Norwegian Hanggliding

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Olav Opsanger and Olav Lien Olsen have been flying the Florida Ridge and Flytec championships in Florida this easter. Olav Opsanger did well at Quest with 13. place, up from 18. place last year. It was a total of 70 flex wings in the comp. Oleg won, Brett second and Jon Jr. third.
Olav Lien Olsen [...]

Nice clouds over Brasilia today, it’s getting close to the end of the rainy season here. This was at 15:30 local time, earlier today it overdeveloped and rained from some cells.

I had a two day stopover in Rio on my way to Brasilia, Fritz and I went to Pepino beach, to see if it was possible to fly. Fritz had brought his lightweight paraglider and harness, I rented a hangglider and harness from one of the local tandem outfits. They set up the glider, you [...]