First Shoday at Chongqing Airshow!

First showday is over! It started with nice weather, it was cloudy but very light and high. Everyone got prepare for flying, we Skycats put our makeup on and then... Then the rain started! It rained heavily and the sky got darker. The opening cermony started as planned with fireworks, then presentating all teams, the organization and also Chinas first astronout!
Then everybody was waiting. Rain capes where handed out to the visitors. Slowly the rain got more gently and first display could start! The rain was on and off during the hole show, we had to delay our wingwalking show. You dont look good after flying trough rain in200- 300 km/hour with uncovered face, everybody who skydives knows... So when it looked more steady and just a few raindrops coming we took off! We were really lucky! We could perform the hole show with loop and barrelrolls! :) (thats when you need most speed).
All planes where placed in a line in front of the crowd for display after flying. Skycats was posing and posing ;) Walking back inside the fence towards the hangar took looong time time, we where shaking hands, playing cats for the children and posing for never ending of photographing!
 
When the show was over for the day, Jacob and technicans had to work some with Python. Me and Sus (catwalk pilot) had a walk on the field taking photos of the cows living next to the runway, actually where we are flying!!
 
Tomorrow is Chinas national day and coming week is a holiday. I can hear firework outside my window, it never seems to stop ;)

Weather is good!! :D

The weather is better than any day before, HOPE it will stay this way! Now Im off for the airshow!

Maggimou, thnx for your comment :) Miss you! <3 <3

Did the upload of the photo yesterday worked out? I cant see the blog myself, just email to it! Cant get into facebook either.... Have a great day everybody! xxx

Day before showday 1!

Today we finally got to do some wingwalking!! Nice too see Liang Ping from above ;) Everything felt very good, nice easy warm up for tomorrow, our first showday! *Pleeeeeaaaase weather be good*

It´s been a long day at the hangar. After the dinner the pilots Jacob and Sus, and me representing the Skycats, went for a meeting about the shows planned schedule and important information about the display area, VIP, public and more.

It will be a loooong day tomorrow too and its late here. So I´ll try to catch some sleep now, and I'll tell you more tomorrow! :) I will try to upload a photo from todays practising, hope it will work this time! (you have to see my new try of gopro mounting!) ;)

Sweet dreams!

 

Miiiaauu! Hella

Me & Emma on Chinese TV News!!

Look at this link! :D

Im so laughing! Hiiiigh Fiiiive Emma! :)

Scandinavian Airshow is the best! :)

 

 http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/_feA3eVTgsc/

 

x Skycat Hella

Ediths Birthday!

When Edit & Jacob came down for breakfast this morning we where all standing in the lobby waiting for her. We sang Happy Birthday in Chinese (at least the first row 3 times), in English and in Swedish! Everybody gave her a bracelet, because we know she love bracelets :)

There was no flying today either, but weather is getting warmer at least ;) Jenny is up on her feet today so we all practised a lot on the airplane, climbing and posing again and again!

The rest of the day was mostly arrengeing for Edits birthday celebration at the evening. We had a dinner at a really nice restaurant, got some pink balloons, a BIG cake and she got a lot of flowers.

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Day of interviuws

After breakfast (that contained mostly dinner food) we headed straight to the airport. Airplane Python was started and sounded nicely :) Unfortunalty Jenny had to stay home cause of sick stomack :(( So me and Emma did some ground practise on our aircraft Catwalk, all safety details over and over, and all positions over and over. The rain kept falling so we hopfully get OK for fying tomorrow!

The afternoon was only interviews with TV shows! Jacob (company owner and pilot) was mostly interviewed and me and Emma was interviewed with our Skycat suits, tail and ears on! We also did lots of posing on the aircraft for the TV and speaking some freshly leared chinese language , it will be seen tomorrow in China!

The magasine is from this week!

(Everybodyknows we are here, yesterday we was shopping and when we came out there was a bunch of curious chinese who looked at us! When we came out they followed us and tried in poor english to ask us questions!)

 

Jenny was better in the evening! So good :) She even could eat some dinner with us! Go girl :)

Tomorrow we will celebrate Edits birtday!

 

Bedtime early tonight! c ya :)

In Liang Ping!

 

We arrived to Liang Ping in perfect time for lunch! We met up with Jacob, Benny & Magnus (Stenis) from the team, who came to Chinabefore us. After a nice lunch we went to the airshow airport to check up the place. We have our own hangar for our 3 airplanes and us. Now its feels a show is getting closer! Cant wait to be flying again!!

The weather is still a bit rainy so we couldnt do so much since the guys done all hard work allready! Tomorrow we will get fuel and if the weather is good, we will fly! *fingers crossed*

Instead we went shopping! Our guides who doesnt leave us alone for a second showed us around. When dinner was served at the hotell we went back and ate and then went downtown again for more shopping! Im supposed to buy NOTHING except a few needed things, but its so crazy sheep I cant resist it! Once shopaholic, always a shopaholic I guess.... I bough new cute shoes, shiny wallet, small party handbag, beautiful thin scarf with embrodery paul frank belt. And this was day one in town....

Now I will go to sleep, tomorrow will hopefully be a long day with lots of flying ;)

The hotel by the way is fab! Havet lived in a nicer 5star before, I got my own 2 beds room. Both bathtub and shower in a luxury bathroom, view over the town. LIKE :)

 

Sweet dreams everybody! xxx Hella

Vieuw from the skybar lounge in Chongqing

Nice isnt it? :)

Chonqing!

After a long flight to Beijing and then a 2½ hour domestic flight to Chongqing our private guide met us at the aisrport and our driver took us too our hotel for the night. Chongqing is a small town in China, it ONLY 18 million people living here!

Arriving at the hotel these tiny nice chinese working at the hotel quickly grabbed our bags to carry them, I bet the bags where heavier than them!

We ate the hotel bufé, it was pretty good. But Chinese food need some days too get used to... For me who is vegetarian since 13 years its a bit diffucult to find more than fruit and sallad. On the bufé you find duck claws, snails, scrimps, lots of seafood and meat in all buns and soups.

After some work at night and a shower I slept well. Morning started with breakfast bufé wich was good, I found yummi bananabread, fresh fruit and eggs. The coffe is... drinkably ;)

Now we are going to the airshow airport, about 2 hours drive. The traffic is heavy and its raining a little, only 22 degrees. Back to u as soon as I can! :)

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Best Regards// Hella


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The journey has started!

I'm off to Arlanda Airport from Uppsala.  I got clothing and gear for  
+35 degrees in China, for -15 in Russia, for work in the hangars, for  
fancy dinners and banquettes, for rough living and outdoor life in  
Mongolia! Cant beleive I fitted it in only 2 bags... Hope I dont have  
to pay for overweight ;)

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Hella Stening

Nordic Babes at Skydive Stockholm

Last weekend Hella participated at Nordic Babes freefly weekend. It was well organized days with lots of tracking jumps and some one-to-one coaching. Thanks to Infinity Freefly for organizing and specially Nina and Boel for very good coaching!

This was sadly my last days at the DZ for this season :((( (But it couldnt end better!)

I hate to pack all my stuff and knowing its a long winter until season starts again.... So I really want to say thanks to all old and new friends for this summer, for a great time, great jumps, great party nights and so many laughs! I miss u all so much allready... And enjoy the rest of the season as much as u can.

Myself, I started to pack my bags for wingwalking shows inChina, then transsiberian railway back trough Mongolia and Russia. I'm leaving on the 23rd of sept, so now it´s full speed getting things in order before take off!

Back in sweden 5th of nov! I'll do my best to update from China :)

Take care! xxx Hella