Night in Chonqing

Yesterday we arrivede in Chongqing early afternoon. Our team, two more team, some camera peolpe was taken arround in Chongqing for sighseeing and some shopping. We stayed for a while sitting at the big wide stairs with a view over where Jialing river crossed in to the Yangtze river. You can cleary see the difference between the more green water compared to the more brown water. Watching the sunset it just got more and more beautiful with all lights from the town and bridges becoming stronger.

 

Dinner was hot pot, a traditional chinese dish, where you litterally have a boiling pot in the middle of the table full of spices. All side dishes is raw, and you put them in for boiling ad then pic them up after a few minutes. Really tasty and it gets stronger the longer the spices is boilded. What you choose to pic up from the hot pot you dip in in a mix of sesame oil, garlic, salt ad vinegear.

 

I'll send some pictures later, now I will go downtown to find som stuff for my big camera!

Bit later! Hella

 

Towards Chongqing again

Yesterday was a long day. All airplanes had to be packed into the containers so the transport could leave last night. We where worked from 8 am to 10 pm, had both lunch and dinner at the hangar. It pretty fun to disassamble the aircrafts! Interesting to see how is's build up and it's a lot of planning to fit everything into our 2 containers! I love the team, we had such a great time, many times we where laughing so we barely could stand up... To finnish a bit crazy, me, Emma and Magnus when with Hot Air Balloon Frank for a ride on the BMW motorcycle with a side-car back to the hotell! So late at night the streets is empty, during the days the streets are full of cars, busses, people, dogs... And the rules is left-right-me first-beep beep!

 

When we came back it was really nice with a shower to get rid of oil and dirt... We all met up in Stones room to celebrate our good work with a cold bear and watching photos and videos from the past days.

 

Today we pack our bags to leave Lian Ping to go back to Chonqing for a night. Tomorrow we will fly to Xi'an to unpack the aircrafts for next show.

 

The photos is by Emma Alexson, thnx hun! :)

Some photos!

A few photos from the airshow, our hotel, the banquet and from today when we started the disambling of the airplanes :)

Morning after the banquet...

Yesterdays banquet was fab! We enjoyed our dinner with chinese performances on the stage, such as dancers, live music and more. On big screens they showed videos from the airshow days. Beleive it or not, but the chinese knows how to party... Everybody from the organization and other teams came to Gambei! (Sheers!) with us :)

They quickly got.... overexcited ;) We sang swedish songs that was really appreciated so the cameraman had us to sing the songs again for the camera! It was a funny night with laughing laughing laughing! :)

The party continued in a party room, here they dont have a open bar, you have a room of your own friends. We sang songs to the karaoke (the only music there was) for hours.

 

We slept longer this morning to leave soon (9 am) to the airport and start to disamble the airplanes. So now Im off! Bit later!

Last day at Chongqing Airshow was a success!

The weather was great! Warm and sunny! All teams performance was great our wingwalking a great pleasure!

Jacob flew airobatic with Python with my GoPro camera in the cockpit facing backbards, we got SO COOL video!!

 

Now I have to run for a shower, gotta be in dress and high heels at the banquette in less than half an hour!

//H

Airshow day 3!

I just came back from breakfast and will leave in a couple of minutes to the last showday. Weather is the  best so far, and if we are lucky it might be some sunshine today :)

I want to say HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my mum Eva, she the best mum you can have! I know you will read this so have a great day!!

Lots of love, Hella :)

A rainy airshow, day 2

The rain keeps falling but the show must go on... and today all team fighted the rain again and flew! It rained more than yesterday and we though at first we should make our wingwalking display shorter to not suffer to much pain from the rain. For me starting at top wing, I can choose to use more positions facing backwards to escape the raindrops. Harder for Emma to be between the wings all the time. It was slippery to get down from the top and out between the wings. I was very careful and had to hold on a bit harder.

Today we could taxi back to the hangar right after landing instead of taxi for display for the crowd. We were both soaking wet and frosen, but happy! Big hiiive fiiive and then we kept playing cats for the cameras and dancing around to get heat up :) Being so wet, you stop caring about it. It's more fun to see the happiness in the kids and the people around us, who was gathering around us for photographing!

 

Jacob flew his Pitts Python at the end of the show, and did manoveurs you dont believe with your own eyes, the crowd was amazed!

Thanks to everybody for another great day! ..in the rain ;)

 

xxx Hella

3 Skycats

Jenny, Emma and Hella.

Presenting Skycats/Scandinavian Airshow at Chongqing Airshow 2010.

More about Scandinavian Airshow: airshow.se

In supercat position

 

Chines cow

A curious chinese cow walking who lives on the field we are flying above! :O