If you look up in Marrakech this week, there might be a little more happening than usual.
The Marrakech Airshow officially opens today, October 7, bringing aircraft, drones, aerospace technology and some extremely futuristic machines to the city until October 10.
This is the eighth edition of the event, and Morocco’s growing aviation industry is taking centre stage.
Now, before your brain immediately goes to boring conference halls and men in suits talking about supply chains, the actual visual side of this event is much more interesting.
The show brings together aircraft displays, aerospace manufacturers, new technologies and demonstrations, with companies using Marrakech to reveal machinery that looks like it belongs in a video game.
One of this year’s launches comes from INKAS, which is using the event for the regional debut of several security and mobility technologies, including the ANURI unmanned aerial vehicle, basically a drone platform designed for surveillance and other operations.
Morocco has also been steadily building its own aerospace industry over the past years, manufacturing aircraft components and attracting major international companies.
So the Airshow isn’t happening here randomly.
But for everyone who isn’t studying aerospace engineering, there’s a much simpler reason the event deserves attention:
Planes. Huge machines. Drones. Things flying over Marrakech.
Very hard to make that boring.
The Marrakech Airshow runs from October 7 to 10, so expect your feed to suddenly start looking like someone unlocked the aviation expansion pack.
Marrakech really said fashion festivals, cinema festivals and now fighter jets.
