Norwegian Hanggliding

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We had more NV winds and some difficult conditions. I got sick and did not fly on Tuesday, Arnt and Marcus flew the course we set, and we did some theory and discussions at night.
Yesterday was forecasted to be unstable, and we got thunder and lightning at 12:15 on the takeoff. It rained all [...]

I drove from Oslo at 13:00 on Saturday, picked up Marcus in Helsingborg in Sweden, and 26 hours and some 2000 kilometers later we were in Greifenburg, Austria. The travel was OK, one trying to sleep in the back and one driving. It rained as usual when we came into Austria but it cleared up [...]

On Wednesday I went with Finn and Bobby Bailey to Kongsvinger to fly the Dragonfly. Bobby was here to help Finn get some progress on his plane building project, they got a lot of work done and it only needs some paint and paperwork to fly now. It was NW and windy, so it did [...]

I was trying to archive some letters sendt to me from the US, while cursing the odd sized letter that I had to fold to make it fit inside a plastic sheet I decided to find out what the story was. I came across International standard paper sizes. Interesting read, the “A” format was invented [...]

Yesterday was a very nice day for hanggliding, unfortunately I did not get out to fly. Nils Åge got a 147km flight from Vågå to Brummundal, and the guys at Dokka had very nice flights too. Today the thermal forecast was very good, and weak SE winds. I met up with Bjørn, Petter and [...]

I met up with Bjørn, Alf, Johnny, Petter and Lene at Brandbukampen yesterday afternoon. Alf was there to test his new WillsWing Sport 2. It looked like a nice glider, with slipstream uprights and a profiled speedbar. One sprog on each wing to compensate for fewer lufflines and makes the profile much better performing. Alf [...]

Two days ago Olav and Arnt drove south towards Croatia, they will try to fly as training before the pre-Europeans next week. Originally I was going too, but plans have changed. I will meet Olav and Arnt at Manfred’s course in two weeks.

Tom Lanning is another US based pilot, posting pictures and blogs about flying.

Kevin Carter’s blog is getting better after a slow start. He’s currently in Europe, flying the T2.

Saturday was forecasted to be flyable, but it was quite gray and windy in Oslo when I woke up. I called Bjørn and Alf, none of them wanted to go flying because of the weather. I met up with Ric, a visiting pilot from the states, and picked up the Falcon at Bjørns house. Terje [...]