While much of Europe seems to have been suffering poor weather, conditions have been booming in the north.
On 18 May 2008 top Danish pilot, Morten Olesen, took off from the towing site of Skivum in northern Jutland. Three hours later he had covered 111.6 km to Horsens in the southern part of Jutland. This is the longest flight flown in a paraglider in Denmark ever. The former record of 98km was in the hands of Lars Bo Johansen.
A week or so later, on Monday 26 May, Fredrik Lindholm and Pål Rögnoy Hammar, took off from their local site of Hummeln, Åre, Sweden and landed 240 km later after a 7.5 hour flight in very nice conditions, smashing the Swedish record.
Locals had been talking about and planning such a flight for years, and on Monday it all came together. Locals pilots are now buzzing as this was deemed “not an exceptionally good day”, so a 300 km flight from Åre is not thought impossible.
Congratulations on all of these exceptional flights!
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