DAY ..
13-15.november
2009 - Recap photos
Its become a tradition for me to take photos of
spesific valleys and waterfalls every time I
drive past them. So here are some...
And check out how the snow is lifted in the
"DS-zone" of a snowpile. And that is even when
the top is flat....
Valley is "Buerdalen" and glacier "Buerbreen"
(thanks Geir)
DAY ..
15.november
2009 - Aksdal F3F - Predator
I did not know that the boys were going to have
this years last F3F National Cup but had to
participate for sure. Took out my Predator since
I had not flown that in F3F before. Was on the
edge of ballast in all rounds (started with full
and took out slightly round after round). Had
one round with very bad conditions but was
reasonably lucky with the air and no cuts. Won
the event so a good day for me and my Predator.
We were not many since the weather forecast had
been bad (we waited 6 more guys from the south).
Conditions were 3-9m/s and sunny and rather nice
today compared to the other days. We started
late but did not stop before the sun was low
around 4pm. The last photo shows a cool
Miniellipse that Arild have had for years. It
fits in a Graupner radio box including radio for
travel since all parts are divided in smaller
parts. Cool.
Results are HERE - Just a
small fun
video HERE to show the slope at Aksdal
DAY ..
14.november
2009 - Kobra DS
Forecast was bad but it was not that bad. It was
actually very good with high winds (15-20m/s)
and 11celcius. It did start to rain after a
while but we got some good flying in with record
speeds. I brought my Kobra DS and got a 232mph
but needed a break and broke the elevator horn
in the landing off course. Went down to the car
to fix it and it started raining but went up
again. Rolf Inge got to up his pb to 182mph with
his double carbon light wizard compact which is
a great achievement. The rain stopped again
after the barbeque and I got to fly some serious
conditions. Even though the wind was slightly
off I got 262mph (421,6km/h) and is a personal
best for me and highest in Norway (European
record is 275mph). The rain picked up again and
conditions got sloppy but it was smooth so I had
fun flying low and in the end too low... Smacked
into the ground in 100mph but just smiled
because I had my good new personal best ;)
The new radar Falcon DS worked well for us. One
thing is that one have to fly directly to or
from otherwise you will have low readings and
then suddenly the real ones when you happen to
fly direct to or from the radar. The radar can
be bought at
www.skipmillermodels.com
here is
the video (51mb .wmv) -
Vimeo version HERE
DAY ..
13.november
2009 - Kobra DS
Took the trip over the mountain to fly DS with
the boys in Haugesund. The wind was 20m/s but it
rained and by the time the rain stopped we were
down to 10-12m/s wind. But conditions were
fairly good and I managed 192mph (309km/h) with
my Kobra DS. Rolf Inge managed 173 with his
Wizard Compact (double carbon version) and Arild Møllerhaug 158mph with
his Skymax4 (light F3B version). I used my new radar gun the Falcon
DS from Skipmillermodels.com. Seemed to work
well and it is supposed to go all the way up to
575mph so...
Video HERE (61mb .wmv)
DAY ..
9.november
2009 -
King's Pokal
Thought we were competing for the kings pokal
this year but then it now appears that they have
changed the rules in the middle of the season.
It was only going to large sailplanes (went to
Birger W. Bulukin. Congratulation!!) and
paragliding (that class did not happen this year
so they need to return the pokal). Trying to
find out when model flying will have a chance
again (edit: 2011)
DAY ..
6-7.november
2009 -
Rakfisk
The Mother club and National organisation had
arranged a stand at the festival so I made up a
board, some video and gathered some of my stuff.
Two long days but was fun talking to people and
flying a bit. It is fairly dangerous to fly
among so many people so no fancy flying. Just in
and out mostly with the Joker 2 but I did fly a
lot with the NoLiemit indoor model also. Got
some nice photos that I sold to a local
newspaper also (so airphotos are copyright'ed
please). All
the photos HERE -
A report in Norwegian HERE
DAY ..
1.november
2009 -
Rakfisk
Town is making ready for this winters festival.
They expect around 20-25.000 people and have put
up large tents.
So I took out the Joker2 to have a few photos.
Also took some of the new shopping mould. No sun
but it was for practice anyhow. If I were to go
again I would take the photo of tents from the
other side and shopping mould lower. Low clouds
were cool though ;)
DAY ..
29.october
2009 -
Football
The local football field needed some photos to
show of the new sitting places. And to show of a
ticket place. So I took some photos of the
ticket place and placed it into the photo.
