Always great to be involved with the air ambulance charities, especially the wonderful team from Yorkshire Air Ambulance.

The brief

The Yorkshire Air Ambulance Charity was looking to find a way of unveiling their state of the art new helicopter to a group of over 100 VIP’s, Sponsors and Supporters.

Challenges

This event required us to design a way of revealing a large helicopter within their purpose built air support unit at Nostell Priory in West Yorkshire, a space not designed for staging events! The main challenge was to install a system of trussing and drape in exactly the correct areas to section off an area  of the hangar large enough  to house the helicopter and also have a separate presentation area and lunch reception.

Solution

Having divided the space into two we had separate areas for the presentations and the helicopter, the spaces being divided along one side with a 15m wide white gauze. The reveal event included:

• Trussing and drape system installed into the aircraft hangar.
• A 15m wide white gauze was used for projecting an opening film and lighting effects.
• The presentation area had stages, a ceremonial red reveal button, presentations displayed on the gauze and plasma screens, and a high quality PA system with an 8 channel radio microphone system.
• A kabuki drop was used to release the gauze and reveal the helicopter.
• Lighting was installed around and under the helicopter to create the wow factor during the reveal.
• The whole event was recorded for use in promotional material.