Like last year to this year's Festival Aéreo Gijón, CAJASTUR, sponsor of the event, managed the installation Collegiate cultural center in the Palace of Revillagigedo, two flying one of them fans from all ages and sexes could test their skills at the controls of a plane.
Flight simulators that were installed in the Collegiate, were running in the morning and afternoon, from Wednesday 22 until Saturday 25 inclusive, while the Circle of the Air Felguera was already publicly available, in the afternoon Tuesday 21. The first Spanish company of engineering and computer science aerospace simulation, INDRA, introduced in the automatic vision Cobra attack helicopter air-ground and design of computer parts for this helicopter with character education for engineers, maintenance of the aircraft. The Circle Air, attended by the former member of the Air Force, and flight engineer pilot as a monitor, placed hundreds of people at the controls of different aircraft, mostly fighter War world to which newcomers were trying to land on visitors own track after the fire escape from a hostile basis. Without certainly was, like last year, a successful presence of the cabin of the aircraft association Felguera.
Accompanying the simulators in the magnificent space of the Collegiate San Juan Bautista Cajastur Cultural Center, Palais Revillagigedo, interensantísima an exhibition was mounted with several scale models 1:10 and 1:15 from the Museum of Aviation and Astronautics from the Air Force in Four Winds, which was presented to the press and authorities by Colonel Alfredo Kindelán, deputy director of the Museum of Aeronautics and Astronautics of the Air Force has in Cuatro Vientos, Madrid. Among the models which can be viewed at the exhibition included the autogiro The Cierva, the F-18, Mirage III-E and three of the planes that attended by both sides in the Civil War as well as other past.
A presentation of the exhibition of models, which gave explanation met Colonel Kindelán, attended by the First Deputy Mayor of Gijón, José Manuel Sariego who came to represent the sponsor and owner of the Collegiate, Cajastur, Director of Institutional Relations Social Affairs, César Menéndez Claverol. After touring the exhibition models of the deputy mayor sat in the cockpit of the simulator Circle Air and was able to drive a Mustang that is more that complicated their task of alderman.
The exhibition of models received in just three days you were open to the public, three thousand nine hundred visits.