Norwegian Hanggliding

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The weather did not permit much flying on Thursday and Friday. I towed up behind Truls two times on Thursday evening from Spydeberg. It was very wet on the airstrip, but we got a OK tow into some good thermals. I flew into rain on the second tow, and stressed on landing with the wet [...]

Interesting story about a new form of military wingsuits, that will make the soldiers glide in behind enemy lines. Wonder how they are going to land, separate parachute maybe?

At Quest the pilots have had 4 days flying in the worlds so far, conditions have been variable, but good as far as I can read from the blogs. Corinna is leading Womens class 1, Robert Reisinger Class 5, and Manfred Ruhmer leading Class 2. No big suprises so far…
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Check out this kid having some issues with his computer game. Wow…

Quest air have the upcoming Womens and class 2/5 worlds. Corrina wrote to me about her blog that will cover the Worlds. Check it out at http://corinnaflies.blogspot.com/

Saturday was quite windy in Oslo, I did not think it was very good for flying at Trøgstad, and did some shopping instead. I now have garden furniture and a grill (!)
Sunday looked a lot better, I planned a few tasks, including a long goal flight into Sweden at 250km, as it was forecasted westerly [...]

Yesterday we met up at Trøgstad for some Towing practice. I flew the from Spydeberg while Bjørn got the fuel, towing gear and gliders in his car, and Truls met us at the airstrip. It was 90 degrees crosswind on the airstrip, and a little too strong to take off when it was that much [...]

The weather daemons wone 3-0 this weekend at Frya. Rain on Saturday, wind on Saturday, and snow on Monday. I drove up on Sunday morning, but it was way too strong to fly a comp, some freefliers got good soaring late at night, but that was it.
Hedemarken have rescheduled the comp to 20-21/5, I hope [...]