Another week without flying. Saturday it was snowing and raining heavily all day, but today the weather was quite good and the expected snow came in later than predicted. Still, I chose to stay at home and work on a paper for my Ph.D. with deadline on Tuesday.
Magnus Söderqvist, a Swedish hang gliding friend, was out flying today at Lysekil-Rixö. Only a short flight but better than no flight at all. He also filmed and made the video below from todays flying. The other pilot is Tomas Söderqvist.
This video is made by Swedish friend Magnus Söderqvist.
“About the video” from the Swede: Trip to Italy in the summer of 2007. We flew at Monte Cucco, Tri Pizzi, Casteluccio and Levico Terme. Awesome stuff.
As Sweden already is in focus, I thought I should give the few people around the world that do not understand Swedish/Danish/Norwegian a quick into to the Swedish language. If you ever go to Sweden these phrases will save you in case of emergency!
- Hungry? Then say “köttbullar”. This is lumps of minced meat, and is served with mashed potatoes and a horrible thing called “lingonsylt”. This latter is a jam made of lingonberries. It is sold at IKEA if you want to test it before going to Sweden.
- Thirsty? Shout, not say, you must shout “burk”. Burk is Swedish for beer can, and if you are lucky someone will offer you to buy a “burk” of “folk öl”. “Folk öl is a shitty bad tasting 3,5 (volume) % alcohol beer. If you want to get drunk you will need about 36 “burk”s.
- Lonely? Then say “gratis”. This means free/does not cost a thing. Swedes are, well, economical, so if they think that you will give away something for free they will follow you for at least a couple of days.
- Angry? Say that the thing that has made you angry or upset “suger älgballe”. For instance: “Lingonsylt suger älgballe”. Directly translated this means suck a moose’s male genitalia.
- Need to find a lavatory/WC? Say “bajs”. This indicates that you would like to take a crap.
- Horny? Say “tuttar”. This is the name for a pair of things that women have but that men are missing.
Bad weather and no flying here in Norway, at least for me. So caused by lack of anything new to report I might as well share another hang glider video.
The pilot in this video was more than lucky. No point playing the lottery the upcoming year – he spent all his luck saving this situation.
Notice, however, how the camera operator lowers his camera just at the most exciting moment. This is something you will see on almost every video filmed by an amateur. I know I also do this when things heat up; strange reflex.
National team pilot Dag Ring has made a nice photo collage and video from hang gliding in 2007.
Video made by Dag Ring, photo and filming by Dag Ring and Anders Østengen.
Bad weather, late autumn, lack of motivation, and so on. So not much flying. But here is a cool glider video that can help kill some time (source: Ozreport forum).
It is not often that I post paraglider stuff on this site, but this video with flying from Aiguille de Midi is well worth spending + 8 minutes on. It even works well full screen on a 22′. Take a look at the video HERE (double click on the video for full screen).
Source: Frode Halse’s Fridistanse paraglider site. This site is by the way one of the best in the business. Always updated and lots for relevant articles. Kind of a pity that it is not in English.