The Side Events: Supporting events to the World Air Games

The Side Events, or rather, all those supporting events connected to the running of the World Air Games, will see the city of Turin fully involved.

Aeroporto Torino-Aeritalia
For the Spectators (pilots, enthusiasts, families, youngsters) an area will be equipped with simulators, exhibitions of aeronautical material. A full series of conferences is also planned, helping to understand the splendid reality of flight, and begin to share the excitement.

So that the Public can fully enjoy the daily competitions, the AIR VILLAGE, open daily from morning to night, will be in operation with restaurants, beer stands, cafès, stands with local products.
In the evening, at the close of the competitions, the Air Village will host the Air Music Festival, with musical events far into the night, inspired by flight, the sky, space.

The City
The city will be dressed overall in aviation: events and related exhibitions will be organised, based on the concepts of Liberty, Space, the Skies.
Museum of Cinema will schedule a series of films on flight and on freedom.
Several city galleries will organise exhibitions linked to the theme of Flight.

Maxiscreens, located in Piazza San Carlo and Piazza Castello, will transmit non-stop what is going on at the contest sites, inserting additional slots on the history of air sports, competition rules, interviews with the athletes etc.

Building airplanes – Construction of two aircraft in front of the public
Two ultralight aircraft will be assembled before the public at a stand in Turin’s most famous piazza: Piazza San Carlo.
Starting from a Kit and working in shifts, enthusiasts and amateur experts from various nations will work night and day to have the aircraft flight-ready during the week.
During the closing ceremony, these aircraft will take to the air, to be subsequently donated to non-profit humanitarian organisations for their own purposes.

Other public activities
Other exhibitions will be organised, such as:

Aircraft self-build work, as an activity for social recovery in the world 
Photographic exhibition and history of self-build projects on the outskirts of mega-cities, in prisons, in communities for ex-drug abusers and in schools.

« Extreme » aircraft and their adventures
The public and the media will have the opportunity to familiarise themselves with unique and exotic flying machines, for example, the reconstruction – perfectly flyable – of the Wright Brothers “Flyer”.

Let’s build something for real
Spectators, and in particular, young people, will be able to build an aircraft for real, under the guidance of expert craftsmen. For example, they will build a real aircraft wing rib in wood and they can take it home as a souvenir of the World Air Games!

Exhibition of several aircraft being self-built
Spectators and the Media will have the opportunity to talk with those building an aeroplane, to listen to their interesting stories, to see their unusual machines close to.

International Techno-Scientific Symposium on "Extreme Aeronautics"
The Symposium will be organised in collaboration with the Politecnico di Torino and will benefit from the presence of some of the world’s top experts at the different meetings. Innovative technology and extreme experimental flight will be discussed.