Norwegian Hanggliding

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Good day again, blue and lift to 2800 meters. 133 km south to the glider airport at Tocumwal. Nils and me got to goal together, Jon came in some time later. My glider was much better today after some adjustments to the tips.
Warming up now with 38 degrees. Forecasted strong winds tomorrow and low chance [...]

Nils having coffee at the pool in the morning.

Good conditions both days, long tasks. I have as usual got a glider that needs work to go straight, made both my flights short.

Arrived, no flying today, too much wind. Gliders look good.
Christmas in Oslo

Christmas in Deniliquin

Otto Baste made an early start to the Oz season, flying with Tove’s XC tour in Dennilliquin. Yesterday he did a new personal best with 301km, north to Ivanhoe. Amazing fligh, landing at 20:30 at night, check out his tracklog. He reported a strong tailwind, blue conditions, and a late start. This is probably the [...]

The official HGFA site for the worlds can be found at http://www.hgfa.asn.au/~worlds/ I find it lacking in both form and content for such an event as the worlds. It says “Under construction” right on the front page, while it’s less than one month before the competition. The site should have been complete 2 years [...]

…until this will be the daily commute to the office.

Anmal Planet has some really good video clips from the back of a soaring eagle. Extremely cool use of high technology. It really shows how similar the HG pilot and soaring bird viewpoints are. If we only had the same control of the wingtips…

The Project Ornithopter will soon be flapping it’s wings. It’s an aeroplane that flaps it’s wings to generate lift and speed, like a bird.
Check out News.com’s article too
It was no flying for me this weekend, we had the annual pre-christmas party in our club in Vågå. It was fun with around 25 pilots there, lots [...]