Helifest 2019 - wonderful year again
A short summary and competition results

Helifest 2019 closes the gates for this year, but the countdown has started to the next one. Helifest 2019 was even greater, better than in the previous years. Despite the weather, many pilots, even more people attended Helifest, and all competition rounds, demos and programmes were taken in place without any cancellation.

This year Helifest has got new sponsors, new companies. Heli-Professional with soXos helicopters, Tarot joined to the known sponsors, AT Models, Midland Helicopters, SAB and XLPower, Egodrift, Align and Team Mikado, and first time this year the British Hely-Shop became official sponsor of the weekend.

Due to different problems, mostly the gusty weather, we had to watch many crashes, much more than usual. But we got even more amazing demos and flights. One of the most memorable pilot and flight in the competition was the Rachel Plant & Bret Haughton alias Ironman show. It was a great choreography, fantastic idea, beautiful flight. It is hard to raise anyone without offending others, because all flights were amazing. Dunkan Bossion presented his knowledge again, but Marius Gehle had great memorable flights as well. Teams of Soxos, ATModels, SAB, Hely-shop all demonstrated why we love this hobby.

Two premiers happened on the weekend: Tarot 550/600 was presented in action to the public first time in the world at Helifest. Also world first unveiling was the brand new Egodrift 2520HS 1880kV 450 class motor.

The list of overseas pilots attending was also notable: Kyle Dahl, Robin Lipke from Mikado, Raquel Bellot, Gabriele Rovere, Yan Müller from Team soXos, Marius Gehle XLPower/Egodrift, Dunkan Bossion, Filip Ban from SAB.

Charity is part of Helifest every year. People at Helifest have raised £1391 for the "Children with Cancer UK".