy \/ Facebook<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Once again, the joyful and carefree style that is trademark of this event left us with a wide mix of emotions, from the pure adrenaline of the Acro shows, the wingsuit jumpers that rushed over the heads of the public at the North takeoff or the awesome display of the airplanes of the French Army, to the laughs and amusement of the iCarnaval of flying disguises or the street performers, not forgetting the beauty and colours of both the huge hot-air balloons in the still morning air and the paper balloons that lighted the skies of St Hilaire in the night. All that, in the incomparable scenery of the Natural Park and mountain range of the Chartreuse, facing the broad valley of Gresivaudan, at the north of Grenoble.<\/p>\n

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BASE jumpers in wingsuits took shouts from the public as they soared at high speeds over their heads. Photo: Instants Sensibles \/ Facebook.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Coupe Icare is also the meeting point for nearly all paraglider and paramotor manufacturers, who present their new products for the coming season at the big trade show. At Ojovolador we had the opportunity to talk to many of them and see what they are working on, we will tell you one by one in separate reports.<\/p>\n

Icares du Cinema<\/strong><\/h4>\n

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The film festival is one of the biggest sub-events of the Coupe Icare, and every year dozens of productions focused on light flight and air are submitted to the contest. This year, the Icares du Cinema celebrated its 36th edition with 91 films in competition, of which 15 were selected for the night projections and 28 for the OFF sessions in the mornings, in the large movie theatre set up next to the South takeoff. Our Ojovolador.com representative, Carmine Panettiere, was a member of the jury who had the difficult task of choosing the best films of this year, which were:<\/p>\n

Golden Icare & Kids Icare:\u00a0BLUTCH<\/strong>, by Nicolas Alliot:<\/p>\n