ANNOUNCEMENT: the 2024 Icarus Cup will be at Manston Airport, Kent on the 15th-23rd June.
The Icarus Cup is owned by the Royal Aeronautical Society and the first competition was held in 2012 at Lasham airfield. The Icarus Cup is awarded to the winning pilot, who scores the most points across 7 different flying tasks, and prizes of £1000 and £500 go to the 1st and 2nd placed teams.
The aircraft must all be heavier than air and able to be propelled solely by the physical efforts of the pilot. A series of tasks are available and the teams elect to fly as many of these, and as often as they wish in order to score points. These include distance, speed and slalom courses along with the Jacobson figure-of-eight, a highly demanding task completed for the first time in the UK at the 2018 contest by Niall Paterson.
Other challenges included in the competition are part of the series of Kremer Prize tasks, two of which remain to be claimed. See The Kremer Prize in the “more” dropdown menu.
2023 Icarus Cup Results
| Position | Aircraft – Pilot | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | AC 302 – Kit Buchanan | 7953 |
| 2 | AC 302 – Lewis Rawlinson | 7278 |
| 3 | Le Dash – David Massot | 1129 |
| 4 | Le Dash – Tom Stepleton | 1021 |
| 5 | AC 301 – Jesse Van Kuijk | 701 |
| 6 | Le Dash – Greg Thomas | 518 |
| 7 | AC 301 – Alan Blundel | 301 |
| 8 | AC 301 – Bill Brooks | 224 |
| 9 | Le Dash – Rob Petersen | 210 |
| 10 | AC 301 – Dan Griffiths | 210 |
| 11 | Le Dash – Alec Proudfoot | 196 |
| 12 | Lazarus – Niall Paterson | 175 |
| 13 | Le Dash – Mara Jennings | 154 |
| 14 | Le Dash – Jonathan Shubert | 28 |
2023 Aircraft Competition Results
| Position | Aircraft | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | AC 302 | 6228 |
| 2 | Le Dash | 2059 |
| 3 | AC 301 | 701 |
| 4 | Lazarus | 175 |
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