Last week at ExCel there was an event called DSEi which attracted the world to what was pretty much the whole of the exhibition centre. Plenty of people there attracted by the easy transport, large under cover car parking and hotels.
It remains to be seen whether Helitech attracts as many helicopters to its static park as DSEi. They had only military stuff of course .... a US Chinook Sea King, Apache, Puma and Merlin and there were other on ship assets including a Lynx on the Iron Duke and some Meggitt drones on one of the other six ships of the line. Most of the big stuff inside related to ground vehicles but there were some drones and anti-drone systems.
Helitech is of course smaller, 1-2 halls, and has aviation only as its theme. Lots of knockers for this event but you clearly have not tried the Dubai Helishow. Just the place if you want to buy paintings, carpets and antiques or go horse racing
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