Norwegian Hanggliding

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… and a happy new flying year to all readers!

Today it’s a hundred years since the Wright brothers did their first successful sustained flight. They were however cheating with an engine and propeller. Description of the Wright brothers first flight. Any Brazilian will tell you that it was in fact Alberto Santos-Dumont who was the first to achieve sustained heavier than air flight. [...]

We could see some very nice mother of pearl clouds over Oslo yesterday afternoon. These clouds are best seen when the sun is below the horizon, shining on the ice-crystals that make up the cloud. It’s actually a sign of stratospheric mountain wave conditions, where moist air from the trophosphere is pushed up into the [...]

Fredrik and I went back to Sundvollen today, but coming over Sollihøgda it was a quite windy sky ahead. At takeoff it was quite calm, but the wind at height was clearly strong. The sky was full of lenticularis clouds, at Sundvollen that is a sign of very turbulent and strong winds just above takoff. [...]

Friday night it was blowing a gale in Oslo, I did not think it would calm down enought to be flyable Saturday, so I slept long and did not check the weather until 13:00. The sun was shining, and the wind had calmed down and the windtalker reported a nice 4 m/s NW at Sundvollen. [...]

It’s been the normal shitty Oslo weather in the last weeks, with rain, coudbase at 30 meters and generally foggy conditions. In the north the weather have been rather extreme, with strong winds and snow. Airports and roads have been closed in some places. A Dornier turboprop airplane chrashed on the runway in Bodø injuring [...]