Look like the next worlds will be in Hay, Australia. It won by one vote in the Plenary. (Would have been 3 more if both Zupy and me had made it to Romania) Cool for us, cheaper than Florida and nice to get away in the winter to somwhere warm. I just wish the organizers can arrange a grassy field to tow from. I’ve been in Hay 3 times, it’s world class flying when it’s good, but we will lose some days to strong winds. The town is quite small, 150 pilots will fill up.
I’ve got the images from Oz up on the server, but have some work to do on the album script before it’s visible. Should be OK tomorrow.
Also check out Bernies reports from Oz at http://www.telusplanet.net/~bjwinkel
Bjørn Hammer have listed new and existing gliders from the different factories on his homepage. He’s done Wills, Avian, Icaro and Moyes so far. Check it out at http://www.strategy-consulting.no/hg.htm
Just got a call from TollPost speditor, my Brauniger Galileo have returned from service in Germany. Should have it on Monday. I’ll write a review when I have it back and can play with it some more to get all the details right.
I got an email from Moyes that my glider was sent last Tuesday. Should be here next week. I’m keeping my fingers crossed for no damages. Last year it was fine, but two years ago the box had forklift holes and a broken speedbar.
Gordon Rigg took his glider short packed in the luggage from Oz back to UK. When he got it at Heathrow it had a 45 degree bend in it. Both crossbars, leadingedges, keel and A-frame broken. Only thing whole was the speedbar. He took the sail in the suitcase so that was OK. BA charged him AU$1000 for the extra wheight. Hope they pay up for the damages.
This is the new site design for my homepage. As you can see the look have not changed that much, but I’ve done major changes to the software that generates the web-pages. This homepage now runs on b2 weblog software. The old newspro cgi scripts I have been using since 1999 are retired, they worked fine, but b2 is template based and much easier to modify for my needs. (Such as making the site design very simple :-) )
There’s still more stuff to add here, I’ll get a guestbook and the picture albums up again, as well as some more content. Let me know if there’s something you want me to add, or I should change.
The weather in Oslo finally seems to improve a little, the sun is out and the southerlies have gone north (Where else :-?) It would be flyable on Sundvollen but my Litespeed is still on the factory floor in Sydney. Vicki at Moyes emailed me and said it would probably go out on Tuesday, it usually takes a week in shipping and clearing of customs. So If I’m lucky I can fly in two weeks…
Next weekend I’m going to the CIVL plenary meeting in Romania, Tor Erik is the representative, but he is going to Australia, so I step in.
I’ve spent some time updating the wepages for my club, Jetta LSK. Check it out on http://www.ellefsen.net/jetta You’ll find an invitation to Milsluken 2003, the XC open distance competition for hang and paragliders.
Excpect these pages to change form soon, I’m testing out several new systems for dynamic content, so far eZPublisher seems to be the best solution for me, but a little overkill for a homepage/weblog. We’ll see.
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